We have finally moved in to our house. It has been a whirlwind two weeks of moving across the country. Until today I haven’t had any access to the internet (thank goodness for being able to schedule automatic blog posts!), which is why I haven’t responded to your comments and been commenting on any blogs lately. But I promise to get to them soon. After I lay on my couch for a while and detox from all the unpacking, that is.
Enough complaining, what I really want to do today is celebrate! Celebrate that my kitchen is unpacked, that I have actually been cooking and baking again (wahoo!) and celebrate that I am back to blogging.
If there is one thing that unpacking, which I loathe, has done, it has made me realize what things I love. Especially kitchen things. I was practically kissing and hugging my citrus reamer, silpat liners and perfect white platters just from having been without them for so long.
In honor of being back in the blogging world after a crazy move (did I mention that all four of my kids came down with strep throat and ear infections??), I am hereby giving a shout out for two of the kitchen things I unpacked this week that I can’t live without…and I am giving away one of each to two lucky winners!
Here they are (drum roll, please):
Silpat Liner: oh my, I am not exaggerating (and if you know me, you know I love to exaggerate) when I say I use these babies at least three times a week (I have two of them). I line my baking sheets with them every time I make cookies, breadsticks, french bread, rolls, etc. I love them. A lot. They are absolutely nonstick and make clean up a cinch. I’m giving away one of these beauties.
Digital Scale (Salter): If you haven’t been converted to weighing your ingredients, now is the time. For any recipe that gives weights and measures, I ALWAYS weigh. It is accurate and precise and provides practically no-fail results. Plus it makes me feel very culinarily scientific. I have a Salter Digital Scale. I heart it. I’m giving away one just like mine!
Leave me a comment telling me your favorite kitchen item (or just saying hello) and your email address and I’ll enter you in the contest. Only one entry per person, please. Contest ends Friday at 6:00 pm CST. I’ll announce the winners that evening.
By the way, this contest isn’t sponsored by any company. Salter and Silpat (Demarle) have no idea who I am and would probably be embarrassed to know I am waxing poetic about their products. It is simply because I love the products and want to share them with you. Okay, bye now.
My kitchen aid spatula…
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I love my Kitchen Aid. I use it all the time
I love my Bosch mixer. I can’t imagine living with out it.
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Welcome back! I couldn’t live without my Bosch!!!
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Camille
Hmmmm, I love my kitchen-aid mixer and the food that goes in it!
I just got some high heat pampered chef wooden spoons that I use all the time, they’re great! Thank you for all the recipes, I check this website all the time and love the recipes!
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I’d love to try out either one of your favorite kitchen gadgets! [email protected]
I love my KitchenAid. [email protected]
Welcome back!!! I missed your blog!
I was just thinking about one of my favorite kitchen items yesterday, my Farberware silicon spatula. I even hugged it LOL!
I love our Miracle Blade knives. They truly are miracles!!
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This is an awesome give away. Thanks for the opportunity! I love my kitchen aid!I would love either of those items, especially the scale!
I LOVE my ‘butter yellow’ KitchenAid mixer. My husband surprised me with it for my birthday a few years back. It still looks pretty and brand new even though I use a ton.
Good luck to you and your unpacking and getting settled in your new home. I have moved my family a couple of times (Utah-to-Ohio, Ohio-to-Michigan) So I totally understand what you are going through
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I adore my American Kitchen cookware. It was my Christmas present to myself this past year. blonday 2 u at g mail dot com
I would love either of those items! My favorite kitchen utensil? It would have to be my Bosch mixer.
You have become one of our favorite Kitchen accessories!
We found you about a month ago and have tried dozens of recipes from your site…they are always tasty! When my children see a new recipe they ask if it is from that yummy blog.
Welcome to your new home!
My favorite kitchen item is my silicone rubber scraper/spatula. I have 5 and manage to use them all most days. Thanks Christie [email protected]
What a great giveaway! I’ve been wanting a Silpat for a long time now! My favorite kitchen tool would just be a nice, sharp chef’s knife! I go to my Mom’s house or my Aunt’s house and use their dull knives and I don’t know how they aren’t cutting off fingers!!!?!
I love my microplane. I may not use it every day, or even every week, but when I need it is so so great to have.
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I love my Crock Pot! I must use it 2-3 times a week. I have soup cooking away in it right this very moment.
i can’t live without my knife set!
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My favorite kitchen item is my wooden spoon (or any wooden utensil.) I’m glad you survived your move!
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Welcome back! The two things that I could not live without are my kitchen aid mixer and my griddle. I love them both.
My BOSCH! How did I survive without it?
I love my alligator chopper! Makes my cooking life so much easier! It’s a must have in any kitchen.
I love my pampered chef garlic press!
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Thanks! And welcome back!
I love my non stick Bialetti Skillets. I got 3 sizes for 20 bucks at costco and I got way more than I paid for. They are wonderful (truly non stick and easy to clean). I have a 5 qt saucepan with lid that I got for a wedding present 7 years ago and it is awesome too.
I love my kitchen aid and use it almost daily! THanks for your great blog! [email protected]
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I can relate to you on oh so many sentences in your post….I HATE MOVING!
favorite item….the kitchen!!!
I love my Cutco knife! I wish I could afford to have a whole set…they are miracle workers!
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So great to have you back! I love the recipes you share with us!
I have no big fancy mixers or other kitchen items so I think my favourite item in my kitchen has to be my fry pan. I seem to cook everything in it.
I love my medium sized cookie dough scoop, it makes baking cookies SO much easier than forming each ball of dough by hand!
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I love my Kitchen Aide!
Congrats on gettting settled. I am jealous–I have all that moving stuff coming up in the next month. I would like to just fast forward to “sitting on the couch detoxing”! Anyway–I hope you are enjoying your new home. My favorite kitchen items are the silpat for sure and my demarle muffin pans–especially the mini muffins. I want a digital scale bad! Mine is an old cheap one and it is hard to read and I am sure not accurate!! Fun giveaways Melanie!
My favorite kitchen item would have to be the cookie sheets that I got for a wedding present 26 years ago. The new cookie sheets I have don’t compare. [email protected]
I love my wooden spoons!!! Sylvia
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Favorite kitchen item = glass mixing bowl. It’s nothing special, but I associate it with the cheesecake that I mix up in it…which makes me oh-so-happy
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I just went throught the moving process a couple months ago, NO FUN! But it’s so nice to be in a new place once you’re all finished. Hooray!
Ohh I’m dying for a silpat liner! My favorite kitchen tool are Ici silicone tools from Williams & Sonoma. They are the absolute best!
Well, I do love my big Kitchen-Aid, but I think that my Braun hand mixer is extra special because I can just use it on the stove and no sauce ever has lumps!
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Welcome back! Hum, that’s a tough one, my favorite kitchen gadget would have to my microplane zester or my stand mixer. They both come in handy more times then not!
Congrats on getting moved in! I don’t have many kitchen gadgets yet… but my fave is porbably my… oh, wow, I actually don’t have one.
Can I say my beer opener? 
I could never live without my KitchenAid mixer and my trusty set of spatulas!
Has to be my Bosch mixer!
I love my Pampered Chef juicer. I use citrus in a lot of my cooking and the juicer is convenient, practical and efficient!
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I’m in love with my mom’s blender/mixer. Bosch? Yeah I think it is. It makes me smoothies AND snickerdoodle cookies!!!!! MMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
I’ve always wanted a Silpat Liner. My fav kitchen thing would have to be my crock pot. Love the ease of it!
I have been wanting a silpat liner for the longest time! I would love the digital scale as mine is about on its last leg. I really, really love my microplane grater. I no longer avoid recipes that call for fresh ginger citrus zest!
I love my kitchen aid mixer. It makes cookies super fast and I feel like Martha when I turn it on.
I also love my “desperate housewife” apron. It makes me feel like a sexy sassy cook…even though I am barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen when i wear it.
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My favorite item in my kitchen by far is my red Kitchenaid mixer. I have definitely gotten my money’s worth out of that thing.
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I love anything made from silicone. (Kitchen related!
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I suppose right now it would be the brush I use for BBQ-ing, but usually the spatulas. They don’t melt ever. Love them!
I love my pampered chef food chopper! I love your blog!
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It would have to be my Pampered Chef stone. I use it for most baked goods and pizza.
Karen
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Congrats on surviving the move! My favorite item is my set of 3 Santoku knives. Use them every day!!
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welcome back! i actually love my silpat too, i wonder how i’ve gone so long without it!
It’s hard to choose a favorite, probably just a sharp knife because it makes the job so much easier! Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
I love my rubber spatulas. They hold up so well!
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I love my cookie scoop! It is perfect for cookies, muffins, cupcakes, you name it! Thanks for the giveaway!
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I love my pizza stone, and mixer. I would love the silpat mat. I have heard they are great.
The one kitchen item that I love and can’t live without is my Zyliss chopper. I use it all the time to chop, onion, nuts, carrots, boiled eggs, etc. Anything that I don’t want to chop with a knife and you don’t have to touch the food. Which is really good for onions. Really hope I win! My email is [email protected]
I can’t live without my Bosch! I use the blender just about every day. I also love the way the mixer kneads the bread dough for you!
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BTW- I just love your blog!
My favorite item is my cookie scoop!! I make cookies alot for people, and I love it!!! Love your blog!!
I have to say my favorite thing in the kitchen is my sharp cutting knife. I have no idea who made it, but I like the slight curve to the blade and the handle fits nicely in my hand. It saddens me that I went so long with out a good knife. [email protected]
I love a good cutting knife!
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I don’t really have a favorite kitchen item.
Welcome back! I MUST have my kitchen aide mixer! Not only do I use it all the time, BUT, just looking at it in it’s fabulous red glory makes me happy!
I love my Bosch!! Everytime I almost buy the Silpat liners I have wimped out, but maybe it is time! [email protected]
Believe it or not, I added a huge metal bowl to my kitchen this year and honestly don’t know what I did without it. I use it almost every day. [email protected]
I love my KitchenAid Food Processor!
This is Kenna (Bennion) Smith from back in the days of MT:) I’ve been secretly obsessed with your blog since I found it (via blog stocking Billings people…I know, I SHOULD be ashamed) and have been trying just about every recipe you’ve ever posted…all the while feeling guilty that I have never left a comment. Well there’s nothing like free kitchen gear to make me come out of the closet and admit my obession. So THANK YOU for making especially dinner time something to look forward to and for making it Impossible to lose any weight because of all the YUMMY treats:) Thanks again!
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I love the recipes you put up in the blog! I’ve tried many of them and have had great dinners/desserts! My favorite kitchen item would have to be my beloved Kitchen Aid mixer with its 5-gallon mixing bowl…best wedding present ever!
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I love the my zester/grater (hand-held, long) from Williams Sonoma. I use a LOT of parmesan.
Fabulous!! My favorite kitchen item is definitely my Calphalon chef’s knife – I use it everyday!
I LOVE your blog!! I really my food processor!! Couldn’t without it!!
Oh so many things I love…I think I have to agree with Destiny – I love my Bosch!
goodness my bosch is at the top of my list too; right alongside my bakers pin and parchment paper.
I’ve thought about converting to weight but I only have a manual scale so I haven’t mustered up the motivation to take it out each time I bake. Must do something about that…
I love my bosch and couldn’t live without it!! Brooke Pickeral [email protected]
My favorite kitchen item is my bosch mixer- can’t live without it!!
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My favorite kitchen item is my mixing bowl with the rubberized bottom so it doesn’t slip around. . . but I could use a new favorite! [email protected]
Two of moy favorite things are my kitchenaid mixer and my lemon squeezer.
I love my stone bakeware from Pampered Chef … it is truly amazing stuff!
I love my computer–that isn’t even close to my kitchen, which gives me the opportunity to try recipes from all sorts of people I would never get to know otherwise. And my hundreds (almost, but not really) of silicone spatulas! Can you really have enough of those?
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I absolutely LOVE your food blog! I love that you explain how to make things so well, have amazing pictures, and post do-able, real recipes.
I would love the digital scale. Ever since I did a food science lab that showed the variance that comes with measuring cups, I agree that weighing is the only way to go!
I could not live without my kitchen aid, I love it!
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Congratulations on being moved in. What a relief. I enjoy using my kitchen aid mixer along with the 100 thousand other people who like it! It does make things easy.
I love my pampered chef garlic press…so easy to use and clean. Love your blog!
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I love my Kitchen Aide and also my Nicer Dicer!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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My favorite kitchen item might have to be my set of Wusthof knives…haven’t found any knives that work nearly as good as this set!
My favorite kitchen item is my cutco knives, followed closely by my kitchen aid mixer. The knives are a dream come true.
K, not kissing up, but your blog recipes and other recipes from my favorite sites and magazines. If I didn’t have them no tool would work well for me.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the dutch oven this summer. It’s great to cook outside and the food is always tasty. Thanks for the great recipes! [email protected]
My favorite things to use are spatulas. I have many, in different colors and sizes. I go through 4-5 a day!
Enjoy settling into your new home. I love your blog, I refer to it all the time!
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I love my rice cooker! And I really want the scale.
Love your blog…I think the thing I use most is my mixing bowl with a rubber bottom so it doesn’t move. It’s just the right shape too so that stuff doesn’t go flying when you are mixing in it. twinsej @ gmail dot com
My recent crush is my meat mallet. I love to take out my frustrations on a piece of meat.
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My kitchen aid!
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I love your blog! Welcome back! My favorite kitchen item is my Kitchen Aid and my three Kitchen Aid bowls and extra paddles so that I can finish a project without washing the bowl
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My garlic roller… sounds wierd I know, but its a round little holder with wheels,you stick garlic inside the round area and roll it like a toy car, the blades inside mince the garlic perfectly… you don’t have to touch the garlic and get stinky hands, not to menntion you get to play with a “toy car”!
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This is hard I love so many tools that I use in the kitchen but I would have to say the item I use the most that I love are my cutco knifes
My favorite kitchen item? Hum… probably my knives. I use them every single day without fail. Although I would really like a silpat!
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oddly enough it is my cookie scoop. it is so much easier when the cookies are all the same size.
btw, i’m excited that you moved (back) to wisconsin. my hubby and i just got back from a vacation there, and are thinking about relocating there!
I just started cooking and baking (more) when we moved a year ago, so I have a limited supply. So the only tool that I have is my KA mixer, which of course I love!