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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!
I put a pan on the stove and turned the wrong burner on without realizing it. That would have been fine, except the burner that I turned on happened to have a can of oatmeal on it. (You know, the large cylinder can that is made of cardboard. For the life of me I can’t remember what they are called.) I walked back into the kitchen to a towering oatmeal of inferno. I’m not sure how I didn’t burn down our apartment. I quickly extinguished the flames and tried to clean up the fiery stench left behind. I don’t think I ever got that smoke stink out of the wall. I scrubbed for hours on it.
Before I really learned to cook or read a recipe I decided to make our families favorite chocolate cake from scratch. I ended up adding a tablespoon of salt instead of a teaspoon and used granulated sugar instead of powdered in the frosting. Needless to say no one enjoyed my salty and grainy masterpiece! Thanks for the giveaway, I hope I win!:-)
Not too long ago I boiled up a batch of spaghetti noodles. As usual when it was done I brought it over to the sink to dump it in the colander and drain off the water. Sadly, I didn’t notice until I had turned the pot upside down over the garbage disposal side of the sink that I had forgotten to put the colander in the sink. Many of my spaghetti noodles went right down in the garbage disposal. The real question then became do I try to save the ones that were just laying in the sink? How clean is it? I am pleading the 5th on that decision. 😉
I was newly married and wanted to make fried chicken and we had gotten a deep fryer as a gift. I breaded the chicken popped it into the deep fryer and pulled it out when it was golden brown, we sat down to eat it and cut into a breast to have it full of blood and running out like a horror movie. Its been over 40 years and I’m still nervous when frying chicken.
While transferring Christmas turkey to a plate, the bird slipped and fell onto the floor! Turkey everywhere! my most memorable cooking disaster
I left a pan on the stove, heating up oil to make scones, and left it too long! Walked back in the kitchen and there was a pillar of fire from my pan to the ceiling!! This was over ten years ago and I STILL AM THE PUN OF ALL THE KITCHEN MISHAP JOKES!!!!!
Kitchen mishaps happen all too often for me. The classic one is when I put something that needs refridgerated in the cupboard or pantry. That always frustrates me! We also just made kool aid popcorn the other day for the first time and didn’t break it up soon enough and it was hard as a rock and stuck hard onto the cookie sheet. I have wanted a ninja for a long time and hope this can turn my daily kitchen mishaps around!!! Thanks for doing this!
During college, I was making liver and onions in gravy for my husband-to-be in his apartment. He (still) has a habit of just placing a screw lid on top of spice containers. I go to pepper the finished dish out of the shaker lid, and dumped 4 oz. of black pepper into the skillet. 🙁
Last Thanksgiving I was draining the 5 plus pounds of potatoes so I could mash them. I lifted the colander and it fell apart and the potatoes went everywhere. It was a good thing we had started early because we had to do it all over again.
I was thinking of another thing that happened. I drove up and my neighbor asked me what that horrible smell was coming from my house. The babysitter had cooked frozen corn dogs in the microwave and had punched in 5 minutes instead of 50 seconds! The smell was horrendous! She felt so bad. The smell eventually went away after lots of baking powder and scrubbing.
The one that comes to mind is when my husband and I were both in the kitchen and the blood from a hamburger tray got dripped all over the dessert we were about to take to someone’s house. We still chuckle about that one from time to time.