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2015 Holiday Giveaway

Posted December 14, 2015 by Stephanie
2015 i am a food blog giveaway

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.

braised chashu pork shoulder recipe - www.iamafoodblog.com

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.

mini puff pastry apple roses - www.iamafoodblog.com

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.

festive christmas popcorn and rice krispie mix - www.iamafoodblog.com

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.

mint marshmallow snowmen - www.iamafoodblog.com

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!

856 Comments

  1. Kristel says:

    It’s really difficult to rank these but one thing that I remember fondly was on New Year’s eve, a few times, my Dad would take me to watch the fireworks and we sat in the car drinking hot chocolate from his thermos, and that he definitely spiked with a splash of Bailey’s, despite my not being anywhere near legal drinking age.

  2. Brian says:

    Once when growing up, my mother decided to forgo all of our traditions and instead have lobster and pasta for dinner!

  3. Courtney says:

    My favorite holiday memory — there’s been quite a few. Of course all the decorating, baking and bonding have been great memories. However, I think one that means a lot to me is from when I was around 9 or so. My family has never had much money and I think things were particularly difficult that year. However, my grandma had been in touch or was friends with a family (who we never met) and they sent us a huuuge box of gifts for my sister and I. They said all their children were grown and away and they wanted to do something special. It was a total surprise for us. We were young kids and never seen that many presents before, so we were ecstatic. That lovely couple actually continued to send us gifts for a few more years after and I’ve always been so fond of that, strangers to us doing something so kind.

  4. Sarah says:

    My favorite memory was when I went hiking with my family. We found a small path and followed it for hours. It was snowing and we ended up building tons of stuff in the falling snow. It was so simple, yet so fun. It was followed up with lots of hot chocolate and marshmallows!!

  5. Annamarie V says:

    When I was around 6 we came to Washington from California to spend Christmas with my cousins and it was a rare year that they had snow. We have lots of pictures of all of us kids sledding down a hill including my Grandma and a giant snowman we made.

  6. W. Louie says:

    My favorite winter memory was the year 2008/early 2009. That was the time when I met the love of my life. It was the start of a journey of many new things, from experiencing new adventures to learning life lessons together. We shared our first kiss in the snow during a snowboard trip!

    Fast forward to 7 years later, we’re excited to be spending our very first winter together as an official married couple, with many more adventures uphead!

  7. Alline Saylor says:

    My brother and I were bad when it came to Christmas. We would coordinate every Christmas to wait till everyone fell asleep and we would go to the tree and shake the presents trying to figure out what we got. The planning was the funniest part now that I look back.

  8. Becca says:

    My favorite holiday memory is making christmas cookies with my mom, now my daughter and I carry on the traditon.

  9. Lynn Andrews says:

    My favorite holiday memories come from my family’s Christmas party. We go all out and do a combined talent show and gift exchange. One year, my aunt and uncle decided to do an old timey radio story presentation, sound effects and all, and it was hilarious. The family party is one of the things I really miss now that I live across the country.

  10. Geoff says:

    My favorite memory of Christmas was when I was a little guy, no more than 6 or 7. All my friends had picked up a Nintendo (old school 8-bit system, the NES), over the previous few years. I was the only one left of my friends to not have one. I would go over to thier houses and try to play. Enevitabley, they would end up playing and I would watch. It was killin me (I know, first world problems, huh?). So my Mum, or should I say, Santa, decided to fix that. On Chirstmas morning I woke up to find an NES system right there under the tree—Duck Hunt and Mario! It’s been a love for me ever since. I’m all grown up and still play video games (and I mean it in the best possible way… Seriously, I love um!). Thanks Mum!

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