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!
Being with my family.
My favorite holiday memory is sitting with my mom waiting for the candles to burn out. We chatted and listened to the wolves howl. It was very peaceful.
My favourite holiday memory always revolves around snow! Anything to do with it :)
One year, like most kids probably, I surreptiously opened all my presents in the days before Christmas. It was quite a letdown to find out that Christmas morning isn’t that much fun, if you aren’t surprised. I never knew if my parents were aware of my actions or not.
My favorite Christmas memory is from when I was a child living in abroad in Germany with my family. I was about 5 or 6 years old and our first Christmas there was very different from Christmas in the states. I had to put my shoes outside on the front porch, because Santa put treats in them if you were good or coal in them if you were bad. We had a dog named Daume and he loved shoes… So before Santa could get to my shoes, Daume chewed them up and left them mangled on the front porch. When I went outside the next morning I thought for sure I had been extra bad to have Santa compelled to destroy my shoes!! But my parents artfully explained to me that it was only the most special of children who got their shoes chewed on by Santa’s reindeer… I didn’t throw those shoes away for several years… :-)
My favorite holiday memory is having my entire family home, especially family that had to travel to join the rest of the family. We began our tradition of celebrating Christmas on the 25th of December with the exception of each child having one gift to open on Christmas Eve. Eventually through the years, we began celebrating on Christmas Eve with present opening occurring Christmas Eve night after Christmas Eve dinner. To this day, this set up works perfectly because most of us then children have our own families or significant others and we are now able to spend Christmas with both families since Christmas Day is open.