Snapchat Recipes by Ree

In some ways, I’m no spring chicken. For example, I refuse to wear sleeveless shirts, I sometimes have flare-ups of plantar fasciitis, and my favorite TV show of all time continues to be The Rockford Files. If girls today could only feast their eyes on James Garner…well, they’d see what a real man is!

In other ways, I’m extremely young and exceedingly hip. Case in point: I use Snapchat.

Ha.

It took me awhile to understand the whole Snapchat thing. In fact, for a long time, I seriously didn’t understand it at all, and I took pride in declaring how impossible it was to figure out. After all, I really didn’t need an app that allowed me to communicate with my other elderly friends in a series of quickly-disappearing selfies. Why would I want to send fifty selfies to Hyacinth every day? If we need to talk to each other, we’ll just do what our ancestors have done for generations and send each other regular ol’ text messages.

But then I learned that I could actually use Snapchat to document the things I was cooking on a daily basis, and a BEAST was awakened. And once I started, there was no stopping me—not even when my girls both looked at each other with that “Oh no…Mom’s got Snapchat” look.

Their fears and doubts have only made me stronger!

Here’s the thing about Snapchat: You really don’t worry much about making the photography fabulous. It really is about capturing a moment, and that doesn’t mean using your best lens and making sure the light is hitting your potato just right. It means pointing your phone toward the potato and snapping, no matter what the lighting is like and no matter how many smudges you have your teeny iPhone lens. Production value isn’t what Snapchat is all about—again, it’s just capturing things as they happen.

So if you don’t have Snapchat, you should try it sometime! You might like it. My username is @thepioneerwoman, so if you do use Snapchat, you can follow me to see the fun! I post recipes, but I also post clips of the dogs and the kids and my feet. But only wearing shoes, of course.

Here’s a series of my snaps from yesterday. I had to make a slew of twice baked potatoes for a meeting Marlboro Man has today.

And the cool thing is, you can post video clips on Snapchat too! Here I am demonstrating one of the best tips I’ve ever received. Perfect for corn season!

See you on Snapchat. If you have Snapchat.

If you don’t, I’ll still be here, of course!

Love,

The Super Cool Snapchatting Mom, according to Alex and Paige

(Not really…)