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Ninja Blender Giveaway, baby!

by Jamie

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!

 

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798 comments

Connie February 28, 2014 - 1:00 pm

Making gravy. Went to salt it and the lid came off and all the sat went into the gravy. Time for a new batch!

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Gina February 28, 2014 - 1:01 pm

I would have to say burning cookies..which was wednesday..the bottom pan burned the bottoms..had to explain to the missionaries that they were getting well done cookies…:)

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Susan K February 28, 2014 - 1:02 pm

We accidentally burned up a school project that one of our children had put in the oven to dry. Oops, but really needed some brownies.

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Kristina February 28, 2014 - 1:02 pm

This past Labor Day, I placed a just baked pretzel crust in a glass pan, on my stove that I thought was safe. When I started to smell something funny, I looked and saw that one the electric burners was still on. I picked up the glass pan to move it elsewhere and the whole thing shattered in my hands. No one was hurt but I lost a precious pan and had to start the recipe over.

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Jennifer February 28, 2014 - 1:03 pm

I found out my in-laws were coming unexpectedly. I had an empty pan of a dessert sitting on the counter and decided to shove it in the oven to hide it. Of course, I forgot about it. The next morning I thought I would be a nice mom and fix oven pancakes for my kids. I turned the oven on to 400 to preheat. Pretty soon, I could smell something burning, but it still didn’t click. About the time I was ready to put the pancakes in the oven, the fire alarm started going off. What a great way to wake up my children!!!

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Kim K February 28, 2014 - 1:04 pm

We lived in China for two years, and I was always putting ridiculously hot peppers in food by accident.

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Carol Walliser February 28, 2014 - 1:06 pm

I LOVE your recipes & stories. I’ve shared your recipes & website w/ friends & family (4 granddaughters, 3 daughters) & they love them too!

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Linda February 28, 2014 - 1:08 pm

This isn’t EXACTLY a kitchen mishap but last week end a nasty piece of plastic somehow got lodged in my plumbing causing the toilet to bubble and the tub to stop draining and low and behold something REALLY nasty to back up in my other bathtub and flow out of my other toilet. So the 50 dirty dishes I needed to clean got loaded into my dishwasher without rinsing and they were left there while me and the fam hastily beat a retreat to relatives houses until the whole plumbing system could be reamed out and aforementioned piece of plastic be removed so that the dirty dishes could be cleaned on our return Monday night. It was not fun!

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Shannon February 28, 2014 - 1:09 pm

I make a delicious chocolate cream cheese bundt cake that my family adores. It is requested for every birthday. Well, about 10 years ago this cake was cooling on my counter and my very ornery dog jumped up and ate it all! My mom til this day holds a grudge against him for this!

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Wendy February 28, 2014 - 1:10 pm

I just had a kitchen mishap the other day where I lit a paper towel on fire(from the stove), screamed and dropped it on the floor. While my kids were watching. Way to stay cool in a crisis.

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Karen W February 28, 2014 - 1:10 pm

Kitchen mishaps are a daily thing around here! One of most recent stunts would be using flour when I meant to grab sugar. I was making sweet tea (yep, I live in the South)only had a little of sugar in my canister grab a new bag and started pouring into my cup of sugar and it was the bag of flour instead of sugar. Had to dump the cup and start over, but at least it did not make it into the tea!

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Virginia Craven February 28, 2014 - 1:10 pm

This was actually not my disaster (although I have had plenty) but a disaster for my dinner with a little help form our dog. I was finishing up details for my daughter-in-laws birthday dinner and our Welsh Terrier jumped on the server and ate about 1/4 of the beautiful chocolate cake.

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cristy hughes February 28, 2014 - 1:10 pm

I had been talking to my husband about replacing our stove for quite some time with no luck. When cooking dinner I inadvertently used wax paper instead of parchment paper which caused a fire and made replacing our stove a necessity! It really was an accident, just wish I had thought of it sooner….

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Narda February 28, 2014 - 1:11 pm

Biggest upset in my kitchen was when I tried to transfer a huge pot full of boiling applesauce. My feet slipped on some water on the floor and I went down, pot and all. Nearly did the splits, pot landed on the vinyl floor and melted a beautiful arc but not a drop of applesauce was lost amazingly enough. Lucky escape there I can tell you!

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Shelley Reeves February 28, 2014 - 1:11 pm

I took a hot casserole dish and put it in a sink with some cold water. It made the loudest noise when it cracked into a million pieces.

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Annette February 28, 2014 - 1:11 pm

I love telling the story where my husband ruined the gravy.

Those foolproof little gravy packets. Just add water, heat and serve.

He ruined it so badly it was completely stuck in the pan. It was not spoonable or pourable…or edible.

My kids think this is the best story ever.

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Laura Filar February 28, 2014 - 1:12 pm

Our old kitchen was extremely small. I remember we had to keep a lot of things in the oven. One day I turned oven on to preheat and my husband asked if something was burning. I said no nothing is in there yet. But when I looked there was melted plastic from my tupperware lids that go on the pyrex dishes.

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Josh February 28, 2014 - 1:12 pm

Worst, and most embarrassing ever: I burnt hot dogs.

Seriously. I put them in a saucepan with water. Turned on the stove, walked away…

And forgot all about them until they started smoking because all the water had boiled out.

I definitely learned my lesson with that one.

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Patricia Serio February 28, 2014 - 1:13 pm

Hi Jamie, I put a small pot of water on the stove and then came to my laptop to write down one of your scrumptious pasta recipes, low and behold I got caught up reading all the wonderful recipes you have and forgot the water was boiling, I smelled a burning pot turned off the stove and later made your delicious noodle recipe, my family loved it and I am so happy that I can come to you everyday to make something different for them to eat. Thank you so very much for the wonderful site and I love the pictures too.I see you everyday, keep them coming and I will see you later. Pat

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Jen February 28, 2014 - 1:13 pm

I once dropped a hotpad in my oven while I was taking something out. It fell right on the element and caught fire. Being the safety, fire expert I am, I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put the fire out. The chemical powder from the extinguisher got in every cupboard, drawer, nook, and cranny of my kitchen. I ended up having to empty all my cupboards and wash all my dishes to get rid of it. All for a fire the size of a hotpad that I could have put out by grabbing it and putting it in the sink!

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Marci February 28, 2014 - 1:18 pm

I was boiling potatoes one day and left them too long. When I finally remembered I had them cooking, they were REALLY burned to the bottom. I didn’t want to stink up my kitchen (or house) so I took the whole pot outside. But I had to open the door first and didn’t realize this until I was standing there with the pot in my hands. I didn’t want to burn the table or counter top so I put the pot on the rug while I opened the door. The fibers of the rug melted right to the pot. Even after a lot of scrubbing with steel wool, there are still some plastic particles on my pot. The rug, of course, is ruined.

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Carolyn Wells February 28, 2014 - 1:19 pm

I LOVE cream pies,especially Lemon Meringue Pies. However every time I bake a cream pie, etc.,c my crust gets soggy. I have waited until the crust gets cool, or the filling cools or is hot and nothing I do seems to help….Please let me know what I am doing wrong……

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Brandi Smalley February 28, 2014 - 1:20 pm

I really cannot believe I am posting this for the public to see but here goes nothing….Christmas 2012 my family arrives at my moms house for dinner. I am still frantically trying to prepare the meal (my first year doing it for the family) so I was nervous & scattered considering I could probably be cast on Americas Worst Cook! Since I was in an unfamiliar (not my own) kitchen, I didn’t know where certain things were. Trying to fix the over liquified gravy I added what I thought was flour only to soon realize it was powdered sugar…so that was a bust all together! Then because I was so frazzled I forgot to remove the plastic lid on the easy clean travel pan before heating the green bean casserole! The whole meal was a disaster but on the up side…I don’t think I will ever be asked to host Christmas (or any other holiday) dinner again! So embarrassing!!

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Melanie February 28, 2014 - 1:21 pm

Well long story short, My kitchen mishaps happened during an evening I had my in-laws coming over for dinner. I decided to make a recipe handed down from my husbands grandma. Its a pork chop dish with a yummy gravy you make with the pan drippings. Right before we were ready to sit down I poured the gravy into my gravy boat(which was top heavy) and it dumped into the pockets on my apron. The entire gravy was gone. Had to improvise and open a jar of the store bought stuff. Definitely not the same. The following day I bought a better gravy boat.

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Alyce February 28, 2014 - 1:21 pm

I used one hand instead of two taking out my Russian Chicken baked in a 9×13 pan. Big mistake. Of course the oven was hot, so all the contents of the pan spilled and baked right on to the oven surfaces. I spent the next hour or so trying to wipe all the juices and onions out!

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Barbara February 28, 2014 - 1:22 pm

I was making gravy and used powdered sugar and water instead of a flour and water mixture to thicken it! Had some very sweet gravy!

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Courtney@BooksnBoys February 28, 2014 - 1:24 pm

Oh I have a really good one for this! So we were having pancakes one morning and my mom couldn’t open the syrup. Now, I grew up in a family of several children, so my parents bought syrup from Costco by the 5 gallon jug. My dad came in and mom told him she couldn’t get the syrup open. He said, “Oh, you just have to tap the lid on the counter to loosen it.” He then proceeded to turn the 5 gallon jug over and banged it on the countertop. It exploded. I am totally not exaggerating. The entire 5 gallon syrup container EXPLODED all over the kitchen. My dad and mom had syrup soaked all way to their underwear. It was hilarious! After my parents left the room of course 🙂
Best cooking mishap ever!

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Laura M. February 28, 2014 - 1:27 pm

I accidentally dropped a glass on top of a pan of lasagna. It shattered and our dinner had to be thrown out! Disappointing!

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Carol Brown February 28, 2014 - 1:27 pm

Many years ago I was SO excited to get a brand new countertop. Two weeks later I was boiling eggs for potato salad. I forgot about the pot on the stove and the water boiled out. My sweet 10 yr old helped me by taking the pot from the stove and setting on my brand new counter. When I came in and found the pot and lifted it off the counter, there were 3 perfect raised burn spots where the eggs had been in the pot. In trying to see if they could be removed, I pushed on them and they broke through to the wood under the laminate. Counter top ruined!!

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Tina Lovell February 28, 2014 - 1:29 pm

I am the queen of starting hamburger in the skillet and walking away to browse pinterest… too many pans of blackened ground beef in my house!

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Patty Jensen February 28, 2014 - 1:29 pm

My biggest mishap, that I will admit to, is when we were hosting our first “gourmet” dinner. Not only was it our first dinner, but with people I did not know well and wanted desperately to impress. So I did what any “sane” cook would do – I cooked dishes that I had never cooked before. That’s right, first time dinner, first time guests, and first time courses. Things went along, pretty well, but I had no idea of the stress I had put myself under until it was time to take out the dessert from the oven. Not only had I not turned on the oven (luckily (?) it only took twenty minutes to bake), but when we were finally able to eat I realized that I had misread the recipe. I read “3 T of salt”, when it should have been “3 T sugar”. Need I say more??

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Jenn Fox February 28, 2014 - 1:30 pm

When I was a newly wed, I decided to bake a casserole, but forgot to take the rubber lid off the casserole dish before putting it into the oven. Not sure why I had the lid on to begin with, probably had it in the fridge prepped. The lid melted of course. Also, while newly weds and living in student housing, we tried baking a fish my mother had given us. It started smoking like crazy and we couldn’t get the smoke detector in our apt. to stop beeping. Pretty soon all the neighbors kept coming to see what was going on. I’ve also burnt countless things in our current home before we got a new timer, since the old one was so quiet. My husband also decided to place 2 hot pans on our counter without a rack or hot pad and burnt ring marks into our counter top.

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Meg February 28, 2014 - 1:30 pm

Hi. Well after moving out west to Los Angeles my husband and I got a hankering for some good ole southern boiled peanuts. Long story short the boiled peanuts ended up ALL OVER the entire kitchen after the double boiler decided to explode. Not a fun clean up and there was painting involved as well.

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Karie Coats February 28, 2014 - 1:31 pm

I would die over a new ninja!!! I home-make my daughters baby food, and when I reheat it, I heat a bowl of water in the microwave, then set the container of baby food in the heated water to heat up the food. The last time I did it, when I place the container in the water, it must have just hit its boiling point, because the water exploded all over my hand! I was in a LOT of pain for days, and needless to say, I never did that again!

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Nikole February 28, 2014 - 1:32 pm

My mishap actually involves a blender. I was making a black bean soup and poured boiling hot beans and chicken stock into the blender and let her rip. You can imagine what happened! The lid flew off and black bean puree went everywhere. My kitchen looked like a crime scene. I can laugh about it now, but it sure wasn’t funny that day. 🙂

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Janet Kolbe February 28, 2014 - 1:33 pm

Mine was when I was young and had put a pan of green beans on the stove and then went outside to wash the car. I returned to much smoke and beans that turned to long strips of charcoal. Don’t leave something on the stove and then leave the kitchen! I’m still working on that bad habit.

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Kelsey February 28, 2014 - 1:33 pm

I was making dinner for a lady in my neighborhood and the last thing I made was chocolate sauce to go on some ice-cream. I put the dish of chocolate sauce in my fridge and my 10 month old baby crawled over to the fridge to play before I could close it. I didn’t think that much of it until I heard a noise and looked over and saw chocolate sauce all over her and the floor! It was hilarious.

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Meg February 28, 2014 - 1:34 pm

The first time I made chocolate chip cookies by myself (I was probably 7 or 8), I accidentally added a 1/2 CUP of baking soda instead of a 1/2 tsp. OOPS! I think I’ve gotten better at reading recipes since then. Although, I did manage to both burn and undercook some stir fry a few years ago. Still learning…

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Brenda Stephens February 28, 2014 - 1:35 pm

My daughter was broiling a floor tortilla in the oven which was too close to the burner and caught on fire!! Quickly grabbed it out of the oven, but scary nonetheless!

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Teresa Garza February 28, 2014 - 1:35 pm

A few years back I made a casserole to take to a Christmas party and had baked it in a disposable aluminum pan. I had never cooked with one before and I put it right onto the oven rack. When it was done (30 minutes later) I I went to pull it out of the oven and as I grabbed it by both sides with a pot holder the entire pan buckled from the heat and folded in the middle. Enchilada casserole went EVERYWHERE…oven door, floor, cabinets, my party dress and yes my hands and wrist. Needless to say it was HOT and burned my hands. I’ve made the casserole many times since then, but to this day my sons call it “hand burn casserole”!!

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carla February 28, 2014 - 1:36 pm

This happened a couple years ago….I was making home made caramels and they didn’t harden. So I ended up putting the whole pan of caramels down the garbage disposal. Well they finally hardened when the cold water in the disposal hit them. Clogged it right up! What a mess!

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Karen February 28, 2014 - 1:36 pm

One of my worst kitchen mistakes was reading a recipe incorrectly and adding one tablespoon of salt instead of one teaspoon of salt to a bread recipe. I should have known something was wrong when it didn’t rise well, but we cut into it and realized I had made a loaf of really crackers!

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Rene Schmeltz February 28, 2014 - 1:36 pm

I made vegetable soup for church to feed 30-45 people and I poured to much seasonings in it and it was edible but not that great

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Debbie February 28, 2014 - 1:37 pm

Unfortuantely they happen much too frequently. Just this week I ask my sweet son to clean and refill the salt and pepper shakers. Later I went to add some s&p to mashed potatoes. While adding the pepper the cap came off. Unfortunately I am a slow learner and the same thing happened when I went to add the salt. My sweet son is in a literal phase and placed the caps on but did not tighten since I didn’t say that part. Gotta love ’em….they will be gone too soon.

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Janelle February 28, 2014 - 1:37 pm

I just made a wonderful potato casserole. I took it out of the oven and put it on the stove. I should have put it on the counter top, but I was distracted by my kids fighting. Well, I didn’t know that the stove top was still hot. I heard an explosion. The glass pan and the potato casserole were all over the kitchen!

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Dessa Wade February 28, 2014 - 1:37 pm

My kitchen mishap was putting some freshly made banana chocolate chip muffins in a Tupperware and than setting it in the oven. Then my daughter preheated the oven and much to her surprise had a huge mess to clean up. Not a good day! Would love to win!

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Ashlyn February 28, 2014 - 1:39 pm

My dear husband was warming up some soup and turned the wrong burner on, the one that just so happened to have a roll of paper towels sitting way too close to it. Needless to say my kindergartener came into the kitchen to find “fire shooting out of the stove and up the cabinets!!” “Stop! Drop! and Roll!” was the next thing yelled as my younger two children scrambled with her out of the house to a safe place while my husband dumped the chicken noodle soup on the fire to put it out. This was a lovely mess for me to find upon returning home. 🙂

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Meg February 28, 2014 - 1:44 pm

One day I had the flu, and all I really wanted was an orange creamsicle smoothie. All went well until the part where I turned the blender on before affixing the lid. There was a sticky mess on everything.

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Martha Harris February 28, 2014 - 1:46 pm

I spill a two gallon container of red Koolaid on a brand new peach colored carpet from the kitchen into the dining room. Then I had a panic attack trying to clean it up! UGHHHH!

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Tricia H February 28, 2014 - 1:46 pm

Was making icing for cupcakes when my daughter was younger and she just had to help! We had confectionary sugar everywhere when she started the mixer! Love the memories.

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