The Pioneer Woman

Make-ahead dishes including chicken satay with peanut sauce and a spinach and artichoke dip with salted pita wedges.

It's a few days before Christmas, and Ree is making Christmas goodies to give as gifts. She whips up homemade gumdrops, Christmas cherries, pretzel turtles, cayenne cheese straws and sweet spicy smoky roasted almonds.

It's Ree Drummond and husband Ladd's anniversary, so to celebrate she's cooking a meal for the whole family. She prepares a Colorado wedge salad, prime rib for five with chimichurri and rustic country bread with honey butter.

Ree stocks her kitchen to make some of her favourite meatless meals. She whips up broccoli cheese baked potatoes, grilled aubergine steaks, roasted vegetable panzanella, Italian cornbread and tofu lettuce wraps.

Ree makes dinner for her family after a long, sweltering afternoon of hauling hay at her brother-in-law's house. On the menu is spicy slow cooked ribs, cheesy hominy casserole, broccoli salad and ice cream layer cake.

It's all about stunning five ingredient meals, and on the menu is a chicken fennel bake, spaghetti carbonara, eggs in tomatoes, veggie tortellini soup and three varieties of baking tray suppers.