‘Elaine Benes Did Present Up’

One other Fourth of July, one other blowout celebration hosted by Ree Drummond and her household of their hometown of Pawhuska, Okla. 

“It was a candy, candy day (and night time!) in Pawhuska. 🇺🇸❤️,” the Meals Community star wrote on a video montage of the celebrations. “I had increasingly enjoyable because the night time progressed, sadly, and Elaine Benes did finally present up.”

The reference to Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ Seinfeld character pokes enjoyable at Ree’s foolish dance strikes through the celebration. She may be seen dancing with husband Ladd Drummond, and on stage along with her daughter Paige, 24.

Ree’s eldest daughter Alex, 27, shared her personal images from the day, many with friends dressed up in crimson, white and blue.

Ree and Ladd are additionally mother and father to sons Bryce, 21, Jamar, 21 and Todd, 20. 

The July Fourth celebration, hosted by Ree’s retailer and restaurant The Mercantile, is an annual occasion. “The custom began small when the Drummond children have been nonetheless infants, but it surely’s grown right into a full-blown celebration,” Ree wrote in her Pioneer Lady weblog in 2023. 

The yearly bash now options dwell music, meals, video games and hundreds of friends — in 2019, greater than 10,000 folks confirmed up in Pawhuska for the occasion in keeping with Pioneer Lady star.

One other Drummond custom is the fireworks present placed on by Ree’s husband Ladd and his associates. 

“Ladd and the cowboys pulled out all of the stops,” she wrote in a Pioneer Lady recap of the 2021 festivities in Pawhuska. 

This 12 months may have featured just a few totally different colours within the firework present — Ree supplied to let Alex, who’s anticipating her first baby with husband Mauricio Scott, use the fireworks as a option to announce the intercourse of their child. (Alex politely declined and shared an lovable reveal video that includes her Golden Retriever consuming a cupcake.)

The previous couple of years have featured music from The Dry Water Band. Ree posted an Instagram story of herself dancing alongside onstage on Independence Day in 2023.

Certainly one of Ree’s favourite components of the celebration is, in fact, the meals. The Drummond household comes collectively to prepare dinner an enormous barbecue with burgers, sizzling canines and loads of acquainted Pioneer Lady recipes. In 2023, Alex posted a video of the barbecue unfold exhibiting Ree’s Finest Baked Beans Ever, Contemporary Corn Casserole and different favorites. 

However the headlining dish for the annual Fourth of July meal isn’t considered one of Ree’s recipes — it’s Ina Garten’s Flag Cake from Barefoot Contessa Household Model. 

“Ah, what can I say about Barefoot Contessa? I like her. Her recipes are actual, easy, and plentiful… simply the best way I like ’em.” Ree wrote in a Pioneer Lady weblog put up in regards to the blueberry and raspberry-topped cake in Could. “It is one of the vital show-stopping cake recipes you might probably prepare dinner on your 4th of July festivities.”

Ree’s appreciation for all issues Fourth of July is obvious — the Pioneer Lady weblog has a devoted web page stuffed with recipes and different concepts for tips on how to have fun the vacation.

In 2021, Ree additionally highlighted the significance of bringing her children again house for the vacation: “It is good that it doesn’t matter what the youngsters have occurring, they nonetheless love to return house and expertise their hometown on holidays like this.”