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!
I remember one year getting to go into our garage to see our real gift from my parents. It was bicycles!
My family usually does a simple Christmas. I remember one year when my brother and i woke up, we couldn’t find our parents. I believe they went out to buy gifts (or at least I think they did. don’t know how they did that). We were quite confused since at there were no gifts in the Christmas tree. Suddenly they come storming through the door, bearing gifts! We were so surprised and loved our gifts. Totally worth the few moments of confusion
My favorite memory is just of my big family getting together–my father’s side of the family opening presents late into the evening on Christmas Eve, and my mother’s side of the family opening presents across town on Christmas Day. Sleeping on sleeping bags in the basement of my grandparents house that was full of people in every room!
Man o MAN. It’s dang hard to choose a favorite… Well first, When I was 4, my sister was born a few weeks before Christmas (today is her 18th b-day!!!) and it was the best gift I could have ever gotten. I thought she was a real life baby doll that I could play with 24/7. Literally, my 4-year-old self would somehow drag her out of the crib to play with her (momma didn’t like that..). My second favorite memory is from about 4 years ago. My fam didn’t have much money at the time, so gifts were slim to none. I was working though and was able to rescued an American Eskimo dog (look up a pic, they’re freakin cute) from a shelter to give to my 4 siblings on Christmas morning. Seeing their faces was seriously the best feeling ever! Last of all, COOKIES. I mean what amazing holiday memory doesn’t involve cookies somehow? I mean amiright or AMIRIGHT?!
Thanks for a chance to win awesome stuff Stephanie. You rock!! Enjoy this season and all the warm yummy things that come with it :D
My favorite holiday memory is cooking Taiwanese dishes with my mom. We would cook so much and eat all day. It’s amazing!
My favorite memory is building gingerbread houses that didn’t fit together. So we bridged the big gaps with candy and frosting!
My favorite holiday memory is jumping into the ocean each year (in New York City, it is cold!) on January 1st at the end of the holidays. It is cleansing, refreshing, and how I enjoy to start each new year after the busy holidays.
It was all about Christmas Eve in may family – tons of meatballs, cheese and fudge. What more do you need?
I used to try and stay up late on xmas eve with my sisters, listening for Santa. We never made it up too late, but it must have driven my parents crazy. We also would wake up super early in the morning, and run downstairs to see the stockings before my parents got up. We weren’t allowed to touch anything until 7 am (and when my Dad had his coffee). Christmas breakfast was always cinnamon rolls and fresh squeezed orange juice.
I must have been four or five (important background detail, we always opened presents on the 24th) and I opened a few little presents then I opened a little box that had plan tickets to Disneyland, my parents had already packed everything (I was itty) and put me in the car/plane and I woke up at Disney Land on Christmas morning. It was super magical and v v v well planned.