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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!
My worst mishap is from a plastic bowl stored in the oven. Of course I forgot it was there when I preheated. What was I thinking when I put it in there in the first place?
The perennial sugar instead of salt.
i was without my stove for 6 months.The poor thing was sparking and started catching on fire. Working with one butane burner for that 6 months with 6 people in my family that was an adventure in itself.
We recently had relatives over for the weekend and made pancakes for 15 kids. I accidentally doubled the salt and they did not taste good at all. We made a LOT of salty pancakes and most of the kids still ate them!
I have also had my sink fall out from under my granite, no fun! One summer when my sister and her family of 5 were visiting my family of 10, my dishwasher exploded. Luckily nothing else caught on fire, but we had a lot of dishes to wash by hand that month.
Super embarrassing: I volunteered to make cookies (with some students) for the entire faculty and staff at my school. Being a “resident expert” and supposed “great cook” I ended up with flat, runny cookies because I didnt put enough flour in ALL of the batters. Easy fix after I ruined about six dozen cookies. My poor, deflated ego.
Putting wax paper (instead of parchment) on my cookie sheet so the cookies wouldn’t stick. Ugh! The smell…. 🙁
I did this more than once….I used to grind my husband’s coffee beans each morning and I tended to forget to put the receptacle to catch the ground beans in the machine. So, the grinds would begin to fly around the kitchen! Just a little frustrating!
First week I was married I put a meatloaf in the oven on clean….needless to say we had meatball by the time I got the oven to open!
I decided to try to warm up the leftovers that were in the crock from my slow-cooker on the stove top. It was going great and then BAM! the crock cracked in two. The BBQ sauce and meat went everywhere. I was cleaning sauce and meat off the stove, the doors, the floor and the cabinets for what seemed like forever!