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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED
Today, I really REALLY wanted to post a fabulous new recipe for you all. That was my plan all week-long, you see. But as luck would have it, my good intentions were rudely interrupted by fact that my kitchen sink simply decided to come unglued from her usual spot and fell right out from under the counter-top leaving me with no running water (or sink!) in my kitchen and 500 dirty dishes just begging to be cleaned.
This is not a joke.
Would I lie to you?
No way, man. I would not.
Good times around here, my friends. After I washed the previously mentioned 500 dishes (give or take 450) in my bathtub during the late night hours, I had a good nights rest and woke up ready and willing to serve my family cheap, five dollar pizza for the duration my small kitchen crisis. (Which should be over in the next 24 hours or so. At least that was the good news given to me today by MyHandsomeHusband aka Repair Man of Wonder).
And so, dear readers, instead of a new recipe for you today I am giving away one of my favorite kitchen appliances of all time.
Isn’t she a beauty!
I would love to give one of you lucky readers a brand spanking new Ninja Kitchen System 1200 (BL700)
, complete with a small and large pitcher and many different cutting blades (including a whipping blade and dough hook).
I absolutely adore this contraption. I use it for all kinds of things, including smoothie making, chopping nuts, veggies, blending up graham cracker crumbs for crusts, making salad dressings, whipping cream, blending dips..etc, etc, etc…I have even used it in a pinch to make cookie dough and bread dough! Amazing, it is.
I use mine every day.
Just like I used to use my kitchen sink every day.
Until she went rogue on me. Dang thing. Hoping once she has been restored to her full glory, we can be friends again. She and I spend a lot of time together after all. 🙂
To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me one of your kitchen mishaps. (Goodness knows we all have them!) Did you accidentally pour freshly made gravy down the sink? Did you burn your husbands birthday cake? Did your chicken soup boil over while you were eating chocolate and reading a great book?
I would love to hear your stories. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then, right! You may enter from now until Thursday March 6th. Winner will be announced and contacted on Friday March 7th.
Good luck, everyone!
Once I made pancakes & accidentally substituted baking powder with baking soda. You wouldn’t think it would make much difference, but GROSS!
Woke up Thanksgiving morning to water all over the kitchen floor, laundry room, and great room! My dishwasher failed me :(( Bad news…Thanksgiving dinner wasn’t much. Good news….I get a new floor!
I made a chicken pot pie and instead of laying the crust dough on top I stirred it into the pot pie. I was talking on the phone and not paying attention. I knew instantly what I had done when I pulled it out of the oven. It was a hot mess and tasted horrible. My husband and son were good sports and tried to eat it but we ended up going out to dinner.
I was cooking spaghetti and was simmering it and forgot to put the lid back on and it splattered my kitchen including the ceiling!!!
What a sweet giveaway! I was getting a Pyrex out at my mom’s house and I dropped it right on the edge of their week old granite counter tops…and chipped it! The counter. Not the dish. I have never cried so hard. 🙁
Hubby loves, loves parsnips. Every Spring he digs them and we prepare them for the freezer. On one of the big pressure cookers batches I forgot to put the water in the bottom and the parsnips were burned beyond repair. Oh well, we still had 20 cups that year to freeze. HE STILL TALKS ABOUT THE LOSE OF THE BURNED ONES!!!:-(
I was making your breadsticks recipe last week and while the mixer was kneading the dough, I ran down to the pantry for something and heard a giant crash. My mixer had “walked” itself right off of my counter! Now I need a new mixer AND a new floor!
I have two stories. When I first started cooking, I was boiling eggs and forgot that I had them on the stove. I was in another room and heard these loud pops – my eggs had boiled dry and were exploding! YIKES! Then, I was once sauteeing mushrooms and forgot that they were on the stove. I smelled something and went in to check on them – my whole pan was on fire! That scared the bejeebers out of me. Needless to say, I no longer leave my kitchen to work on something else when I’ve got something on my stovetop! And P.S. – I would absolutely love that blender! Happy Weekend!
I was toasting something in the toaster oven for lunch and talking to my mom on the phone. My kids started yelling or I wouldn’t have noticed that there was a fire in the toaster oven!
When my husband and got married, we got a wonderful wok. Our very first time using it, we read that we had to smoke some oil in it to get rid of a coating it had on it. So my wonderful husband pored some veggie oil in and put her on the stove. A few minutes later we saw some smoke, and I said, “Honey, I think you should…” And then poof it caught on fire. Well I knew not to out water on it so I was running around looking for baking soda, and he was trying to get me to hand him the lid and it was a chaotic mess. We got the fire out without burning down the house and needless to say our wok is well seasoned!
I apologize for all the typos, I was wrangling our 7 month old daughter while trying to win a blender.