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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 accidentally sent carrot peels down the drain…. and the drain should have then been named “clog”. Woops!
My most recent mishap and there have been a few, included a blender, my sister and the making of frozen strawberry daquairis. Put everything in the blender. Turned it on and myself, sister and kitchen were soon wearing it! Forgot the lid! Couldn’t stop laughing!
I pulled a Pyrex dish out of the oven full, heavy, and boiling and dropped it all over my floor. Food, glass, not pretty! Good thing I was wearing pants.
I love to make my own pizza. One night I slid the pizza off of the pizza pan and right onto the floor-cheese side down…grr…the worst part was that I scraped it off the floor and made my family eat it…
Got up one morning expecting a fresh cup of coffee (had set the automatic timer the night before) and my old-school coffee maker had streamed hot water everywhere on the counter but none into the carafe. A mess to clean and no fresh coffee. I probably did not position the filter basket “just right” and created this mishap.
I was making a poke cake and in decided I would use a piece of dry spaghetti to make the holes. I didn’t realize that as I was doing it pieces of the spaghetti was breaking off. So in my cake I had bit of spaghetti in it.
I had a sink mishap also. My water wouldn’t drain. Very clogged. Put in a new disposal. Called plumber to fix pipes underneath the sink. Found out the main pipe going to the basement was gushing out water. Tore a whole in my wall to put pipe in. Probably didn’t have a working sink or running water for a week in my kitchen. Plus lots of dishes piled up.
My very first Thanksgiving meal I cooked after I was married, I think I made the one mistake everyone knows better about…I left the dang bags in the turkey when I baked it!!
I was making this sandwich that goes in the oven. I forgot to put the sautéd veggies on before the cheese and I put it in the oven. I had to pull it apart once I remembered and just barely succeeded!
The funniest, or ridiculous, part of this mishap is that I didn’t learn my lesson the first, second, or third time. In my first apartment I was peeling potatoes into the sink and put the perks down the disposal. When I turned it on, rather than sending them down the drain, it backed the sink up. Since then, I’ve done it a couple more times, with potatoes & cucumbers. I now peel them into the garbage can – less mess & happy husband!