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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 just finished making up a couple batches if spaghetti sauce to freeze and had them all neatly poured into containers. I was carrying them to the freezer when I tripped and dropped the containers… Sauce was all over the floor!
I have gotten better over the years, but when I got married and was new to cooking, my poor husband ate some very bad meals. I remember salt was an issue for me. I either added to much of it or forgot to add it to the dish I was making. I also burned many, many, many things.
My best kitchen mishap recently was when I poured boiling water in a preheated pyrex dish in the oven and it exploded. My young boys tell me to never do that again and that we need a new pan. 🙂
I blame the supermarket but I cooked a pot roast that taste like road kill. so when ever I mention craving a pot roast my family scream in horror. lol It wasn’t me I swear! lol
Mother’s Day… Breakfast in bed, served by my three beautiful, intelligent little ones. They did their own cooking, and, alas, burnt the eggs. Being creative cooks, they camouflaged the burnt color with yellow sugar sprinkles! Cold tea, dark toast, and “yummy” eggs… And then they stood proudly by and watched me eat every last bite. : )
When I was 16 my mom called running late and asked me to make a simple pot of rice to go with dinner she had cooked for ALL the company we were having that night. I started it on the stovetop on high so it would come to a boil quickly and then went into another room to read my book. 20 min later a started smelling something funny. I had charred the rice solidly to the bottom of the pan. I was able to scrape it out and make more before everyone got there, but the whole house stank of burned rice all evening.
I was newly married and made my husband a special birthday dinner. At the time our oven wasn’t working so I used our new toaster oven to bake everything for the meal. I served dinner and my herb rolls (which looked done on top)were a doughy mess underneath. When I served him his cheesecake for dessert I was in for another surprise. I removed the springform pan to find a jiggly (not fully cooked) cheesecake. I ended up in tears at my failed attempt to make a nice birthday dinner. I realized later I had the toaster oven on the wrong setting. My sweet husband had nothing but kind things to say and to this day we still laugh about that meal. 🙂
I was a kid and wanted to surprise my mom and bake some of her favorite lemon bars. The batter was rising in the bowl and I assumed it was supposed to do that. I put them in the oven and a few minutes later smoke was pouring out of the oven. The dough was spilling out of the pan like lava! My mother asked “how much baking powder did you put in?” I said “a cup, just like the recipe said.” Lol, I am very careful with measurement now!
Just this morning I grabbed the cereal container by the lid and the lid popped off and cereal spread all over my unswept kitchen floor.
The night before Easter Day I had to wait until both my young daughters went to bed to finish their baskets and it was very late n I was very tired after cooking n cleaning for the holiday. My last task were the eggs, I started the water n eggs n set the timer. I was so tired I decided to just lay down for a few minutes but of course I fell asleep…over a hour later the entire house wakes up to the smoke alarm n smoking boiled eggs…epic fail n the truth about the Easter bunny was revealed!!!!