I'm Back and Ready to Celebrate!
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.
I love anything made from silicone. (Kitchen related! 🙂 )
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!
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.
queenchristinebell@gmail.com
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.
mandybvoges @ gmail.com
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’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 love my Pampered Chef juicer. I use citrus in a lot of my cooking and the juicer is convenient, practical and efficient!
jennaholmes41@gmail.com
Has to be my Bosch mixer!
I could never live without my KitchenAid mixer and my trusty set of spatulas!
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? 😉
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!
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!
H. Smith (heidi.amelia@gmail.com)
Ohh I’m dying for a silpat liner! My favorite kitchen tool are Ici silicone tools from Williams & Sonoma. They are the absolute best!
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!
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 🙂
bjhegland@gmail.com
I love my wooden spoons!!! Sylvia
sylbw45@gmail.com
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. dar.sieb@gmail.com
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!
I love my medium sized cookie dough scoop, it makes baking cookies SO much easier than forming each ball of dough by hand! 🙂
deborahsw @ gmail.com
I love my Kitchen Aide!
I love my Cutco knife! I wish I could afford to have a whole set…they are miracle workers!
joellenzafacon at gmail dot com
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.
hello 🙂
I can relate to you on oh so many sentences in your post….I HATE MOVING!
favorite item….the kitchen!!!
I love my kitchen aid and use it almost daily! THanks for your great blog! kkpcaldwell@juno.com
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 pampered chef garlic press!
tnkjensen@comcast.net
Thanks! And welcome back!
I love my alligator chopper! Makes my cooking life so much easier! It’s a must have in any kitchen.
My BOSCH! How did I survive without it?
My favorite kitchen item is my wooden spoon (or any wooden utensil.) I’m glad you survived your move!
llary523@gmail.com
Welcome back! The two things that I could not live without are my kitchen aid mixer and my griddle. I love them both.
i can’t live without my knife set!
rema85@gmail.com
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.
traudta@hotmail.com
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.
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!!!?!
My favorite kitchen item is my silicone rubber scraper/spatula. I have 5 and manage to use them all most days. Thanks Christie christieae@yahoo.com
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!
I would love either of those items! My favorite kitchen utensil? It would have to be my Bosch mixer.
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 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 🙂
andyandjessie@gmail.com
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 our Miracle Blade knives. They truly are miracles!! 🙂
lindseyforrest at hotmail dot com
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 my KitchenAid. wendykatgee@gmail.com
I’d love to try out either one of your favorite kitchen gadgets! jeffhone@juno.com
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!
tiffanygasser32@gmail.com
Hmmmm, I love my kitchen-aid mixer and the food that goes in it!
Welcome back! I couldn’t live without my Bosch!!!
cnpocock@hotmail.com
Camille
I love my Kitchen Aid. I use it all the time
I love my Bosch mixer. I can’t imagine living with out it.
avlam13@yahoo.com
My kitchen aid spatula…
megjr21@yahoo.com