Hmm....and who would be the sponsors of that site?
I use butter, Watkins vanilla and Lindt chocolate.

Welcome Kandm...

I actually like when a blogger does the step by steps with a recipe.

It looks really good.

Did you use eggs or egg substitute?

The Pioneer Woman's blog is one of the better ones around. Have been reading it for over a year.

That is usually called French Silk Chocolate Pie. It is very good but very rich. And it doesn't have the depth of flavor that a baked chocolate pie does. I am not a fan of chocolate pudding type pies.

I agree with Marigene. I also love that blog. Thanks Kandm!
That recipe was already saved in my files, now I will have to hurry up and make it.

Shelley

Linda C.
FYI, Blogs are not sponsored, there is no need for them to be, as they are FREE to anyone wanting one. I've seen this addressed by you in some of the other forums, were you call it "spam". Many, many people right on this site have blogs as well, as you may have seen in a recent post.

And, if a blogger wants to place an ad or links, one click onto an ad may get them 1/4 of a penny & can vary maybe to a full penny. Making a living off of clicks in not what a blogger is after. Food & baking blogs offer & share their recipes to anyone. It's not about being sponsored LOL !

Chiming in here to say how much I loooove that blog -- read it every morning-- and to agree with Verbena that there is certainly no sponsor for it. I don't even think she has any ads on the site, or I couldn't find any since she has the new site design up.

Nice to hear that the pie was delicious! It certainly looks decadent!

Emily

kandm,

What a wonderful web site. Thanks for posting. I'm not through reading but I had to come back & let you know how much I enjoyed the mustangs' pictures (and the cow!).

I was a kid in Nevada & we had wild mustangs. Oh, how I loved those horses. Thank you for bringing back such a wonderful array of memories.

Also, I'm a natural strawberry blonde so I can relate to your "redhead" comments! You are so correct.

OK, I'm going back to your site to read some more...

Oh, the pie looks good too even though I can't eat raw eggs (auto-immune disease).

/tricia

The Pioneer Womans blog has been around for quite some time and I know many, many people (IRL and on BB's) that read it on a daily basis. She's a pretty down to earth cook and her blog is a lot of fun.

Blogs can be set up through a blogging site or through your server. But if you want your own domain name, you pay for it....and you pay for additional bandwidth, which allows you to post more stuff and for people to leave more messages and for you to save them longer. Pioneer woman has her own domain.
Someone has to pay for all that....so unless you are doing it for fun and games and using it for family pictures, you need to advertise.
This is a professional site, she even gives credit to the designer, and has ads by mastercard and a few others and I'll bet that the company that makes Crisco and Bakers chocolate is also a sponsor.
The way you get people to advertise is show lots of hits to your site and "unique visitors". The way you find out about these people (to offer to potential advertisers) is to ask about them and to interact. She has done all these things.
It's a delightful site, but it's commercial, not a blog.

When Spike started this Garden Web site waaaay waaaay back, there were no ads, he asked for donations from people who enjoyed the site and sent a T-shirt to anyone who sent in $15. He ran the Garden Web out of his apartment in New Jersey overlooking the river and very near Rutgers campus.
Eventually the site grew and he bagan selling advertising, people objected like mad, so he sold memberships and eliminated some ads.....and still the site grew! And eventually iVillage became interested and he sold the whole thing to them for $...with lots of zeros!

I have no objection to free enterprise, nor to someone creating a web site and selling advertising, but it's not a blog, it's a web site just like this one is, only smaller, like this one was 11 or 12 years ago.
What I do object is someone coming here and promoting their own website by pretending to have discovered a wonderful new recipe.

Advertising IS...we can't get away from it, it's what pays for our magazines and newspapers, it helps defray the costs of the bus waiting booth and the fence around the ball field, and web sites we like to visit, and in Ree's defense she didn't post the link to her own web site.
Linda C

That's a good post LindaC. I completely agree.

I don't believe kandm is the site owner..but I could be wrong.

HEY, I sent Spike my 15 bucks way back then and never got a free t shirt...bummer...):

I think it was 15.00 bucks for membership and 30.00 for membership with a t-shirt, so Kathleen you didn't get cheated...just so you feel better!

Duae

LindaC --

I must say -- thinking that the company that makes Crisco and Bakers chocolate is a sponsor strikes me as rather cynical, and I think if you read more of the site you might change your mind. She often mentions the fact that she wishes she could get higher quality ingredients -- chocolate, or different parmesan cheese, etc -- but she lives way out in the country and those products aren't readily available at the stores closest to her.

Also, while I agree with your description of the difference between blogs and sites, I believe her site was originally a blog that she expanded so much she moved over to have her own domain name. While her site may not be a formal "blog" anymore, to me it is FAR from commercial.

Emily

I've been reading lots of blogs the last few months and Pioneer Woman's blog site is one I just happened on. I really like what she has done. In fact, I believe she won a blogger award. I don't see where it is at all like GW. It's just her posting from what I saw, not a forum like this is at all.

The world of blogging is growing so fast and there as many types as there are subjects to blog about. There are both commercial and non-commercial blogs. Nothing wrong with either IMO. Internet advertising is growing super fast. More and more advertising dollars are headed toward the Internet and away from print and TV. Blogs are going to keep changing and growing and I bet the ads become even more dominate.

I wonder what will come after blogs...

Nancy

CLOGS...there will be so many of them, the "info highway" will be gridlocked, LOL

Huge fan here! And Emily is right -- the site is so far removed from being a vehicle to promote brand-name products that it's ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

After the introduction to each recipe, Ree always posts a picture entitled "The Cast of Characters". That's the ingredients, in 'raw' form. An egg, a stick of butter, a block of cheese, a loaf of bread, produce, etc., etc. Sometimes, of necessity, the pic includes packaged ingredients -- a boxed cake mix clearly bearing the name "Duncan Hines", a can of "Crisco", a bar of "Hershey" chocolate. As Emily also pointed out, as often as not, the author bemoans the fact that she's so far out in the hinterlands that she just has to buy what's available at her little country store rather than choice ingredients. Does this sound like the work of a shill??

Hey, we all hate spam. And we all hate hucksterism disguised as a legitimate cooking site. This one is neither, and to suggest differently is either total cynicism or total ignorance.

Spend about 15 minutes checking it out, and tell me that I'm wrong. (And if you're as old as I am, I suggest you take a potty break beforehand. Otherwise, you'll laugh so hard at some of her posts that you might have an 'accident'. LOL!)

sm

SM: Speaking of a Potty Break, some people could use a bit more Fibre in their Diets,
so they could have a Potty Break.
Sometimes you can get cross eyed, from pressure and can't see things clearly.
Lou

The decorating forum had a few spammers who had commercial websites disguised as blogs, and the deco advice was all very bland copy and paste articles that were unattractive, the ultimate goal being to link to a site that sold furniture.
The pioneer website/blog is commercial but is so well done and useful and interesting, Kandm can very well come forward and tell us whether she is promoting it or is just one of us sharing a good site.

Bakers and mccormicks are very common supermarket brands; it stands to reason that the fine cooks of this forum would use upgraded versions of those products.

PW is not my blog/website, I am promoting the recipe because I love sharing yummy recipes. I live in coastal Alabama and she is midwest somewhere. I have used this recipe several times, giving slices away, I can now use it as bribery lol.

(I use eggs, not substitutes)

I love her blog, I saw it featured on CNN which is how I found it. It may be commercial but I don't care, she has simple, well illustrated, delicious recipes and I have never tried one I didn't love.

kandm, thanks for the recipe. I love her blog!

kandm, thanks for including the "note" in your reply..I really want to try it and of course the boys and I always eat raw cookie dough, so what's some in a pie...LOL