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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 made cookies with cinnamon instead of cocoa. Oops! I know stick to original packaging for all my spices.
I was prepping a large meal (Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner) and my kitchen sink backed up. We tried for 4 hours to get it unclogged and then resigned to call a plumber in the morning. We let it set overnight and turned on the garbage disposal the next morning and voila! Luckily, it drained and we got it cleaned up before the real cooking began! =)
I’m sure everyone has done this… I set a plastic mixing bowl on my glass cook top and accidentally turned on the burner underneath it rather than the burner under my pan! Melted bowl and pancake batter all over!
Hmmm…I have a few to choose from! I may have once or three times waited until the night before my kid’s party to make the bday cake and then not sprayed the pan well enough and had to use frosting to glue the pieces together and then ended up with such a hideous looking thing that I started over after midnight.
My husband called telling me he was bringing his bosses to dinner that night. I frantically rushed to the store and asked the young man working in the meat section for brisket. I grabbed what he handed me and took it home to prepare. When I bit into it, with the bosses sitting across from me, I realized it was corned beef brisket. So salty I was dying. We went out!!
When I was first married I was very stupid and didn’t realize that whole fish still had the guts inside of them and needed to be cleaned out.I baked my husband some catfish and the stench was so bad we had to leave our apartment! Even our cat ran in the other direction when I offered her some fish.Never made that mistake again!
I would have to say the time I spent hours simmering and seasoning a gorgeous organic chicken carcass for stock and then strained the broth right down the drain because I was distracted! Gutting. Now I triple check that the bowl is there!
There are too many to mention!
Soooo many. How about forgetting the sugar in Thanksgiving pumpkin pies. Not discovered until serving the pie. Ugh! Should have been part of the vegetable course.
Who hasn’t had a mishap? From pots boiling over to forgetting about boiled eggs cooking.(who burns boiled eggs?) To too much salt added. There are way too many of them to name one in particular.