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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!
Our OTR microwave died a couple months ago (or maybe it just seems like that long ago…) but my older son was making oatmeal for himself one recent morning before heading out to go ice-fishing. He was boiling milk on the stovetop but didn’t realize how quickly milk can go from simmer to … you guessed it: stinky milk burned onto the stovetop.
Oops! One time I accidentally out dish soap in the dishwasher! I had bubbles to clean for days!!
This week has been awful with sick kids. I was doing so many things as us moms do I actually burnt water on the stove. I felt so dumb who burns water. Oh it really can smell too:(
I had a dinner for my husband’s commander while in the military. I put the meal on the table and sat down. My husband ask, “Do we have a meat”? Yes, a roast I had put on the table. Then we saw the empty plate…..my St. Bernard had taken the roast off the table, taken it to his queen sized bed, and ate it…he had the roast string caught in his teeth!! We went out and got some chicken!! His commanding officer said it was the most memorable dinner he had ever had.
We were having a Halloween party at work. Our department theme a tropical paradise. My job was to make the alcohol free frozen margaritas. I used my handy dandy Kitchen aid blender. I has a rubber clutch that spins the blade…after about 3 pitchers full…the rubber fell apart. Of the 150 employees only about 1/3 of my coworkers got the frozen treat. Have bought two more of the rubber replacements…would love to do away with the Kitchen Aid.
My biggest mishap was probably when I made lemon bars and they exploded in the oven, sticky mess.
Being a military wife, my husband was due home from deployment so I decided to make him his favorite dessert-brownies! I wanted them to still be warm by the time I picked him up so I made them right before he was due home-in all the excitement I forgot I left them in the oven when I left…needless to say he had VERY burnt brownies and a smokey house to welcome him home 🙂
I was teaching my daughter how to make a new brownie recipe and we took the brownies out of the oven and placed it on the burner that we both thought was off. Needless to say the next thing we knew the dish exploded. Scaring the @#%(^$#%%$ out of both of us.
I recently tried making a pasta dish and over cooked the pasta so much that it turned into a big pile of mush. Thankfully my husband grilled some brats to go on top of the pasta so we basically just had brats for dinner!
I started my son’s cheese sand which, then started cutting snowflakes. Totally forgot the now awful smelling, very black cheese sandwich.