It’s giveaway time! It’s a massive one guys and I’m pretty excited! For the past week or so I’ve been featuring recipes using Staub, Shun, Cuttingboard.com, Finex, and Kitchen Aid and now’s the time to finally bundle everything up and give it all away. Well, not literally, because you’re actually going to win new items, so there’s no real bundling, just figurative bundling.
win this staub!
I hope you’ve been following along – so far I’ve made Slow Braised Japanese Chashu Pork, Mini Puff Pastry Roses, Caramel Corn and Rice Krispie Mix, and Mint Snowman Marshmallows, but with these giveaway items you can make pretty much anything, which is perfect for the holiday season.
win this shun knife and cuttingboard.com boo’s block!
I love food – as I’m sure you know – and one of my favorite Christmas memories is of me, my brother, and Christmas chocolates. As little kids, come the first of December, we would get chocolate advent calendars. I still see them around now: those thin cardboard drugstore boxes featuring a Christmas picture with tiny numbered windows and chocolates hiding behind them. My brother and I lived for that moment at the end of the day when we got to pry open the cardboard for our long awaited treat. Our eager fingers would melt the chocolate ever so slightly as we tried to eat our chocolates as slowly as possible.
win this finex cast iron pan!
One year, we got it in our heads that we didn’t want to wait. We snuck our calendars down to the basement – it was cold and dark down there and I didn’t like it but my brother convinced me it was the best place to hide – and ate every single chocolate. We ate the entire month of December. And the thing is, we did it in a gentle, artful way where we could close back the windows so that at a casual glance, you couldn’t tell that the calendar was ravaged.
win this kitchen aid!
Maybe it was the sugar-high making us crazy, but we totally thought we got away with it. That is, until it was time for our nightly ritual with our parents. Needless to say, there was no chocolate treat that night. Or the next night, or the next. But, it was okay, because come Christmas morning, there were still presents under the tree. Apparently, our chocolate binge didn’t leave us on Santa’s naughty list, which was a huge relief, because, presents.
These days I’m more into giving than receiving so I couldn’t resist putting together this giveaway for you! I wish I could send everyone a Christmas present but since I can’t, I thought I’d do the next best thing and giveaway some of my favorite things. So, let me know your favorite holiday memory and maybe you’ll be the lucky reader who wins! Good luck!
Giveaway: I’ve teamed up with some of my favorite brands to do a massive giveaway. One lucky reader will win:
Staub 4 Quart Round Cocotte
Shun 6-inch Dual Core Utility Knife
Cuttingboard.com Boos Block Walnut 20×15 Cutting Board
Finex 10-inch Cast Iron Pan
Kitchen Aid Artisan Design Series 5-Quart Stand Mixer w/Glass Bowl in Pearl Silver
To enter: Leave a comment on the blog with your favorite winter holiday memory. I want to hear ALL the details! I’ll randomly choose a winner and notify them through email. Open to US residents only. (Sorry international friends, only American companies agreed to this one!) If you’d like some extra entries use the widget below to follow me on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. Contest ends December 21st at 12pm PST. Good luck!
The giveaway is closed! I’ll be announcing the winner in the next week or so after reading through all of the comments. Thank you everyone who entered! There are some beautiful memories here!
Update: Congrats Chelsea, you won! Look for an email from me shortly!
The anticipation as a kid, counting down the minutes until school ended and winter break began. Then seeing the whole neighborhood blanketed in snow, ready for snowmen and snow angels and sledding. Playing in the snow until my hands and feet were numb, just in time to come inside by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate and marshmallows. Everyone happy and free of stress.
making a 15 lb brisket sous vide and sharing with friends. Served with just white bread, sauce, and pickles
My favourite holiday memory is finding the perfect gift for the people i care about. I can really feel the connection between my mind and their’s when I’m picking out something special.
Baking cookies with family is my favorite memory!
Every year when I was a child, my mom would take me and my sister to the small local shopping mall where Santa would arrive by HELICOPTER! It was mind-blowing :)
Once with my parents, we went in holiday to go skiing. We arrived in our montain cabin but there was no electricity. So my father and I started to search the electric meter … we found a door under the montain cabin and started to remove snow by hand to open it. After much effort we succided, my father came down but find nothing.
I had to pull with all my strength so he can go back … during this time my mother found the electric meter in the kitchen ! Finally
We were exhausted but hilarious to have done all this for nothing , fortunately a hot chocolate (or hot wine) comforted us.
My favorite memories of the holiday season are my mom’s Hanukkah parties (friends, family, and the best latkes in the world) and going to get dim sum with my family on Christmas. I come from a bit of a unique background (we all do in our own way), and I love being reminded of my family’s special traditions during this time of year. Many of them revolve around food, which is part of the reason I love your blog! Keep up the good work!
While celebrating with my in-laws, all of the adults donned winter clothes and headed out into the backyard to build snowmen together. My brother-in-law built a GIANT snow-Godzilla with small snow people running in terror. It was the most fun I have ever had with my in-laws!
My favorite memory is going to my Great Grandmas house on Christmas morning and seeing rows of coffee cans lined up for the grand kids. My grandma made those chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies every year for us. She did this till she was well into her 90’s. When she died that 1st year, there were no cookies. My mom now makes them every year for us and I have taught my daughter how to make them also. It is a very simple cookie that everyone makes, but it is the memories attached to those cookies that make them special.
When I was young we spent the day at my grandmother’s. It snowed and we lost power. We stayed warm by the fire and lit candles to see as it became dark. It was a lovely memory!!