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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!
In the middle of trying to finish a Christmas Eve dinner, I was draining the haricot verts, and on the way back to the stove, slipped and flung them all over the kitchen. AND I bruised my behind. Not a fun night!!!
My family has asked me not to cook hamburgers in the oven anymore because I tend to set off the smoke detector 😉 Thank goodness for grills!
I mandolaide a corner of my thumb off.and dropped a knife in my foot. First time back into kitchen after recovering from a stroke early last year.
First time every cooking, I bought stuffed pork chops. Heard pork had to be cooked for a long time…cooked for hours! Still can’t live that one down!
Leaving salt out of a batch of cookies – yuck!
Ever put too much shredded chicken down the disposal and clog the pipes? I have. Smells nasty and looks even nastier when trying to clean it out. Garbage disposals and chicken – not friends.
I cooked the bag of giblets inside the turkey because I couldn’t find it until after I pulled the turkey out of the oven. Another time I pulled out a not quite done turkey and didn’t realize until it was too late. I didn’t really learn to cook until I was about 27 years old and cooking blogs became more common and popular. You helped me a lot. Growing up we ate a lot of Spaghetti, tacos and hamburger helper. I didn’t know a better way. Hope we win the blender. Sunday smoothies are my kids new favorite tradition.
Forgot about the rice cooking on the glass stovetop. Went outside. When I came back in the house was smokey and smelled bad, the rice was charcoal like and the glass top stove was broken. We had to go outside to breath and the smell was so potent our neighbors were asking if everything was okay.
I used to eat oysters… bought some fresh ones and tried shucking them with a knife… BAD idea… emergency room and stiches. Never tried that again.
My worst kitchen disaster (to date) involved me using a can-opener to open a can of pineapple and then somehow dropping the lid from that can into my live blender as I made a blueberry smoothie. I can no longer remember the details of how I was stupid enough to do this, but by the grace of God, no one was killed when the blender ejected the thin, razor-sharp metal disk from its pitcher, along with most of the smoothie. I still have a few small, stubborn, purple flecks on my kitchen ceiling.