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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 had limited counter space in my small kitchen so I placed my Tupperware cake holder with the cake inside on top of one of the stove burners. Actual flames came shooting out from under the cake holder. I had to use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. I’ve never seen or cleaned up a bigger mess in my entire life! We had to replace the burner plate due to it being ruined with melted plastic.
I was making homemade chocolate on my brand new glass top stove and wasn’t watching it close enough. It boiled over and needless to say there is a spot 2″ X 1″ on the stovetop that is ‘burned’. Uggh, things happen.
My very first attempt at making brownies, I am not quite sure how…but while in the oven,they began to boil! Needless to say they were a charred unrecognizable mess!!!
Last week I didn’t cook enough rice so I decided halfway through the cooking time to add more rice and water. Ended up with mushy crunchy rice! I knew better but for some reason I did it anyway.
I would love a Ninja blender! I once made homemade chicken pot pie. I made the crust from scratch and all the filling. I just finished assembling it all and as I go to move it from one counter to the other… it slipped out of my hands onto the floor 🙁 Sad day!
Every time I cook is a mishap! That’s why I’m here trying to learn how to cook and not have a mishap! 🙂
My husbands favorite sandwhich was a Reuben and I had found a recipe for a Reuben casserole and decided to try it, well I didn’t have all the exact ingredients and improvised a little. Well this was also a day he decided to surprise me with bringing a friend to dinner and this was not a recipe to improvise on, as I quickly found out when they both tried it and gagged immediately. It was horrible and all I had done was use a different thousand island dressing then listed and marble rye bread rather then the typical rye bread listed….yuck!!
My boyfriend (now husband) and I had plans to deep fry some “French fries” like his grandma did…. What we did was start a grease fire in my dads kitchen! We panicked and didn’t know what to do so we put baking soda on it. Bad idea. the fire flared up! I remember seeing the fire rolling along the kitchen ceiling….i ran outside. Ha! Thankfully my baby brother, who is smarter than us, walked up and put a lid on the pan which put our fire out…. My dad lived with burnt cabinets for about 15 years before finally re-doing his kitchen….. He would joke we should have let his kitchen burn down. Thanks for the fun giveaway! Sorry to hear about your kitchen sink.
So when my dear husband and I were engaged I swore up and down I was a fabulous baker. I attempted to make him brownies in his miniature sized oven. They burned so badly you could pull out the entire pan in one piece! Turns out the oven temp. wasn’t working correctly and was off a few HUNDRED degrees! We put an oven thermometer in there and never had much of a problem after that. Nice first impression, though. Makes a fun story to tell everyone that knows how much I love to bake and do it all the time.
The first time I made pork chops I somehow managed to put enough salt on them to cause permanant high blood pressure. I didn’t really know how to cook as a newlywed. I used all the seasonings I had, garlic salt, seasoned salt, salt and pepper. By the time I had taken a bite, my husband had dutifully eaten almost half of on because he didn’t want to hurt my feelings. I ordered a pizza. That was 15 years ago and to this day anytime something doesn’t turn out right he says, at least you didn’t serve me a salt lick!