I promised another giveaway and here it is! This week, I have a lovely assortment of Microplane products for one lucky winner. I’ve been a Microplane user now for nearly ten years and love, love, love their kitchen tools. There’s nothing like their original rasp for grating fresh nutmeg and zesting citrus and the larger graters are fantastic for grating cheese, carrots, potatoes and more.
This gift basket includes one of those original rasps
There’s also their new adjustable cheese plane
The last thing in the basket is a Microplane pizza cutter
- To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post and share one gift you’re hoping to receive this holiday season (tangible or intangible).
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm eastern time on Saturday, December 10, 2011. Winner will be chosen at random (using random.org) and will be posted to the blog on Sunday, December 11, 2011.
- Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only (apologies to my more far-flung readers).
- One entry/comment per person, please.
For more opportunities to win Microplane products, make sure to like their Facebook page. They frequently host giveaways of their new and classic products.
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Mmmmm… cheese.
Oh, and I think I’d like cheese this year. Some nice Jarlsberg to shred over toast with a microplane.
What a lovely giveaway! Thank you for the chance. This Christmas, I hope I get a replacement batter paddle for my Kitchen Aid. Mine is all cracked and icky.
Hoping for lots of new kitchen towels!
those are nice prizes. I am hoping for a Kitchen Aid mixer this year
Love your site. I am hoping for a massage or some shelves for mission organization at my home. Cooking/canning is a huge way of life for me would definately use these.
~i just love these blogs!-for yule/solstice i would like to have the sauna house complete so we can steam ourselves!!~(& yeah for microplane!)(& punk domestics!)
Hoping to receive this Microplane set for Christmas! Love, love their products! Merry Christmas Everyone!
All of the above:)
I’m looking forward to sleeping in on Christmas as a present! But I’m still hoping to find an all clad 4 quart pan under the tree…
what a wonderful giveaway!!! pretty much everything i want for christmas this year is for my kitchen. really wanting a new set of pans or a good mixer. i’ve thrown several hints, but we’ll see if my husband has picked up on them.
Oh, this is an awesome giveaway, esp the cheese plane. This holiday season, the gift I’m hoping to receive is both direct and indirect, tangible and intangible: I want my boyfriend to get the job he’s interviewing for at a Philly non-profit. He loves the organization and would be incredible. *fingers crossed*
I’d really love a food processor! My blender was never great, and it’s dying and I’d like something with more functions.
I would love a girls getaway with my mom and sister to the annual crochet fest all expenses paid.
Looking forward to two weeks of rest!
What is random is that my mother was just asking me whether I still needed a microplane set. I definitely do.
I am completely in love with graters, this would be a great prize to win. Unfortunately, I would only get to enjoy them by watching the hubs use them, I am no longer allowed. Ouch! But I would get very good use out of the cutter, we do pizza Fridays quite often.
As for a gift that I really hope to get this holiday season, it is tangible. It is a pressure canner. I am almost positive that my father and step mother are going to get me one. I sure hope they do. I have already started planning and learning! My first endeavor will be canning broth…freezer is full! And the second will be canning dry beans so I have beans ready to go whenever I need them, no more store bought cans or frozen pre-cooked that I forgot to thaw!
Happy holidays
The one gift I hope to receive this holiday season is a canning party. My friends and I keep stating we want to do one, but we haven’t narrowed down a date. I need to learn more about canning and I have the space to host a party, so I really hope this can get down. This would be the ultimate gift for me.
Great contest.
I’m really hoping for a pressure canner!
I asked for a new camera so my fingers are crossed!
I have asked for a couple of special cookbooks. But my big gift will be a solar oven, I have saved up the money for it. I love microplane, this is a great giveaway.
I’m hoping to get a bigger/better kitchen to hold all of the gadgets I’ve asked for on my wish list!!
Honestly, a Microplane is on the top of my list! What a fantastice giveaway.
I have never seen a Microplane Pizza Cutter before. I would love to win this entire Microplane Gift set. One gift I am hoping to get from Santa is a Mandoline, a really good one.
I’d love this – would be a real knuckle saver! My hoped-for Christmas gift is a Le Creuset loaf pan. My loaf pan is long overdue for an upgrade!
Just ordered my Christmas gift. A new 50mm f/1.8 camera lens. Can’t wait to get it!
Mmmmmm….Microplane…. This year I’m hoping to get a Kitchen Aid mixer… most likely not, but a girl can hope.
I really want an Instax camera for Christmas!
What a great giveaway…I do not have any of these and would be a great gift to win!!:))
Besides peace on earth and goodwill to all men? I’d like an immersion blender and Just Dance 3 for the WII. Oh, and a microplane set of awesomeness!
wool socks. Lots and lots of wool socks!
I only wish for more good times with good friends in the coming year. And if I win the Microplane set, I’ll share with them.
Hah! I don’t know what I want for Christmas. That seems to be THE question these days. Mostly I want to see my daughter experience the magic of the season of Christmas, whatever that may be for her this year. I have all the “stuff” I could ever need (but these Microplane items sure would make time in the kitchen more fun!) Thanks!
I’ve gotten nearly everything I’ve really wanted over the past few years, so the gifts I want most are intangible ones–calmness and strength in particular. (Not that I’d turn up my nose at a Microplane gift basket, though!)
I wouldn’t mind receiving a nice long back massage…
I’m hoping that everyone on my gift list will enjoy — and let me know how they’ll use — the canning I’m giving as Christmas presents this year
the best gift I can receive this year, would be for my daughter and 3 grandchildren to be with us for Christmas. The gift basket would be great for cooking !!
thanks
Hoping for a big basket of beautiful yarn to keep my knitting fingers happy all winter long!
I am hoping to receive a rewarding job offer for Christmas…and I’m hoping I get it early. Other than a job…I already have health, love, peace and joy….
My wish list includes a sodastream! I want one so bad.
What a great give away! For Christmas I hope to get a little peace from my teenage daughter. I nice peaceful day… I can hope right?
i’m hoping Santa will bring me a new cutting board and a clean house. :/
I hope I get a Kindle Fire!
I would love a new sewing machine for Christmas…and some lovely microplane products
I am hoping for a graniteware canning pot so I can quart jars. And I would love my very own keurig.
I really want a new camera… a flip.. but any would make me hppy
I would like Ralph Fiennes. Clearly not getting that, but still want him! I’d also totally dig a box of Witman’s Sampler. YUM!
I would like to win this. I would love for Christmas to be healthy enough to go back to work- I have been home for 6 weeks.
I would like our whole family to be together this Christmas!
one gift I hope to receive? peaceful holidays. lots of sleep. magazine subscription or two. great, comfy socks. hard to stop at one.
Love your blog/facebook. Would love to win this. One gift I’d like to receive this year is an expensive cheese I’m too cheap to buy myself. Something in the $15 to $20 per pound range. Tomorrow I’m making some roasted pears with blue cheese.
I’m hoping to for quality time with the people I love this Christmas (family and friends). I can’t wait to cook for everyone and share the love around the table!!!
I am hoping to get the 4th burner on my stove fixed! I did all my canning this season with 2 small burners and 1 large- it made for some difficult times. Also a microplane gift set would be pretty fantastic.
I’m getting just what I want this year – time with my grad student daughter at Christmas and a weekend at the local hot springs with my sweetie-pie husband in January.
a new Lanz nightgown to chase the damp NW chill, cds, cookbooks, a monthly cleaning service (not gunna happen
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I, like so many others, am hoping for a Kitchen Aid stand mixer. Alas, I have no where to put it and an unemployed boyfriend. Maybe next year. *crosses fingers*
A family Christmas this year with lots of laughing and eating! Love being with my family.
I’d love to get a kitchen scale this year…I am baking more and more, and am ready to move on to the next level of accurate weighing vs. fluffing the flour and hoping you don’t get too much. And I really do love my Microplanes. More is definitely better, in this case!
I’d love a new hand mixer!
i was late to the microplane party. i have one that i got a year or so ago, and I AM IN LOVE WITH IT. i would love to have more! my one gift i’d love to get this year is a real cheese press. i’ve been learning how to make cheese, and i have a DIY one that works ok, but i’d love to have a real one. thank you for this contest!
Ooooo. I hope my friend Kara makes her delicious salted caramels with lavender! Yum.
Oh gosh! It was so hard to come up with a Christmas list this year, I’ve had such a good year already. I would most like to receive a better, larger tv (though I know that’s not in the cards at the moment). Maybe Santa will surprise me!
I’m looking forward to spending time at home with my family!
This is a wonderful give away. I would love to have these items but I think they would be wonderful in a college dorm. So if I win them I will either give all of them or share them with my daughter in college. Thank you for the chance!!
I am really hoping to get some nice big stockpots to make my canning next year a lot easier.
Thank you for the giveaway. I think this is my favorite blog!
All I want for Christmas this year is to sleep in with my love and eat good food all day!
I’m thinking a Berkel Meat Slicer would be mighty nice.
I’m hoping santa brings the flour bakery cookbook, a big mixing bowl and the original Microplane!
Super cool set! For christmas, I’m hoping for a new ipod to replace my broken one- its from the generation with the faulty headphone jack. :/
I would love to be given something homemade this year! I’ll be giving lots of my canning products and I would love to get something from someone else’s kitchen.
I would love a le cruset dutch oven from santa. Or a new and fancy nikon camera!
A good future for my niece would be nice. She’s a sweet kid becoming an adult in a very interesting and unsure time.
Hoping for a good/protective iPad stand for the kitchen. Open to suggestions…
The big gift i hope to get is new books!
Thank you for hosting this giveaway. I’m hoping for a garden gnome and a canning themed apron!
I would love love love this microplane set! What a lovely giveaway! What I want for Christmas is a trip (driving) to Texas, to visit 5 of my 9 grandkids, and my 2 daughters and their spouses. Can’t wait because its happening! WhooHoo!!! Merry Christmas!!
I would like a salad spinner. And Barbie stickers. The pizza cutter looks like a neat tool!
i would really like a pasta maker.
I honestly haven’t thought about anything I would like for Christmas. I’m sure if I thought about it I could come up with something, but I just haven’t done that! But without even thinking about it I know what I would want if I had that microplane – a lemon-zested bundt cake!!
This year for Christmas. I want a happy husband and kids and a clean house.
What fun tools! I’m hoping for a few cookbooks–King Arthur Flour’s Whole Grain Baking is the one I can remember right now.
I’m hoping to receive a Le Creuset french oven – though microplanes are also on my list.
I was just looking at these in a friends catalog, but my wish for Christmas is to have anything for my kitchen (have to start all over again)
All I want for Christmas is a replacement for my beloved Food Network rubber spatula, which I used for scraping out the Cuisinart one too many times!!
I would love to get my house cleaned for Christmas.
The Mister and I were just talking about getting some Microplane graters!
The last couple of years I’ve given family jars of jams and pickles. I’d just like to get my jars back!
Didn’t know that Microplane made a pizza cutter, and one that comes apart to boot. Might be just the thing for my pizza-loving boyfriend! For Christmas, I’m hoping Santa will bring me a trip to somewhere warmish in the new year. I’d settle for a little more peace and love among folks though.
I’d like to have a Christmas Eve (Seven fishes) and Christmas Day where all the family is healthy and happy. Haven’t been able to get everyone together this year without someone being sick.
Those are some awesome prizes!
I’m hoping for some of my fine china this year.
Aha! We don’t buy or exchange gifts for Christmas for the past 10 years or so. What we do is drop into a waffle house on Christmas morning and leave a $100 tip for our waitress. I always hope that it is just the amount of money to keep her head above water and certainly to float hope out of poverty. If you’ve worked as a waitress at WH, you know what I mean. Great giveaway, btw!
Kat- I used to be a waitress and that would have been something so great! It’s not a glorious job to have but you do have to be hard working. What a great way to spread some cheer!
A job offer for post-graduation? But seriously, I’m really hoping for a soda siphon. No more lugging bottles of seltzer on the back of the bike!
The “plane” truth is, it would be “grate” to win this package…
I’m hoping to get a new TV for Christmas!!
I asked for a cheese plane for Christmas…so this giveaway would be great. I’m also hoping for some new running gear!
That basket looks awesome! I really want a Starbucks gift card for Christmas. I love going there and it’s even better if it’s “free.”
Lokking forward to Santa bringing a Kureig and any enamaled cast iron pot is wondeful to cook in!!!!
I guess I am way out dated here in our little home town… Never even heard of Microplane… ;( And for Christmas this year we are just buying a few small things for our kids…
For Christmas, I’d like some beginner sewing books, since I just bought my first sewing machine– time for even more things handmade!
I would love it if my toddler learned how to sleep through the night. That would be the best Christmas gift EVER!
This would take care of several things for me. My daughter and I love cheese but use a paring knife. Whenever I need to zest something I scrape away with a fork and we LOVE pizza around here. That pizza cutter would work awesome for cutting homemade pasta too! **crossing my fingers for the win**
One gift that I would love is to see my mother. She lives in Mexico and is unable to fly due to medical complications. I have been unable to travel due to my citizenship process. We Skype whenever possible but I want to hug her.
I’d love to win even just the rasp, but the whole package would be wonderful! The gift my husband and I are waiting for this year is the birth of our first child. Our baby boy is scheduled to arrive on the Solstice, and I can’t think of a more amazing Christmas present!
I am wishing for happy holidays with my family and friends.
I am hoping to receive a couple new preserving cookbooks to fuel my canning addiction. And have fingers crossed my boyfriend’s artisan candle biz has a good season!
Love these! I really want some doughnut pans for Christmas. I want to try some GF ones.
What a fun giveaway! It’s generous enough to keep some and share some, too.
I’d like to share my Christmas wish with my truly better half Eddie, that he has
a wonderful holiday this year and, God willing, is here to celebrate next year, too!
I’ve always wanted a brand new car with a giant red bow on it, like the ones you see in the commercials. I told my husband this, he said good luck with that. When I was a teenager I told my mother I wanted a car for Christmas. She bought me Hot Wheels. While I was disappointed, I still appreciated the awesome burn.
I am hoping to get some books this year (and the microplane basket!).
I have my eye on a few cookbooks, some bike accessories, and gifts of food are always appreciated!
I already have graters and a microplane that I adore, but I would love to give these to my sister as a gift!
ooh, fun giveaway! this year i am hoping to get (and i think i am receiving) one of those cool apple-shaped cast iron dutch ovens that lodge makes. so pretty!
Thanks for another awesome giveaway! This year I am hoping for my new lens for my camera, but I am undecided between getting a wide angle lens or trying something completely new and getting a Lensbaby.
This looks amazing. I’m giving away lemon curd…and want a bunch of Meyer lemons and fresh figs.
This year I am hoping to spend Christmas morning with my new fiance, just me and him.
A microplane would sure help with all the holiday zesting! I will be in Cambodia over the holidays sourcing and buying yummy Kampot pepper so I hope for a safe trip and lots of new culinary experiences!
I’m hoping for a new phone for Christmas!
I’m hoping to get some Joel Salatin books and a folding card table.
I don’t know what *I* want but I figured out what to get everyone else….so maybe a peaceful, unrushed holiday season will do – time to bake some batches of cookies with my girls. We love Microplane in our house too!
What a wonderful giveaway. The top wish on my list this year is a scroll saw. Saw my santa looking at the sale ad and then mysteriously had to run an errand. I think I just might find it under the tree Christmas morning.
All I want for Christmas is a stress-free move out of my current apartment, and then happiness in my new place. If all goes to plan, then I’m splurging on a KitchenAid mixer in cherry red to celebrate! Microplanes would be a great companion!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Lovely!
Then, I could concentrate on work in the kitchen!
Hoping to have the time to finish building a new front door by Christmas.
Cheers!
I only have 1 microplace but it’s incredibly useful and versatile – it amazes me how revolutionary they have been.
To be a complete downer and sap (sorry), I’d like my little old lady cat to live happily another couple of months.
Fabric is at the top of my tangible list, and my family in the center of God’s will is my intangible.
I love Microplane, I have a couple already…but you can always use more! This year for Christmas I want a nice 20 degree and sunny day for a ski. Happy Holidays Marissa!
What a fabulous giveaway. I’m new to canning do I asked my husband to stuff my stocking with some basic canning supplies like a magnetic lid picker upper, jar grabber, funnel, timer, etc.
Oh, for this holiday season I’d like for my family to not give me any gifts, because they are terrible gift givers. What I’d really like more than anything though, is for me to not feel left out of all the holidays, being a person who chose to become a jew to marry my husband, but still missing the festivity of Christmas at this time of year.
Sleek yet warm winter gloves would be nice… and thanks, for this contest.
I hope I get Martha Stewart’s new book.
and a maid.
I am hoping for some new baking sheets. KIlled my last cheap air-bake making the turkey for Thanksgiving. A cutting board, some new knives or a new roasting pan would be great too.
Looking forward to the gift of spending at least one more Christmas with my 95 year old grandma-in-law.
I’m really hoping for a tripod for my camera.
I would really love to get a new blender or mixture but I am just not sure it is a justifiable expense along with everything else we need!!!
What a great give-away! I could really use those tools! Every year my Christmas list seems to include at least one cookbook. This year I really want “Handheld Pies” by Rachel Wharton…and ecookbooks.com even has it on sale!!
Nice! Not only do I hope to win this, but I’d also love a trip to the Caribbean, not sure which is more likely!
I hope to win the microplane gift pack. I’ve been wanting a new one for awhile now. All are lovely, but the microplane would do me just fine. lol Merry Christmas everyone.
All I want for Christmas is for my fiance not to have to go to overseas for a year. But since he’s on his way there now, I guess I’m going to settle for some new recipes and kitchen gadgets to occupy my time instead.
For Christmas this year I would like to have a new vacuum, or a new gas stove. Maybe a new fridge. We’ll see…I won’t hold my breath, just in case.
p.s. thanks for the chance to win! I love Microplane!
The tools look lovely! I’m wish wish wishing I’ll get a new DSLR!
I would love to win a new kitchen item. I always look forward to new tools for the kitchen.
What a great gift basket! We don’t buy presents for each other at Christmas anymore, our kids and our foster kids have big wish lists!!! We usually get something for each other at our anniversary later in the year.
I’m hoping to learn that my first grandchild is on the way.
I would really like a food processor….
I would appreciate any new kitchen tool for Christmas. This microplane assortment would make me very happy. Thank you for this giveaway!
I would like health for my loved ones and I, oh and bit of cheese on the side would be excellent too.
a whetstone!
I bought my first house this year (a 1928 Florida bungalow) but the chimney is in disrepair… I can’t afford to fix it this winter, so I really want a fire pit for my back yard! I’d love to sit under my live oak and cozy up to a little fire on chilly nights this winter.
Oooh – so many things – LOL! Really, just hoping for an upgraded sewing machine, but would be thrilled if just once hubby would get me something all by himself – LOL! Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous set! Love my mini, but would love to play with all these goodies!
Hugs
nette
I would like to have my family all together for Christmas!
Lots and lots of chocolate!
For this Christmas, I want some time to myself that can be used for crafting and cooking!
im hoping to spend alot of time with my boyfriend and everyone there for the winter break from college!
I’m hoping this holiday season is peaceful, quiet, and full of happiness. This is my first year spending the entire holiday season away from family but I’m looking forward to new traditions.
ohh what an awesome give away! Could put all of that to good use! This xmas I am not asking for anything. As long as I have a roof over my head, food in my belly and a healthy husband with a paying job, I think that is the most I could ask for with the kinda last couple of years we have had…..but i wouldnt mind if someone got me some rot gut hickory farms cheeseball and salami stick
I am hoping to finally get a bread machine – specifically one with a gluten free setting.
For Christmas, I would like to be around family and friends with lots of laughter.
i also really want a soda siphon! crossing my fingers
I would love to get good grades in my classes this term. That would be a great Christmas present!
I would love anything handmade! Most importantly I get to spend Xmas with the love of my life and my biggest crush in 7th grade (thanks Facebook!) who, unfortunately lives 5000 miles away on the other side of the Atlantic.
I have one microplane, but I use is so much it’s always dirty, and the other tools great! A second would be awesome, or a pair of sexy but comfortable black dancing shoes. Or, if you really want to spoil me, Lady Gaga’s wardrobe.
Hmm, I am looking for world peace. Given that likelihood at the moment, I’ll settle for a warm fire, and some time well spent with family & friends. Cheers!
Ohhhh!!! I sooooo need a microplane grater!!!
For christmas I would like my brother to fly home- even if it’s just for the 24 hours he has off from work so we can all be together this year… would be the first christmas as a family in 5+ years! sigh… one can hope! come on Santa… I’ve been a good girl!
I’m hoping to receive an electronic musical device! (aka ipod!)
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I would like a new microplaner for lemons, mine broke and I am lost without it. Also I need new socks!
I’m dropping hints for a new blanket and some Smartwool socks. It’s cold here!
I’m hoping for some headphones to listen to my iPhone with.
If I were wishing for wrapped things under the tree, a cast-iron lidded casserole or a food processor would help me evolve my bread-making, but really I am wishing for a job, since I am unemployed and living off savings.
I’m hoping to receive some cute jars. I mean, really, can you ever have enough?
I love my small microplane and bought one for my daughter for Christmas. I’d love this whole set; the hard cheese grater looks wonderful!
My best Christmas gift would be organic seeds to start my spring garden. I’m already dreaming of what I’ll be canning next summer. Of course, there are many intangibles that I wish for my family, loved ones and community.
Thanks for this give-a-way!
So excited to see my family in Ireland. There is no greater gift than being with your loved ones!
What a great basket! I have only one microplane and its not working very well anymore! The gifts I am asking for is one, that my son’s thumb is able to be repaired and that researcher’s are able to tame cancer. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!
I’m hoping for a Kindle fire for Christmas but a microplane would be freaking great! I’m always putting it on my list but never buy one.
Oh, how I love Microplane products. I use the rasp I got for a wedding present so often. And for Christmas, my family here, at my new house that we just moved into.
A gift certificate to a grocery store (whole foods)
i would love a real vacation. think everyone could use one…
What great products…I could be just like the pros with them!
I love these products. First heard about them at a class in French Braising taught at Cambridge’s Rialto.
An extra large muffin pan!! No, a pressure canner!! Oh boy, either one of these would be great!! LOL!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to win this!
I am hoping that I get a new food mill for christmas. Fingers crossed!
Great tools. There is nothing like some wonderful cheese to go with the mulled wine I am giving friends this Christmas!
Mine’s more a New Years hope than a X-Mas wish … for a turnaround in the economy. Too many people being hurt too deeply.
Awesome giveaway….will be gathering with family in AZ…it will be a first in such a long number of years…a wonderful gift for us all
i would like the same thing i want every christmas and birthday, art supplies, so i can continue making cool things.
I have the blue chair fruit cookbook on my xmas list this year!
Would love a microplane! That and some new wool sox in my stocking would be just about perfect!
Not really hoping for anything in particular. Hubby’s in Kuwait and I have no idea what the in-laws will give. But I can hope to win the contest!
Honestly, nothing I can think of offhand. I suppose to lose more weight would be swell.
I would love a cookbook that shows me all the different ways to make pasta. And of course some Microplane items would also be awesome as I don’t have any of these items.
I’m hoping to get Settlers of Catan!
I’m looking forward to receiving some yarn to feed my knitting addiction.
What a great giveaway. This Christmas my kids will be home so I will have my Christmas present!
Hoping that my chest scan and blood work (for breast cancer) remains clear at my January oncology appointment!
Well, I just got married a month ago and everyone gave us the kitchen stuff on our wishlist so for the Holiday Season I’m hoping for the magical cabinet fairies to give us more space in the kitchen.
I’ve been looking for a better way to cut the cheese…/snort
Love my microplane zester.
This Christmas I’m hoping to get a pressure canner so I can move into canning even more items that I love to eat and share with friends and family!
I am wishing for two weeks of rest and that those two weeks go by very slowly.
I’m hoping for a pair of footy pajamas.
I have a few cookbooks on my list…
I was just saying that I really needed a microplane. So useful and versatile. I really do not NEED anythigng for Christmas, but my daughter getting accepted to Westchester University for spring semester would be very nice.
I just “discovered” microplanes this year. I’d heard about them for years, of course. But I never bought myself one until this year. I like the way it lets me zest an orange or lemon. For Christmas…hmmm…I’ve given up wanting things for myself. I love books about food, although not necessarily cookbooks. I’m currently reading through the one about mushrooms, “Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms”. If I could have one gift, it would be to have all 3 of my children and 3 grandchildren home together again this year.
World peace–I ask for it every year, and I’m still waiting. Microplane products would be a close second.
Family time!
I’d like Peace on Earth…and the time and energy to finish canning the apples. Yeah, that’d be great.
I’m hoping to get a Silhouette Cameo.
The only thing I want for Christmas this year is for my husband to keep to his job.
I really just want to see my children’s faces on Christmas morning, But I know I am getting America’s test kitchen 2011 recipe book and videos my husband made me order it for myself lol….
I have been mostly good this year with some occasional transgressions, so I have asked Santa for a Kitchen-Aide stand mixer (in red of course). I love my one Microplane tool and think having an entire assortment would be greatly fun and useful.
I’m hoping to get some clean make-up from W3ll People and an Amazon gift card to reload my Kindle.
Love these graters! Anything for Christmas would be great…..maybe just free of stress would be the best gift!
Hoping for a sourdough kit from King Arthur Flour
I am hoping that my 2 year old son’s CT scan on the 15th comes back with a report that there is no cancer. That will make 6 months cancer free for Christmas!
Since my old canner no longer is able to “can”, a new canner would be lovely! Thank you so much for this lovely Gift Basket Giveaway!
I’m hoping to get to meet my grand niece for Christmas or perhaps shortly after that!
I’m hoping to get some time with my brother who wants help learning to bake snickerdoodles.
Ohhh …microplane graters > the best!!! I just want all of my family around my dining room table for Christmas breakfast!
What I really want for Christmas is my husband to find a job he’ll love. I’m actually hoping Santa delivers that one a bit early.
These are great, and I would love to get them for Christmas! Other than that I’m just looking for the gift of time with my family.
I’m REALLY hoping for a meat grinder for my kitchenaid mixer!
I’m hoping for a new camera or some ramekins!
Great giveaway! I want a happy, peaceful day spent with family.
I would l-o-v-e for my hubby to be willing to part with stuff we don’t need or probably won’t use (or miss). Let them bless someone else who can use them! That’s my intangible.
I can’t really think of anything I want… maybe a Starbucks card? Oh, I know… lots of inspriring posts from Food in Jars for the coming year! Now that is one gift I know I will get!
I would really love to have all my kids under one roof for Christmas. But since that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, a microplane gift basket would make me happy too
For Christmas, I’m really hoping that I can finish all the things that I had made new years resolutions to to finish at the beginning of the year.
What a nice giveaway! I hope I win! I have asked for a pair of Deer Stags Slipperooz slippers and/or gift cards to my grocery store for Christmas. Things are tight and I’m being practical this Christmas. Happy Holidays to all!
I’d really like more free time to work on all the cooking and craft projects I want to try
What I want for Christmas is time to make memories with family over the holidays.
I want Christmas to be full of joy, laughter and gratitude.
I have Microplane’s citrus grater – but clearly I am missing out on the rest of their stuff! I am hoping my first batch of airlock sauerkraut goes well enough to give as gifts…
The one gift I hope to receive is my sons time! It is a “cat’s cradle” in reverse situation!
I hope I get a bicycle! But this gift basket looks amazing too!
if not peace on earth then maybe peace of mind….Merry Christmas
I’m hoping I get refreshed at Christmas.
I would like to give some jam to my in-laws this year. We made some nice peach blackberry pie filling as well, so I will be making a lot of pie
I’m hoping for an Ipad 2… so I can follow this great blog when I’m on the road.
Merry Christmas to all…
Hoping for a butter dish from etsy!
This is definitely on my wish list!
this is a great giveaway…i think this season i am hoping to get some new books and maybe something sweet and small from my kids.
All I want for Christmas is a small farm. Dream big, right?
I would love to receive a Julienne Peeler, or a Kindle but my best gift is all my kids home on Christmas morning
Great Gifts, Thanks for the chance to win
I’d love to have our baby born before the end of the year! Thanks for the giveaway.
I’m hoping for a gift certificate for Brooklyn Kitchen so I can take some classes or stock my larder!
I’d love to get a new mixer, mine is 28 and showing extreme wear. It has all kinds of attachments, so when it goes I will be bereft but staunch: I still have a kitchen so I can adapt! My previous favorite gift has been my ‘first’ dishwasher because I use it every day with a thankful heart. Yeah, I could do it by hand but oh, how nice to NOT.
I’d love a sodastream so I don’t need to lug crates of seltzer up to my apartment!
Nice gift basket! I’ve yet to try microplane products…
What I am hoping and wishing for this year is mainly a food mill with all the different disks. A maker and lover of jams and jellies, it is something I could really, really use in the kitchen that I can’t bring myself to buy for myself.
I’m hoping Santa brings me a new desk chair. The one I have is making my back hurt. I recently purchased a pizza cutter similar to the one from Microplane. I use it to cut fudge and carmels. So far, I’m loving it.
I am hoping for some time off work to spend it with my best friend and love of my life. Need to recharge the batteries to get ready for 2012.
I am hoping for a steam mop…this would REALLY be wonderful as I have a daycare in my home and I want to be as chemical free as possible!
I would love if Santa left a Kitchenaid mixer under my tree, even if it is vintage, or old, or has a blown motor (I’ll rebuild it) or even new (the kind that comes in a box). If I get a Microplane, it would come as a close second so I can put some fresh nutmeg on my nog.
I asked for a handheld GPS unit so my family can continue to geocache. Also, I need new measuring spoons and cups…. they are dying from my bridal shower 8 years ago. =(
OOohh! I would love to win this Microplane Gift Basket! I have started buying cheeses in whole form & grating as needed so we can avoid adding cellulose & other additives.
I have a bunch of cookbooks on my list as well as Rancho Gordo’s Year of Beans program… which I may end up buying for myself.
I’m hoping to get an electric frying pan like the one my mother had when I was growing up. It’s so versatile.
Curious to try that rasp, never seen one used in the kitchen.
The cheese knife is great, When my youngest son was little, he loved cutting the cheese. NO PUN INTENDED. He got his very own cutter for Christmas. It lasted for almost 14 years in our home… Would be great to have one of these little packages to give to him again! My Christmas list is short this year, I only want to see our 5 children in the same room for Christmas! And lots of Joy!
Green Bay Packers stock from the shareholder sale today!
I hope to receive some gift cards to some stores so I can keep organizing my closets and kitchen areas.
I’m hoping for an All American pressure canner. I’ve used my Presto for 30 years and I’m tired of buying gaskets.
I’m hoping to get a food mill for Christmas!
i’m hoping for some new cookbooks.
I am using my one microplane to grate limes for diy Velvet Falernum today!
I am hoping for peace this holiday.
Would love to make my Microkitchen a Microplane Kitchen!
WOW! What a fantastic giveaway!! I asked Santa C. for a Kindle Fire and some canning cookbooks. Plan on doing it up big in our garden this spring and going to can alot of the bounty!
i’d like an iPad2. And a pressure-cooker/canner.
This is a great give away! I’m hoping for a Kitchen Aid stick blender because I loaned mine to my mom, who loaned it to my niece, who swears she gave it back to mom…long story short, it has disappeared.
I accidentally left my nutmeg grater while visiting friends and family in the NC mountains last December and would love this giveaway of graters since they have multiple uses in the kitchen. For Christmas I hope to receive notice that my daughter has time off work over the holidays so we can visit the mountain house again this season so I can spend some quality time with my foodie daughter and maybe get snowed in again while we cook up some scrumptious meals.
I am hoping to receive a guitar for Christmas. I have been studying books for a few months and cannot wait to start practicing for real.
AAH love to get those cookbooks. but a microplane would be just awesome. Didn’t know they did a pizza cutter. What a neat idea. Happy Holidays to all
I’m hoping for a steam mop. I guess I’ve finally transitioned into boring adulthood!
I hope I get a sewing machine for Christmas. I want to switch from paper knapkins and towels to cloth ones to be more green.
-Cat Slate
I would love a new pasta set — bowls, serving bowl, and platter… and a job.
hey all! Your toffee recipe is the first candy recipe I actually think I could make! I was instilled with a nasty fear of candy making, what with the candy thermometers and what not. Also…I love kitchen gadgets…thanks for your post!
this holiday season… I want a day of relaxation. That’s it. I actually want a spa day with manicure, pedicure and a massage. And wine. With some cheese. That’s all I want in life.
That our layovers in Milwauke don’t turn into extended stays due to snow!
Wow! What a lovely assortment of good looking tools! My son just moved out and we provided him with essentials so we actually need these things! Love your blog.
I would love a new purse and wallet!
My wish for this Christmas gift is the entire family will be healthy (and a couple of cookbooks thrown in would be nice also)!
I’m hoping for a new camera!
What a great giveaway – five items that I actually DON’T have in my kitchen! For Christmas this year, I’d like some Burts Bees products. It sounds silly but I love their stuff, and I never justify buying it for myself.
I LOVE your site–I reference it all of the time!
This year I’m hoping (my Christmas wish) to perfect my jam making skills…and with all of my plans leading up to the big day, I should have just the right amount of practice to do so! Thanks for the inspiration!
What an amazing giveaway!
I actually have a fine grater from microplane (for parmasean) on my list this year — so if I won I’d give it to my mom!
I’m hoping for a Kindle Fire… but would LOVE these microplanes just as much!
A manicure/ pedicure treat would be nice!!!
I hope Santa brings me a new Stainless Steel Ball canner!
Great giveaway!
For Christmas this year, I would like more time spent with family and friends.
I asked for a microplane actually
This Christmas, the best gift would be time with family. I just love having days off in a row with my husband and daughter.
I love my Microplane fine rasp, this giveaway is awesome! I’m hoping for a couple of books to help me improve my photography skills.
This gift looks awesome! I’m hoping for a warm puffy down jacket this Christmas. Not sure if I’ll need it though with all of this mild weather!
I’d like a morning with my son, shopping at the Persian markets: I’d learn a lot about cooking! For material goods, I’d like a Viking mixer, to replace my Delonghi: the beaters are peeling – ugh!
Fabulous giveaway!! You know why? because it’s a microplane that I’ve been asking for!
I’m hoping to receive some leisurely coffee date time with my sister.
I love the Christmas season! I would simply like to spend time with all of my family.
Thank you for this great opportunity!
I am getting the one gift that I really want. I wanted both of my children and their families to be here at the same time. It hasn’t worked out the past few years. This is the year and I am sooooooooooooo excited!!
I’m hoping to receive the gift of seeing some old friends!
I’m hoping for many amazon gift cards. And world peace…
I hope to get a healthy new baby.
I’m hoping for a dish washing machine, never had one! Love your blog, just started canning at the end of this summer and I LOVE it!
I agree with many others…what a nice gift. I would like the gift of time with my family and a bit for myself to catch up on some projects.
Hoping for a Kindle and a new toaster oven this year! If I win these, they will make a great Christmas present!
Great Giveaway! For this Christmas, I’m hoping for a picture of my boyfriend and me in our matching Christmas pajamas. Maybe there’s enough eggnog to make him sit for this picture! LOL
I’m wishing for a new suitcase and more travel in the new year!
I love to receive any kind of gift baskets because the are an assortment of what the gift giver loves!!
The one gift I was hoping for I already got! I wanted a KitchenAid mixer, and my mom and I found one super on sale Black Friday so she bought it for me.
And I love those rasps. I use mine to grate garlic all the time. Works fabulous.
I’m hoping for more good times with friends and family in the coming year.
And a new chef’s knife!
I’m not really wishing for anything this year for myself (no extra money). I’m hoping that my kids are still happy even though it’s a scaled-down Christmas this year. I’m sure they will be!!
I hope to receive some linoblock cutting tools so I can start block printing and open my own etsy store!
I’m hoping for a crock pot this year, so I can make some yummy winter stews.
Thank you!
I would love to get a food slicer. But I doubt that I will get one; my wife is weary of me always being in the kitchen!
I’m wishing for a mandoline. And I have to check out that pizza cutter! Have been using the original rasp for years.
What a lovely giveaway — thank you for posting and hosting it!
One thing I’m hoping to get for Christmas this year is plenty of quality time with my husband’s family and friends in Oklahoma City. Oh, and an Italian-English dictionary, to help me memorize useful phrases for my upcoming trip to the Boot in January!
i would love to be entered for this and what i would really like is a pressure cooker/canner but i don’t think i will be getting but that is ok tax time i will try again. lol
I’d love a microplane for Christmas, ha, ha! But seriously, I’d like the promise that 2012 will not be as hard as 2011 has been. Please, please, I need a year to recover.
Most of all I want a clean, organized house for Christmas. But, since there’s not much chance of that, a microplane sure would make me happy.
I am looking forward to greeting my new grand daughter who has yet to make her appearance
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A facial and a pedicure so I can look fabulous while I am cooking!!
I am hoping for a new pair of winter boots but a diamond and pearl ring would be nice too.
Would love to win this giveaway. My micro plane has a cracked handle. I am hoping to get some Tattler reusable canning lids this year. Good luck everyone!
I don’t need many gadgets but I’ve been looking for a good microplane for a while. These would be SWEET! Crossing my fingers….
I am hoping for a new cake stand this year. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
with my family and friends so far flung around the country – all I really want for christmas is a long day of eating and drinking with my loved ones. but I’ll also be happy to receive any number of kitchen implements!
I don’t expect to receive any gifts. Except some cash from my parents.
I’m hoping for a stainless steel immersion blender. My old plastic one does not do well in a pot of molten hot soup.
Well, I can always hope for peace on Earth, but I’ll settle for peace in my heart. And an electric pressure cooker. It makes bean dishes ALOT easier!
I’m hoping for a Shun chef knife this year!
I’d love to get a new blender for channukah!
I love my microplane. I would like some unusual beans from Rancho Gordo for my holiday gift.
Awesome giveaway! I already got the one big thing I wanted this year, a new butcher block island for my kitchen – it required a small road trip down to the Ikea in Conshohocken, thus the reason I have it already
but other than that I am wishing for a happy and healthy new year with friends and family – that would be a wonderful gift. This past year saw me in the hospital for severe kidney infection and sepsis (…I was very, VERY sick), then my mom had a kidney stone, I turned 30 while half my hair was falling out from the physical toll my sickness took on my body, and my husband lost his job. Needless to say, I think the best gift is this year ending and hopefully 2012 being a much, much better one. 
What a lovely gi
ft… I want a new kitchen and peace
I would love to have my Dunkin Donuts gift card recharged.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. This is an exciting gift basket!
I would love to get a trip to the salon!
Microplanes are awesome! I’ve never seen some of the items you have. For Christmas I told my husband I wanted him to finally install wireless internet (so I wouldn’t have to wait for him to finish working to check out amazing blogs like this one). Ho! Ho! Ho!
Hi..i am hoping for a laptop
I’m hopeful for the gift of time for a nap this Christmas! Oh, and cheese, lots and lots of cheese, maybe fondue too
For my hubby to suffer less from health issues and be healed. For our kids to be forgiving, get long and enjoy each other.
Thank you for hosting the giveaway! My “hidden heartbeat” wish for myself this holiday season is that I am blessed with patience. Seems that I have been a tad lacking lately!
Perhaps my list should go something like this: “Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Microplane gift basket.”
But more seriously, I’m hoping to get a lovely grain mill. 
My husband and I usually get each other weekends away somewhere for xmas. Looking forward to seeing what he picks this year!
Great items! I am hoping for the juicer attachment for my kitchenaid mixer.
great giveaway! i’m hoping my brother, who has been in iraq the past year, makes it home for christmas. that would be the bestest gift ever!
I’m really hoping for a subscription to Jamie Oliver magazine.
Beautiful- I love my original microplane, I had no idea they made so many other products. The one gift I’m hoping for this christmas is a new fish spatula.
All of these would be great to receive for Christmas … but I’m really looking forward to having my entire family together for the Christmas holiday … that’s my real gift
hopin for the ipad 2 heheh
Ooh, would love a micro plane. The one thing I really want this year is a bigger stockpot. I just can’t make enough stock in my 8 qt.
Your website has inspired many moments in me this past year – thank you many times over. My Christmas wish this year is for quiet time with my 20 year old twins who are at different colleges but coming home for the holidays. I would share the basket between us all as they are still setting up their own kitchens and have become good cooks. Thanks, Chris
What an awesome giveaway! I am hoping for a new DSLR camera for Christmas. My husband and I are expecting our first child in a few months and would love a nice camera to take some amazing pictures of him. Happy holidays to all!
I would love to spend some time with my Grandson and help him to make some Holiday Cookies. Thanks for hosting this giveaway…
My daughter to move closer to where I live. I live in Texas and she lives in Colorado.
Snow! I can’t be ready for christmas without it.
I love to cook and yesterday my oven crashed & died. I’m hoping that I get a new one…soon! That would make my Christmas so that I can make others their Christmas.
I hope to be given a soda stream.
For Christmas, I’m asking for canning jars.. all shapes & sizes! I can always use more! I’m sure you all can relate…
I would like to get a kindle fire
Kid you not but a microplane IS on my Christmas list. HA!
Quiet time during all of the Christmas hustle and bustle!
I’ve been hoping for a microplane (original rasp) but I had no idea all these other awesome products existed! This Christmas the biggest thing I’m looking forward to is introducing my fiance to my family’s Christmas traditions. I’m hoping that he loves Christmas in my home town.
Lovely giveaway! This holiday I’m looking forward the gift of time–to make cookies with my 3 little ones!
I am hoping for a pressure canner… I am new to canning but am in love with it…
An ipad, or good kitchen knives
Great giveaway! A new microplane set would be great! A new pair of warm pajamas is also on my list.
I’m hoping for a sewing machine for Christmas. 2012 will be my year of crafting!
I hope that my new knee replacement stops hurting long enough for me to get all my holiday cooking done. I’m in charge of desserts and cookies for the inlaws party, not to mention the cooking for my own family. Very difficult to stand for longer than an hour. Give me strength for Christmas.
What a great giveaway!
For Christmas, I would love to get a new cat companion for my other furry friend, Vino. She is 3 yrs old and the love of my life. Another cat in my household would be such a great joy that would bring me more laughter and happiness.
Fingers Crossed!
A pressure canner, of course!
I’m looking forward to another year of Cooks Illustrated from my brother and a box full of jars of my sister’s jams.
Oddly enough as I was grating some garlic to use in a marinade last night, I thought how “grate” it would be to have another micro-plane or rasp. I only started using them this year and I’m hooked. Constantly I am having to fish my one and only micro-plane out of the dishwasher, so another or two or three or more would be a fabulous gift. Oh and peace on earth good will to all men, women, children and canners would be nice too.
We’re starting a new Christmas tradition in a new place this year and I’m hoping that the weather doesn’t get in the way. That’s on my list
I’m hoping to get new cake pans.
Thanks for the giveaway. (and the toffee recipe! I know what I’m giving away for Christmas this year!) I am hoping for an immersion blender.
I recieved my present early this year, Grandbaby Emma born this morning.
I would love to recieve the gift of my daughter for Christmas. She lives far away and I miss her.
Good question, my wife keeps asking me the same thing!
Ultimately, a nice walk-in pantry. Barring that, more space for canned goods besides the garage.
Ooh, you can never have too many graters, especially Microplane ones! I already got my Christmas wish this year: we just booked a trip to Ireland for the spring! I’ve never been off the continent, and I can’t wait for a little adventure.
I drool for an enameled cast iron dutch oven– but I fear my hints are being ignored and I will end up with something Apple related……. My fiancee thinks everyone wants presents that plug in to a computer.
I’m hoping to get some new quilting and sewing inspiration books!
I am hopefully getting a new pressure canner. Maybe I can finally figure out how to use it! Love microplane. My favorite is the citrus zester!
A White Christmas…. Just a dusting on the grassy areas would be nice.
I am hoping for a healthy baby boy!
Since I’m already daydreaming about next year’s garden, some new gardening tools would be nice!
I am asking for a Wushtof boning knife for Christmas.
This year my husband and I really want fruit trees for Christmas!
Funny, just yesterday was looking at a couple different graters. Timely giveaway, Marisa! Confession! I have already received my Christmas gifts ;0)… because I picked & ordered them myself – hehe (I just LOVE shopping sprees). With all the new spices I’ve just ordered, I would now like (and need) a spice rack. MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY, HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR, MARISA & EVERYONE!
Grate giveaway!!! Would love a dutch oven for Christmas
I’m hoping to receive the gift of time with my family…and this awesome gift basket!
What a great giveaway! I’m really hoping to get the new Cooks Illustrated cookbook. I saw it at Costco this weekend and almost drooled all over it.
Great giveaway! Microplanes are awesome! While I didn’t ask for it, they’re quite pricey.. what I would love for Christmas is a big stainless steel stock pot. I have an aluminum one that everything burns at the bottom because it’s so thin, so a real one would be wonderful. I might just get it myself if I receive enough $$$
Nice giveaway.
I would love to have a gift certificate for Joann’s, lol.
I can hardly think of any tangible item I really want this year, but ever since my son was born I’ve wished that each year he learns more about the importance of giving and just appreciating time with family and friends.
A Vitamix would be on my tangible gift list for sure!
I hope to get my annual gift of Caswell-Massey Jojoba Oil seashell soap–the creamiest, best-smelling soap on Earth!
I am hoping for a label maker so I can get organized in 2012!
I LOVE Microplane products and had no idea they made a pizza cutter or the cheese mill…NICE! This year I am hoping to get a homemade by my husband or father-in-law, fold away table unit that I found plans for and love. I am living away from my husband right now because I found a job in another city and the income was something we couldn’t turn down. I am in a small (400 Sq ft) studio apartment and need furniture that is multi-function.
I don’t want to jinx it, but by Christmas I’m hoping for an end to the suspense.
On a universal level, i hope for a new job for my unemployed spouse and great luck in our house hunting endeavors. On a personal level, I want a kindle.
Clothing
My aunt makes the best cookies. I’m looking forward to a whole shirt box of her cookies this year!
what a fun basket of goodies!! i’m hoping for a treadmill to work off my holiday eating (and jams that i can’t stay out of), but i’d love to get a new scraper blade for my kitchen aid.
Drooling over this giveaway! For Christmas, I’m most excited for all my sisters to get together at my parents’ house for the first time in a long time.
I would really like a stand mixer for Christmas this year.
A new canning rack & jar lifter. The rack I have is black now (I don’t think it was any form of stainless anything) and it turns my water orange after a few consecutive uses, even though it doesn’t sit in water when it’s not in use. The lifter I have is just wearing down. I’ve put them through quite a lot in a year & a half
Love your blog!
This Christmas I just want peace of mind, as 2011 has been a doozy. But, if I have to be Material Girl, a Cuisinart Food Processor or a new cast iron skillet would be pretty swell too.
Honestly, I’m just hoping for a relatively stress free holiday. I enjoy the family time and togetherness so much that I am currently worrying more about when we should show up at our various gatherings than I am about what I should give anyone or what I want.
Love my microplane! This year I am hoping for world peace
Unfortunately it’s not going to happen, but I’d love for my hubby to get his salary back. In the last 2 years his income’s been cut by more than 30% and that really messes with how you feel about yourself and your job.
i hope that someone donates in my name to the eastern massachusetts abortion fund because the work they do is so incredible!
I hope to get online water colour lessons!
If I win I will have the prizes sent to my daughter-in-love in San Jose who is expecting in April. She will need the cheese slicer to make grilled cheese sandwiches for my wee grandson when he is older!
I am hoping for a nice quiet holiday spent with friends and family. But, the Microplane utensils would be a wonderful addition.
I am hoping for a Nikon 1 camera and the microplane give away!,
OooOOooo, I hope I get picked! This Christmas I’ve asked for a new Ice Cream Scoop that this one, solid piece of metal. My current one has a plastic handle that is slowly but steadily working itself away from the metal head and core.
I’m hoping to receive an iPad.
I hope I get a pull-up bar or a new pair of running shoes. Mostly, though, I just want to spend some relaxing time with my husband and my family.
I really hope that I get my registration for a blogging seminar paid for by my hunny. He’s so good to me, I think he might actually do it.
~Megan Pence
My desire would be to have a Squeezo Strainer. After reading ‘Wild Flavors’ I see that as a need.
Not to get all personal or anything but I’m currently pregnant with our second child. We’re delivering on the 21st & I’ve had a lot of complications with with pregnancy, personal and physiological. All I truly want for Christmas is a smooth c-section, a healthy baby boy & a smooth recovery. I just wanna be home in time for Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all!!
I hoping to get a kit for making hard cheeses for Christmas!
I would really like more canning jars in different sizes since I have just gotten into canning.
I am hoping to have some extra time with my family all together. My husband has been traveling with his job.
What a great giveaway! I’m hoping for tickets to see my favorite play when it’s in my city this spring.
Legos! Yes, I am a grown up type person who wants Legos for Christmas.
I’m hoping for a new deep fryer since ours gave up the ghost a few months ago.
First is safe travel for my daughter for Christmas! The thing I hope for is an immersion blender and maybe diamond earrings….
I am hoping for some Weck canning jars, but I fear my boyfriend would view that as enabling!
peace.
I’m hoping for some comfy gel mats for my hard kitchen floors
A new crock pot is on my list.
For Christmas I would like to receive the gift of time. I feel like I’m always running here and there. I’m considering giving my Mom and gift of a weekend at the beach. Just her and I, no kids. That will in turn be a gift to me. Quiet time and time with my Mom.
As I’ve moved to a new state recently (leaving my hubby & microplane temporarily behind), I’m psyched by your giveaway! And I’m hoping Santa brings me Andrea Reusing’s book, Cooking in the Moment!
Oh, I hope I win this one! I am hoping for a well-behaved new puppy with all the family coming in from out of town!
Any gardening gift certificate is fine by me!
I’m hoping for some Tattler Jar Lids and Pomona Pectin so I can finally try out different types of canning supplies.
I’m hoping to receive more time quiet, personal time with my husband before he deploys. We’re both so busy with opposite schedules, and now trying to finish moving into and setting up our new home, that any extra time together would be a blessing.
Cheers,
*Heather*
These are the best kitchen tools! I am hoping to get some new wooden spoons and a new crock pot for Christmas. Thank you for the marvelous giveaway!
cheese mill? count me in..
friends, family, food, laughter- all that are needed for a wonderful christmas..
I am continuing to find inner peace, most recently through the concept of Radical Acceptance.
I want my PCOS medication (and the workouts I’m doing) to work effectively enough that I can eat a semi-normal Christmas dinner. And MAYBE a cookie.
For Christmas I would like pleasant weather on the east coast so there will be no problems getting to see the ones I love.
…and a new Crock Pot
Merry Christmas!
Family time is what I’m hoping for this year — relaxing, laughing, eating, playing together. I can think of lots of ways the Microplane tools would fit into the eating part.
Thanks for the chance.
I’m hoping for a new chef knife then vacation days full of cooking and reorganizing my kitchen.
I have a small rasp that I used for my nutmeg but microplanes are the best! I hope to get a nice one this year, or perhaps a mandoline!
When I received my KitchenAid stand mixer a few years ago I somehow missed that there were all these neat attachments you could get for it! My Christmas gift wish this year is the KitchenAid grain grinder so I can grind this corn I grew this summer a little easier than using my marble mortar and pestle (even though that’s a method that’s worked for thousands of years…). Second on my list is the KitchenAid ice cream maker — which will of course brighten the lives of the rest of my household too!
I’m hoping for some 1/2 gallon mason jars that I can use to store popcorn and dried beans and such in.
I’m really hoping for some Ugg slippers!
I would love a new me! At least the beginning of a new me!
I’m dying for a good, new work purse. Mine is falling to pieces. Again. Even though I bought it in August.
I tend to find when I read through the comments that many of my fellow readers have similar ideas to mine. (Kindred spirits, perhaps.) I could definitely go for cheese, yarn, a good backrub, etc. Like Celeste, though, my life right now is totally dominated by the fact that I’m expecting a Christmas baby (my first, a girl), and I’m likewise hoping for healthy & uncomplicated. And maybe some sleep, if that’s not too much to ask for!
Sleep.
I’m hoping for a festive Hannukah/Christmas dinner with all my extended family with lots of food and chatting and relaxing…as I’m finishing up my final exams at school, the thought of that is keeping me going
These are fabulous! I am hoping my friends and family love my gifts of canned goods this year, as it will be my first time giving them!
I hope to get lots of smilesand hugs from my kids!
Happy Holidays! I’m hoping for a KitchenAid Mixer. Since I’ve retired, I’m cooking and baking a LOT more and my little handheld mixer just can’t handle some of the tasks.
I am just really looking forward to seeing my baby niece and nephews. We live 13 hours away from them, so I only get to see them a few times a year. But this Christmas I get to spend the whole week with them! Best holiday present ever!
I am hoping to really experience gratefulness with my family this year- the harder things get, the more I want to appreciate all the goodness in our lives…
Something, anything…shiny.
I love Microplane graters and would love to try these other products. What I always want for Christmas is for the family to be together. I don’t need fancy presents but I get a kick out of making a wonderful family dinner and have everyone come over to my house for some quality time together.
I hope to get loads of memories this Christmas.
Just hoping for health and happiness for my loved ones. I have everything else that I need! (But I won’t say no to a GPS enabled running watch…)
I’m hoping to get a family vacation trip!
Thanks for the giveaway deal… hope to win!!!
This year I would love a madaline or a pasta attachment for my kitchen aid mixer.
What I really would like for Christmas is some new slippers! We have cold floors, and my old slippers are just falling apart. . .
I’m hoping for a chance to see my god-daughter for Christmas – custody issues have made it very hard to see her, and she needs more stability and love in her life.
After a difficult break up and the drama that always ensues, I’m asking for normalcy this year. Or possibly a new normal!
I’m hoping to see everyone I want to see when I’m home (I currently live about 1500 miles away)! Also new boots
Love Microplane tools. I’m hoping for books this year.
I’m actually hoping for a kindle this year, but more than anything just for some time off work to spend with loved ones.
Oh, man! What a giveaway! Can always find uses for microplanes!
This Christmas, I would like my mother in law to stop talking about my uterus and lack of babies coming from it.
I’m hoping to get an ereader so I can read anywhere!
I’m excited to celebrate the holiday with all my out of town family that is flying in and especially excited to also celebrate the first birthday of my niece! It would also be lovely to find a new blender/food processor combo under the tree.
And now to grate as many things in my kitchen as I can find…
I don’t celebrate Christmas, but it is my birthday in a few days and I’d love a new laptop!
I’m making a spice kit for my baby sister who just got her first apartment, with little jars of fresh spices and some favorite recipes.
I think I would like a very peaceful season of family & friends. The set of microplane items would be nice as I am trying to work towards using all things home made.
I would love to get a cast-iron terrine mold, but if no one gets it for me, I’ll get it at Dehillerin in Paris this January.
Oh Boy!…I would luv to win this basket…I could sure use some of these tools right now…I would like to receive lots of love and perhaps some gift certificates to Amazon.Com if they can afford it…if not…LOVE is more than enough!
I’d love a microplane set, but most of all, I want my husband to have a new job (or not get laid off from his current one).
I want a salad spinner!
I’m hoping for a new tablecloth and napkins.
I was going to write that I would like to get an asparagus pot for Christmas so I can can small batches. As I was scrolling down I just happened to stop at comment 207 from Angela Lux. I had to fight back the tears. I am sending good thoughts your way in hopes that you get that good report of no cancer for your son. Merry Christmas.
Actually, that original rasp IS on my Christmas list this year. I’ve been wanting it for a long time, I don’t don’t know why I haven’t broken down and bought it myself. So, maybe if I receive one and win, I’ll be able to pass one to someone else.
crossing my fingers for a mandolin – im dreaming of wisps of fennel and pickled cucumbers and apple chips!
i want 5 fingers shoes, and a dehydrator… but what i’m probly getting is watching my kids open more presents than they need… you know how that goes….
Hmmmm, we have treated ourselves here at home to a Wii Console hoping to get FIT from all the damn cooking I do! However, I would love the new Jacques Pepin cookbook, “The Essential Pepin,” or “Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day,” or “Food52Cookbook,” or “The Farmer’s Cookbook, by Marie Lawrence.”
Mostly, though…I want a job.
The best gift of all this year would be for my husband and/or me to land a steady job (he works construction and I freelance, and we need at least one steady paycheck in these rough times). Wishing everyone the best of holidays!
I hope Santa brings me a copper jam pot!
A dutch oven and/or any canning gear! Happy holidays all!
I would like to be healthy for Christmas. I have gotten sick every Christmas for the last 5 years and I’d like to actually celebrate this year.
Ha – funny! I actually have a Microplane on my list (the original)!
I am hoping for a good Christmas with my grandparents. It may very well be their last one.
A smaller pressure cooker for everyday use
I want a Burley Travoy trailer so I can go get all my canning supplies by bike
I love microplanes! I had no idea they had so many different versions. I use my long one for everything. A gift I wish for is the ability to judge wine BEFORE I buy it
I really hope to receive a new soup pot that is on my wish list!
I would love some of my favorite subscriptions (New Yorker, McSweeney’s) renewed
Microplanes are great in the kitchen……..I’m hoping to receive a mincemeat pie from my Aunt & Uncle. I cut it in pieces , vacuum seal it and freeze it for treats through out the year.
I am hoping for a LeCreuset Dutch Oven. Great giveaway! Thanks!
I am blessed with so much. While I would love to win this, I cannot truly say I am in need of anything. My wish is for all in need to be helped in some way this season and throughout the coming year.
I’m hoping for playtime with the cutest kid in the universe, and new sheets.
…the ability to jimmy-rig a sous vide successfully. poach eggs sous vide are the best, ever. happy holidays M!
Citrus zest brightens everything. Could really benefit from a microplane, it will save my knuckles!! My christmas wish if for a Victorio strainer. It will make Salsa season so much more efficient.
I’ve always wanted to play the mandoline. Anyway, these tools look awesome!! For Christmas, I’m hoping for brushes and paint from Santa. These days I have to paint without some of my standard palette colors, which presents an interesting artistic challenge. Picasso had his “Blue” period. I’m having my “No Blue” period.
I never thought to score my crackers using a pizza cutter – how clever! For Christmas, I would like to have all of my kids home at the same time! I have two in the military so it doesn’t always happen.
I’m hoping for a wonderful holiday in Hawaii!
I have asked for an Excalibur dehydrator for Christmas. Hopefully Santa thinks that I’ve been good
This year I would really love a clean and organized house.
Great looking products… but what I want for Christmas this year is a nice pair of warm and cozy slippers. Our floor is super cold, even with the carpet.
Thanks for the great posts, they are always fun and insightful.
Great giveaway! I’d really love for Santa to bring me a soapstone woodstove with pizza oven. Oh, the possibilities!!! Happy holidays to all.
I’m hoping to get some Fiesta Christmas Dishes.
At my age many of my kitchen “tool” are either outdated or “outused”. I am hoping for a new pasty brush in my stocking.
A new set of pots!
After Peace on Earth, I would love to have the pizza cutter in this gift basket!
There are a couple new canning related books I’d like. I’d also like a seal-a-meal. And, of course, this giveaway!
I hope to get some $ to help pay for my dog’s ACL surgery. Hopefully selling my jellies and jams will help pay for some of the expense.
HOPING for lots and lots of Cookbooks off of my wishlist!!!
I would like to get a cast iron skillet
Books! I love reading, but somehow people never think books are interesting enough as gifts.
Great giveaway! I’m hoping to figure out a career change…
Awesome giveaway!! I would love to receive a Keurig Coffee Maker for Christmas
I’m hoping for a magnetic lid wand and a stockpot that I can use for canning small batches of jam!
I would love to win this, I am really trying to be a better cook in the kitchen for my family and these would help. I would love things for my kitchen.
I’ve got my fingers crossed for a food processor. And now, some microplanes!
Tangibly I’d like a pizza peel. Non-trangibly I’d like family to all be together to share a meal and make some good memories.
Thanks for the inspiration.
I am so grateful for your site as it has been very encouraging for my Daughter..A first year canner!!! She is a divorce Attorney in NYC, and I think canning is going to be her saving Grace, a calm and pleasing outlet. As for my wish for Christmas…It would be PEACE…All over the world….Thats it, Laurie
I asked for a 4th burner pot! In fact, I think I saw it on this very website. Microplanes would be sweet, too.
Wishing for a soda stream this year. My family loves fizzy things.
While I definitely have my eye on a new blazer this Christmas, I am really just thrilled about the opportunity to take off a week from my job in DC to go home and see my family in Oklahoma.
I need a new external hard drive. Mine are full. All three of them . . .
A new mixer!
I’m hoping for a really great Christmas Eve brunch with the entire family. We rarely have the opportunity to see one another and this appears to be the year that we will all be together for one meal.
what i really-really-REALLY want is a fancy pressure canner…you know, the american made ones with the flip up bolts for the lid attachment?? yeah, thats it!!
LOL… I have used both extensively and really LOVE the ease of my Prestos better then the American. It is so dang heavy!!!!!! Really hard to lift and clean too. However, being able to double-stack quarts is pretty awesome. Happy canning!!
This would be an awesome present!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Looks perfect! I’m hoping for a Kindle since I love to read!
I’m hoping to get a new dishwasher.
I’m hoping for some new bamboo sheets!
I’m hoping for books (:
This is a really neat give away, such a great idea! For Christmas this year I would like my parents, brother, and his little family to fly out and see me. AND some vanilla beans.
For a holiday gift I’d like lots of different oils and vinegars to make new salad dressings. In the spring and fall the coldframes are filled with lettuces but I get tired of my same old dressings… I want to spice it up!
Hoping to get some new socks (always!) and some fun new cookbooks, including some canning books.
I am hoping for a book called Modern essentials so I can better use all my essential oils with my family. I tried to zest lemons the other day and realized I too NEED a good planer. : )
I love the original rasp and had no idea there were so many other products! I’d love to try out those cheese graters. My silly idea of a great Christmas gift would be a Schacht Matchless spinning wheel. Lovely, but a bit stiff pricewise!
Hoping to receive a new camera!
Not what I was thinking of but I have to go with Erin and A Clean House!
I hadn’t seen the cheese planer before! That looks useful if it works. As for the holidays, I’m hoping for some relaxation so everything isn’t so go, go, go.
A DSRL camera! I am so sick of my point and shoot.
A Le Creuset dutch oven. If only…
I enjoy your website and am super excited about your awesome giveaway package. This Christmas I am asking for the new iphone.
I’d love some of that grate-y goodness!
I’m hoping for a new stove. The oven won’t work on mine anymore!
Praying for pain relief for my hubby, hopefully even before Christmas! Thanks for the opportunity to win this; these tools look great! Happy Holidays!
I’m hoping for a magically self cleaning litter box…
Great giveaway! I would mind adding it to my kitchen gadget collection! I have one microplane item and use it often! I’m asking Santa for a collapsible funnel for filling jars.
Ooohh…. I’d love a selection of cookbooks for my Kindle!
I would really like a job.
I am grateful I have already been given a few weeks off from school but on my christmas list this year is a new phone!
I’d love a new set of cookware!
This summer I canned a lot but I am hoping to make the leap to pressure canning by receiving one for Christmas. Thanks for the great give-away!
The thing I want most is to get the tree in my back yard trimmed so I can have less shade over my garden!
im wishing for new patio furniture this year. not that those wierd plastic walmart chairs arent amazing
I’m hoping for a mandoline slicer. Fingers crossed!
I’m hoping Santa brings me a mini trampoline!
what a fun giveaway!
Im hoping for some stainless steel pospsicle molds and the paleteria cookbook
these rasps would be nice when I make my cola syrup…Last time I had to rind 4 lemons, 4 limes and 8 oranges!
love your blog
I asked for some of the canning cookbooks recommended on this site, so I’m hoping to get one (or maybe two) of those!
I’m hoping for a pair of slippers this year! I love my microplane rasp, the other goodies look great.
The only gift i want is a peaceful christmas and new year full of love….all the more enjoyable with these beautiful instruments : )
Very nice gift set!
I’d serve it with my homemade cranberry-jalapeno-ginger relish.
I’m hoping that this December brings more opportunities for the unemployed and health care for those in need. My “dream gift” would be to see our politicians turn from their corporate masters and start us moving toward a green economy where oil use would become a thing of the past and we could see loads of jobs created in green industry.
Is this really too much to ask? I don’t think so.
Meanwhile, maybe some cheese would be nice
I am so very Thankful for your site…It has been an inspiration to my Daughter, a first year canner!!!! She is a divorce Attorney in NYC, and I think canning will be her saving Grace, giving her a relaxing outlet. As for a Christmas want from me…. It Would Be World Peace….From now until the end of Time!!!! Thanks Laurie
I want to receive a new rabbitry from my husband., labor mostly, but materials would be nice too!
Kuhn Rikon Pressure Cooker/Canner
I’m hoping someone will take me snowboarding for Christmas.
DROOL!!! What a wonderful give-away.
Christmas gift? The delivery of my first grandchild in good health.
I want a cleaning lady for Christmas. It would make life so much easier!
I”m hoping for a job right around now!
other than that, health and happiness in the new year
A food mill!
My 2 year old nearly lost his finger in a gumball machine accident the other day. We were very lucky they were able to save it. So, I am wishing for a happy and healthy family this year. No more accidents please!
I would love for my husband to believe me when I say I want a new salad spinner, a pizza peel & stone, and a new compost pail for the counter. Just because they are useful, doesn’t mean they aren’t gifts!
A Microplane, actually! I had a large one with a hinged, collapsible handle and last night when I went to grate some Parmesan on it, the handle snapped clean off! (It had seen many years of heavy use, so this is not entirely surprising.) Still have my rasp, but I loved that other one for grating cheese, so I need a replacement ASAP and this gift basket would be perfect. (I didn’t even know there was a Microplane pizza cutter!)
The cheese plane looks terrific! I’m hoping for a Sodastream.
I am crossing my fingers for an enamel coated cast iron pan!
Pizza cutter for me!
I would love a Le Creuset Buffet Pan.
I’m hoping my kids will do well in the car during the road trip we’ll be taking to my brother’s wedding. That would be a dream come true.
I would really love to receive a quiet holiday with the people I care about most, enjoying the best food that we possibly can. All I really want for Christmas is more time to spend with the people in my life outside of the demands of work.
The one gift I hope to get this year? I hope to get to go to cheese making school. I ask every year for santa to let me go. Maybe this year?
I don’t usually receive many gifts for Christmas. However, I’m hoping my mom chooses to renew my subscription to Victoria magazine!
I’m hoping for a pressure canner this year. Thanks for the give away.
I want to be able to start my blog this Christmas. This will be my gift to myself. Making time for my dreams & me.
I just hope to have a happy first Christmas with my baby — one where everyone sleeps well the night before, the dog doesn’t knock over the tree and with no rain as we rush across town to visit family!
This Christmas, I’m just looking forward to spending time with my family, especially my sisters!
Love Microplane! I would simply like to be in the same state as my boyfriend. A present I won’t get until after the New Year…
Cutting edge give away! YAY! Would love the prize for Christmas, and a few days of family, especially having the daughters and their husbands all together with us.
I am actually hoping to get a pressure canner. I am loving my hot water bath but want to expand. Thanks for the contest and the awesome blog. Its one of my favorites.
I am hoping to receive a meat tenderizer. I went a little crazy last time on the chicken and broke my old one.
Hmmm. Would like to try some Weck jars. Or maybe a nice copper preserving pan …
Oh…the joys of cheese!
This year I’m hoping to get a grain mill…I love fresh baked bread and fresh whole wheat will make it even yummier!
This Christmas I would really like to have my husband home and spend the day drinking hot chocolate and watching Christmas movies. Not sure if that will happen on Christmas but the next best thing is having the rest of my family here for Christmas and eating a huge meal together. That is a Christmas gift I know I will be getting:)
This is a great idea for a giveaway — I have been looking for a new nutmeg grater, since nothing compares to fresh grated nutmeg this time of year. This Christmas I am hoping to have my family together to relax and reflect upon the reason for the season.
I hope my family has a happy and healthy Christmas, and that there are no knife fights at dinner this year.
Thank you for the chance to win this set. I’m hoping for a digital kitchen scale because I love to bake and so many recipes use weight instead of volume measures.
A peaceful day of rest.
I hope to get lots of hugs from my nieces this Christmas!
New Oven mitts – the silicone grip on one of mine melted.
I would love to score an old stash of pint and a half straight sided canning jars or a new canning kettle before the bottom falls out of mine ! Most of all I want my whole family to be together for the first time in years!
I should say I’m hoping for world peace. But, in truth, I want a smart phone.
I’d love to get sleep…but know that isn’t going to happen. So I’ll settle for wool socks….but a Microplane gift basket would also be nice ;-P Their adjustable slicer looks way sharper than my Oxo mandoline.
I hope Santa brings me an iPad 2
I’d like a champagne bucket for Fizzy Fridays1
Hoping Santa brings me some books on preserving and some Tattler jar lids!
On the tangible line, I hope to get a new pastry blender and maybe a kitchen scale for my baking.
Wishing for a bigger cast iron skillet! : )
For Christmas, I’m hoping for a final date for my boyfriend to move back to my city. We’ve been doing the long distance commute for two and a half years and I’m ready to be done! Oh, and I asked my sister for a microplane zester coincidentally!
Thanx for a great, informative website! Sure enjoy it! Wishing all my family has safe travel home for Christmas!
I’m wishing for a programmable crock pot, and lots of love.
Well, I am embarrassed to say that I have never heard of Microplane! They look sturdy, and I would love to try them. I am addicted to good kitchen tools. This year for Christmas, I would love to have an immersion blender.
i would love to receive a new pressure cooker
what i would really like for christmas is the impossible – more time. more hours in the day, more days in the week, more weeks in the month and more months in the year. but i would also settle for some a le creuset 7.5qt french oven.
Marisa, I love your website! I am a very visual person and your tutorials are tops! I am researching traditional foods again and am making a list of what I will need to start and it looks as though this gift package would be perfect. I think for Christmas I’m going to ask Santa for a grain mill and the culture thingy for Kombucha. Merry Christmas! Holly
I need some new baking sheets this year, but the best gift will be a visit from my parents.
I hoping for a new crock pot.
I’d love some tickets to a show. Anything that gets me out of the house to gain a little culture.
Come on, 601! Anyway, I’ve really got my eye on this cute Harry Potter themed necklace from Etsy, which has sold! I hope it sold to one of my relatives!
This Christmas, I’m mostly looking forward to spending time with my family (parents and siblings). I know it sounds cheesy, but it’s rare for us to all be in the same place at the same time anymore, so I try to appreciate the times when we can. My mother’s been battling cancer this year, and my brother will be home with his wife and new baby, which is rare. And also I’ll get a break from work!
I’m really hoping for a down jacket – it’s cold here!!
I’m hoping for some snow for the holidays. We still don’t have any in Wisconsin yet. Everything is brown and gloomy, and it just doesn’t feel like the holidays without snow.
This year I’m hoping for a couple cookbooks and a pair of Toms shoes. Love the shape of the pizza slicer! Looks very ergonomic.
A cheese making kit! Or a small pressure cooker. Or both!
Those look awesome! This year I have my fingers crossed for a good local gardening book
I am hoping for sleep! Also, I would like a pasta machine.
I would love a new food processor! and of course a set of mircoplanes
I’d like some new baking pans!
I’m hoping for happy children, but wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Dyson ;o)
I’m hoping that Santa brings me an immersion blender…
Oh man am I drooling over this giveaway!! Oh so much fun to think about my non existent gift list, definitely new boots or a steamer. Thanks
I’m hoping for a food mill for my kitchenaid to make more preserves (and baby food!)
I’m hoping to get new, fluffy bath towels this year.
entering! I am hoping for a vintage Vitamix this year, as promised by my mother!
a microplane gift basket giveaway!!
Hugs from each of the kids is all I want for Christmas this year! But, a new microplane would be nice, too.
I’m hoping to get some of the cookbooks on my wishlist. And a new (bigger) bookcase to hold them all!
I would just be excited to get the replacement pads for my steam mop this Christmas!
hoping for an e-reader of some kind or the pasta making attachment to my kitchenaid mixer.
a grain mill
I’m still hoping that someone (ahem, dad, who promised that if I EVER got my license he would buy me a car…I got it a year ago, helloooooo) decides to gift me with a little car that gets great gas mileage. some seriously wishful thinking there….
Ooh, those tools look really nice! I really don’t know what to expect for Christmas as far as gifts but I am mostly hoping to have a really fun weekend in New York with two of my best girlfriends!
i’m hoping for a few books this year – both the cooking and reading kind!
I’d love to get a retro record player!
Topping my kitchen wish list: the SodaStream that looks like a penguin, so I can stop hauling plastic bottles from the store to the recycle bin. Seltzer tastes much better from glass bottles! At least it looks better, and reusable bottles are the way to go.
Love the set – I’ve been wanting some of those items and I’m also looking forward to some Tattler Reusable Canning Jar Lids from Santa!
I am secretly hoping for a food saver. And I am a huge bookworm so I am hoping to see some new books under the tree!
I used my microplane grater for nutmeg just the other day, when I made my Mango and Cranberry Chutney. They really are the best. What I want for Christmas is more traffic to my blog – lol!!
I’m hoping to receive the collector’s edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in hardcover.
Kitchen toys are always on my list of happy gifts!
My big dream would be for a good stand mixer as mine is ancient and not very powerful, but…. I would be happy with the microplane and maybe a new cookbook!
Hoping to inherit my grandmother’s stand mixer this year!
I’m hoping to receive a subscription to Amazon Prime. Silly, I know, but the new Lending Library would be awesome for my Kindle!
I am hoping for a copy of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams!
I’m hoping for some fun, homemade surprises.
As I am preparing to make some cookies, I am reminded of a nice stainless steel disher I am hoping to get this Christmas.
Oh, would love this, have always wanted one like the original! I’m hoping to have my whole family together for christmas
To finally catch up on sleep!
Jam from my friend Meggan if I’m really lucky!
I’ve requested a couple new cutting boards! I’d also like some red boots, if I’m being honest.
Of all things, I’m really hoping for some new wooden spoons. My poor spoons have seen better days!
I’m hoping for the gift of time with my loved ones. <3 and we love cheese!
I’m hoping for some gourmet jams!
I am hoping to receive a rice cooker. Happy Holidays!
These all look super useful and lovely! The one gift I’m looking forward to most is a romantic getaway vacation with my boyfriend in the Dominican Republic!
i am wanting a cheese press and molds, as i have gotten into making cheese this year. i’m kinda stuck on the kinds i can make until i get a press. thanks for the give-away.
I am hoping for a new splatter screen.
I’m hoping for (and, thankfully, pretty much guaranteed to receive) time at home with my family.
love the gifts in jars!
would love to win…
I love this giveaway, especially the pizza cutter (which I need desparately!)
One holiday gift I would love this year is a pasta machine (more specifically, a Marcato Atlas pasta machine). I would love to add pasta to my homemade repertoire – hand-rolled pasta just can’t compete with what can be bought in stores.
Not sure about receiving, but I’m certainly hoping to *give* things this year! Maybe cookies, or picture frames.
I’m hoping for some time to just relax and enjoy the holiday
I hope to spend time with my loved ones and enjoy their company. A great to unwind from 2011 and to wind up for 2012!
honestly, the thing I’d most like to get this year is the 2012 pages for my planner! (dorky, I know! but so so useful!)
Funny, I already know I’m getting what I want. Amazon shipped the photo scanner I asked for in the original manufacturer packaging. And guess who was home to sign for it….
Moi.
Well, I know I won’t have to be my own santa this year
Karen
Great giveaway! I’d love to get some appliances we need to fill out our new kitchen or some crafty stuff for my craft studio in our new home!
It would be nice to get a juicer
I want a mandoline! Oh the things I would make… starting with scalloped potatoes! Yum!
The rasp is the best thing for grating garlic then spreading it on your bread and toasting it! I hope to receive the gift of my children coming home for Christmas.
I would love and ipad. We are not really a “gadgetty” family or big spenders. I guess both of those are reasons why I don’t already own a ipad
but if we were going to splurge… this would be my pick!
What a fabulous basket of goodies! I’ve never owned a microplane, but have often caressed them in the stores. (LOL) My pizza cutter is one I picked up at the grocery store many years ago – very inexpensive and wobbly (imagine the sound of cowboy spurs). I’m actually going to ask for a new small space heater for use at work – Our office tends to be on the chilly side. This year I’ll be gifting homemade jams/jelly and quick breads – I’m now tempted to try a few of your gift jar ideas
I’ve been leaving my husband some obvious hints about hand carved wooden spoons. I’d also love a pair of black boots too
What’s on my wishlist this year? Well…the same thing that’s been on my wishlist for many years now: a KitchenAid stand mixer. I have a feeling I won’t be receiving one one again this holiday, but a girl can dream!
I’m hoping for wool underwear, fingers crossed!
I’m hoping for some new knives this year!
a gravy separater. i use the zip lock baggie trick, but i’d like the real deal.
thanks!
i’d love to get an instax camera for christmas this year.
For Christmas, I would like a Harry and David’s basket. When I was a kid, we used to get them from a relative, every holiday, so I have very pleasant associations with their products. Thank you for hosting this giveaway.
I’m hoping to receive a book about food photography. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love a new mixer with a meat grinder attachment ..Santa do you hear me?
For Christmas, I would love to get a stand mixer to lighten the load off of my right arm during the this holiday season. Or a personal chef would do, but I could kiss&hug the mixer to my hearts content…
I’d like a laser pointer as a toy for my dog Chloe!
All I want for Christmas is my dad healthy and at home.
winning this set would be awesome!:) i would like a serger for christmas. something more realistic would be a nice new xl frying pan. mine has seen better days. thanx for the opportunity to win such a great prize.
I am hoping for a La Creuset fry pan, but expecting a 2 set of seasoned cast iron pans from TSC. DH loves me but hates to hurt the hip pocket.
I’d like to get a shredding attachment for my mixer.
A cancer-free dad.
A pressure canner might be a good gift for me this year.
Love the gift set. So much nicer than the rasp my hubby plans to bring in from the garage!! Have high hopes for a Kindle this year.
I’d love a reflective vest for running. And yarn, always yarn.
We had to replace our stove and oven last week, so that’s our mutual Christmas present this year!
I would really like a larger kitchen/more counter space, though I think that falls under intangible, since we rent and there is no way that will be possible, maybe next year!
I’m hoping for a food scale so I can be more accurate on portion sizes.
Oo lovely lovely little tools …. my kitchen would benefit greatly! I would like to have my military husband home for Christmas … hoping, praying, every day!!!!!!!!
I will get my knives sharpened for Christmas!
I’m hoping to get a new camera because my current one has gone wonky.
cheese is always a great present, some 10 year old aged! with a good bottle of cabernet. I would also like some quality time with family. They live far away.
I’m hoping to receive a mandoline!
top of my list is the awesome fourth burner pot you’ve talked about. it may even end up a gift to myself.
I love absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this set! In fact a microplane grater is actually on my Christmas list!
Bobbi
I would love it if I received an iPad cover for Christmas! I am tired of worrying about my iPad getting broken by my kids!
You have a great giveaway here!
I am hoping for a new tea kettle, hopefully pink!
Would love to get Melissa Clark’s new cookbook!
I’m hoping to receive a heated birdbath for Christmas!
I’d like a husband, please.
actually, i really want the microplane zester so that i can GIVE it to my co-worker.
haha
I’d like some new measuring cups.
Love this set – especially like the pizza cutter. For Christmas I am hoping for the new Collette Patterns sewing book.
Would love to receive this Microplane gift set for the holidays, though I would also be very happy with an immersion blender, or a visit from the “thesis fairy” so I could finally graduate!
I am hoping for a kitchen scale for Christmas.
I am hoping for an OXO kitchen scale!
I hope for good health for my family….
Oh, and a greenhouse for me!!
I’m hoping for a great first Christmas with my hubby. Here’s keeping my fingers crossed not too much goes wrong!
I’m hoping to get some of those super cute SmartWool knee-high frilly socks!
What a dream gift basket this is! I’m hoping to get a sous vide cooker but think that may be in my dreams
I use my wifes Microplane grater for parmesan. It’d be fun to win this for her! I’d just like to learn how to cook better this year. Can anyone give that to me for Christmas?
I’m hoping to get a lot of sewing fabric!
I am going to get the best gift ever… My pregnant sister and her hubby are coming home for christmas!!!!!
Hoping for Ottolenghi’s “Plenty”!
I’m hoping for a picture for my dining room for christmas! This looks like a great giveaway. I love your blog.
What a fabulous giveaway-thanks for the chance to win. I would like a trip to New York. It’s at the top, middle and bottom of my bucket list….. Maybe someday! I will settle for a happy day with family!
My husband usually gives me a nice gift certificate to a local day spa. It’s a gift that keeps giving throughout the year.
I’m in! This looks like a wonderful gift packet.
I’m really hoping for two things. An OXO food mill because my old Foley one is so frustrating that I actually skip lots of recipes now that call for one. And maybe, just maybe, a Maslin pan. Because I’m totally addicted to jam making. Totally.
Love your site! I want happy teenagers with good grades for Christmas this year. That is not too much to ask for right?
Love Microplanes! Hoping for a perfect martini for Christmas!
I’m really hoping for a new pair of boots for the garden! Not very sexy, but very exciting.
All I want is my baby to be delivered safely and to be healthy!
I asked for a medium-sized crock pot
I can’t believe I’m 35 and don’t have one yet.
Wow, I haven’t even thought about Christmas. I’m hoping for good news on the job front for a family member this year. That would be the best gift of all right now.
I am celebrating Christmas while living in Turkey this year, so I am happy just to have a seasonal gathering with new friends with a few Christmasy traditions thrown in. New friends and good times–that’s plenty.
I’d like a job.
Otherwise, I’d like a movie style kettle popcorn popper like the waring pro one.
I love your blog. I have used so many of your recipes! I am hoping for a new pot to use for making jam.
I asked for a nice and new flat iron
I also asked for a new set of glasses since most of our broke during the move.
My relatives usually give me lottery tickets so I’d really like one to be a winner, lol.
I think my 12″ fry pan is on it’s last legs…I’d like a new one!
The best gift I could get is that my grandaughter, son, and DIL are able to travel cross state to visit us. Please stay away snow.
I will be recieving a new Grand daughter this Christmas! So excited! I cook alot and never have used any of these tools. Would love to try them!
I am hoping to get some Homsteading books this year to help with next season
The best present I could get would be a full night of sleep!
I want all 3 of my kids and my husband, home for a nice meal and a great visit. Look forward to it every year. Far flung families are hard to schedule time together and Christmas usually allows this to happen.
I would love to receive a new toaster oven. Mine is about shot. I also wouldn’t mind a whole kitchen make-over but that won’t happen this Christmas.
I am hoping to receive a canning cookbook
I may have spent a whole minute scrolling down
I’m happy to be one of your many followers. I’ve been getting cooking gear religiously for Christmas for three years (but this set would be lovely!) so I’m hoping to get an electric drill for Christmas, to help me with my more sturdy and lasting DIY projects.
Anything foodie related.
I’m hoping to get inspired over the holiday this year. It’s been a long fall.
I would love to receive some earrings from my husband.
What I’d like more than anything as a gift this year is a laptop. I have a great desktop but I’m ready for some mobility. But what I am hoping for the most is that my first homebrew projects will turn out well.
What great items, I am hoping for a job, been unemployed way too long. Many homemade gifts this year. Have enjoyed reading and making many things from your site.
I’m hoping to get an ice-cream maker this Christmas. I probably won’t get one and that’s probably for the best (for my waistline). :/
Great giveaway! I am hoping for an pasta cutter attachment for my kitchenaid mixer.
love this blog and look forward each post!
Christmas wish—good health and safe world for all
I would love something homemade from my kids, but since my husband isn’t the crafty type, I don’t think that will happen.
I had no idea microplane made so many products. I only have the traditional one. I’d love the rest!
I am hoping to get a new set of frying/saute pans to replace all of mine which are warped and increasingly non-nonstick. Also, I would love for someone who loves me to pony up for an eBay purchase of a perfume that I love but has been discontinued.
And if my work would convert me to full-time from my current position as a contractor, I wouldn’t complain.
I am hoping for a safe. I just moved and would like somewhere to put my valuables.
I want a happy, relaxed family with everyone enjoying each other’s company. I’ll get it, too
I would really like gift cards to REI so that I can get a sweet new pair of hiking shoes that actually provide ankle support!
I would love a pedicure gift certificate
A zest rasp. Can you believe it! It’s true. I’ve wanted (and asked Santa) for one for years!
My lover and I won’t be together for the holidays so I already got my dream present- a bright purple sewing machine!
My greatest hope is a job for my husband. After that, some baby gear for my upcoming arrival would be fabulous.
My gift came early this year, when I got a Kitchenaid stand mixer during Black Friday. I love that thing already, it’s awesome!
to sleep all night.
I am giving all of my coworkers cute little 4-oz jars of either peach or plum jam for the holidays. Who doesn’t love a personal jar of jam?
I’m hoping the holidays bring good times and good memories. My six-year-old totally believes in magic and Santa, so this season is such a special time for our family.
Truth be told, I’d love to receive a micro-planer (our 2nd one of a non-picro-planer brand is now breaking in the exact same place as the one it replaced) and a pizza cutter, so, ya know, this give-away could be good for us…. But truly, I’m looking forward to “the gift of family time.” Both with my kiddos, and my brother coming in from clear across the country.
Thanks for the dance, but far more importantly, thanks for the fabulous inspiration you dole out on this blog.
Hoping for a food dehydrator or food mill! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m hoping for a pressure canner!
I so want this pig anatomy model ^_^
http://www.hobbyplace.com/item/?itm=FDV26102
Bourbon and family stories.
In lieu of traditional gifts this year, I asked family members to make a donation to our local animal shelter.
I am hoping to receive something culinary–like a bay leaf wreath. : )
I’d like a rice cooker this year.
Peace & happiness in my family – it’s been a roller coaster of a year, but now it seems we’ve hit a nice peaceful lull and I’m hoping it stays!
My husband is adamant that I am getting a food processor. Rough, I know! And I just have to pick out which one I’d like…a very big present for us as we don’t usually do anything much and keep it fairly low key. I’d love to have a microplaner though…none in my cabinet yet!
Heather
i love cheese
and i’m hoping for some wonderful kitchen stuff, like a pizza stone
i am really excited to spend christmas with my sister & her new husband and my parents this year. after not seeing either of them last year on christmas, it will be great to be together again this year.
Great site and great giveaway! I hoping for a few new cookbooks.
A kitchen gadget that you just can’t have enough of. I love microplanes and try to keep one for each different use. This is a great selection I would be in kitchen gadget heaven.
Well I asked for a remote car starter, to have the car warm and toasty for me when I get in it every morning and afternoon. But, my husband said he wasn’t getting that for me. I am sad. Oh well, so….I am asking for a nice digital camera. I have taken up hiking with a group of people. A camera will give me an excuse to stop and rest. I won’t really be resting….I’ll be taking pictures of the beautiful scenery in Arkansas!!
Some toasty slippers to wear next to the fireplace.
I’m hoping for a ring.
I’m hoping for a real canning pot so I can stop using my stock pot for processing.
I already received the best gift ever, celebrating our first Christmas with our son, after several years of hoping for children. However, cute canning jars would be a nice treat under the tree!
Excellent blog, love the layout, dig the recipes, perennially jealous of the brilliant ideas. I would really like a microplane set for the holidays, but I’d settle for a boyfriend that knew how to cook also.
I’m looking forward to the ultimate present – two weeks off from work!
I’d like to get the new Colette Sewing book!
All I want for Christmas is a new Beater Blade for my mixer – a seriously awesome tool which really cuts down on the “scraping the bowl” step when baking. Mine recently broke and I miss it.
Wow! Great giveaway. I’m hoping for a pressure canner for Christmas. Please, oh please. I live in Alaska – canning salmon is a way of life!
I’d love to receive a few days of rest and unscheduled time. No guarantees on that one, but a girl can hope.
I am hoping for a new Kindle Fire and a Le Creuset grill pan for Christmas!
I would love ” The river cottage meat book”. And peace on earth. But mainly the meat book=)
My brother already got me the drill I wanted. Yup, I’m a gilr with power tools.
I would love those micro planes.
A pressure cooker is on my list
I hope my guy and I can actually some time together on Christmas day this year. We usually do not have that luxury.
Love. And perhaps a good book or three.
More Weck jars! I think I could probably never, ever get enough of them in my whole lifetime.
I’m hoping for a sewing machine.
I’m hoping to get a subscription to Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. I discovered Microplane 2 years ago and love it!
hi, I was at the swap tonight (with marshmallows and cashew brittle). I love my microplane zester! For Christmas, I would love the icecream attachment for my kitchenaid.
100% Boar Bristle Brush, Jojoba oil, & a satin pillow case please Santa ^_^
I would love to get some fabric for my sewing habit, and some cool Weck jars for my kitchen habits.
Amy in SC
On the practical side, I’d like an immersion blender. My first choice, however, would be my daughter getting enough time off to come home for a few days.
I would love a better relationship with my husband. Here is hoping the holidays can slow us down enough to communicate better.
Hoping for the kitchenaid meat grinder attachment
This Christmas I’m hoping to get the Cook’s Illustrated cookbook I’ve had my eye on! Happy Holidays all!
I would like to use these fun tools to cook for the new boyfriend I’m wishing for this Christmas
I have a whole wish list of foodie gifts I would love to receive for Christmas this year.
I never knew Microplane to have so many products – like a cheese mill. I would like a crepe maker.
I have a microplane grater on my list! I’m really hoping for a good knife sharpener/ set of knife sharpening tools.
I am hoping for a big acrylic measure for allowing dough to rise. I can never judge doubling by eye.
I would love to get a big pile of books for Christmas. And a cat to keep me company while I read them.
Wow, I’m reading all the comments and getting great ideas for things to wish for! But what I really want this year is a massage.
I would love a beekeeper’s package! The package includes 3 hives, bees, smoker, 2 videos on beekeeping, beekeeper outfit. Price $600.00 Way out of my budget!
We have a bottlebrush tree in our garden. This year I have been trying to photograph the bees going wild in the beautiful red bottlebrush blossoms. I was so up close with bees buzzing all around me, I could actually look them in the eye with my camera! It was magic! I want to be a beekeeper!
Ooooooh, Microplane stuff. Awesome!
This holiday season, I’m really hoping for a new mandoline slicer. My old one got lost last time I moved, and I miss it terribly.
I am hoping to get a Le Creuset braiser.
Wow, great products! This Christmas I am hoping to get a new and nicer candy thermometer!
What a fun giveaway! I’m hoping for some fun craft books for Christmas this year, and some new black Danskos…
I just saw two perfect pottery bowls at a small shop today. I just need to tell the right person about them!!
I am hoping to get a Le Cruset Dutch Oven so I can make lots of wonderful soups and stews all winter!
P.S. I just recently found your blog and I’m really enjoying it!
I need practical, new tupperware.
I was so excited for your give-away contest! And then so sad when I read ‘for US residents only’
~One far flung reader beseeching Santa instead of foodinjars for some microplane treats (I’ve only been a little naughty this year).
Well, this year my friends and I are exchanging baked goods for christmas gifts and I really hope someone gives me lemon bars!!!
Thanks for the great blog!
I am praying for a restoration and healing of our great country.
i’m getting what i wanted most. all the kids here at the same time.
im hoping for a little go away vacation for before or after christmas…..maybe key west.
a top notch electric bike
and thanks for the offering
Beautiful microplane basket……. I am asking for a Kindle for Christmas!
Dear Santa,
I jumped the gun and bought myself a cheese press, but I’d really like a dehydrator! Thanks for a chance in your give-away!
It would be a fabulous gift for me if my husband was able to really get into the spirit of Christmas with me this year
He’s not exactly a scrooge, but he’s right on the edge! What a lovely give-away – thank you!
I will be grateful to spend the holiday season with my family.
My mom passed away this summer so the one thing I want is my family around me – we will truly miss her.
I gave up my home this year and had to sacrifice all my kitchen gear along with most of my personal belongings collected over 25 years. It was a bittersweet moment when I realized that I had become “homeless” but a very dear friend extended an opportunity to start over. I am finding my new life liberating! I have started over from scratch at 52 years old and found my new self in the old ways, like canning my own homegrown veggies! So this year I wish for a pressure canner so I can expand my new self and evolve into my new life.
I’m looking forward to the gift of a happy family together for the holidays!
I’m looking forward to spending time with friends passing through to see their families!
I am hoping to get a new Weber gas grill this year for Christmas.
I’d love to know the gender of the little bun in my oven, but it’s being modest and stubborn right now… so I’ll settle for gift cards for maternity clothes or someone to come and pay all of my bills for me
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I just found this site today! Looking forward to all the great content! For Christmas I would like a kitchenaide stand mixer! And the microplane set would be great too!!
I’m wishing for a new crockpot.
i want to give myself a pair of echo touch gloves for Solstice this year. they’re so cute and i love not having to take them off to use my phone
I am wishing for an overnight in Galena IL with my dear husband. MK
A vacation with my husband!
What I really want is safe and uneventful air travel down to visit family – no weather delays, no cancelled flights, no overbooked flights with unvolunteered-bumping, no hassles. Any gifts beyond that will be lovely, but secondary.
A few leisurely days (with no work-related interruptions) with my husband and daughters! thanks!!
Top of my wish list for Christmas is an immersion blender.
I’ve been hoping for a lot of books, I just can’t pick one!
Love the blog. I’d love to win this.
i would love a DSLR but they’re expensive so i’d be happy with a microplane gift basket
For Christmas I want all my children to be home!
Just found you. Love your Blog!
I am wishing for a big, puffy, long bathrobe! One to wrap around me on these cold New England nights.
Wishing I could see my daughter for Christmas! Everything else is secondary!
Pajamas – I would love a cozy new set for winter.
I’ll be happy with my family all together.
I’d love a mini-pie maker……mmmmm, food in crusts!
hoping for some special gardening books!
I would love to relax with a new book after Christmas. Or a fun new Wii game to share with my family!
All I’m hoping for this year is a nice fun holiday with my family.
I would like a new pair of running shoes. I’m going to need them after all of these holiday treats!
Awesome giveaway! I am hoping for some new jeans that fit, since I finally lost a little weight.
I would like to receive a food dehydrator, but I’ll probably just buy it for myself.
More Le Creuset. I’m not usually a label hound, but they are just so nice and I love my soup pot that I received last year!
Since I’m doing so much more in the kitchen these days, any sort of kitchen gadget would be great. Or more canning jars–always need more of those!
I haven’t even thought about what I could receive this year! I’ve been more concerned with what I’ll be giving! I guess I’m hoping to receive more homemade gifts this year, because they are much better that store bought ones…
I wish Santa would get me a Vitamix blender!!!
What a great website you have:) One gift that is tangible that I cannot wait to receive is the canning set my grandmother purchased me for christmas. She passed away last Friday and wrote a note for me explaining how special the gift was for her to give me.
A job – it’s been nearly three years since I’ve had a permanent job. Other than that, I’d like some gift cards.
I would love for my boyfriend and I to have a wonderful first Christmas together! That would be the best gift of all.
I hope Santa’s bringing me a new camera this year!
Just to be with my hubby
I’m hoping for a day of peace, quiet, and no fighting between my children for Christmas this year! Anything else would be icing on the cake for me!
My children have some crazy schecules this year so my greatest gift this year will be them all getting to be home together at some point. I hope there isn’t a snowstorm that will interfere with that small window of opportunity! I also wouldn’t mind a small cold frame or green house so I can get a head start on the garden.
I’m hoping for a lovely bottle of organic pumpkin seed oil – yum!
I would love to win these!
I am hoping for a weekend away from the ‘homestead’ with my husband!
The only tangible things I am hoping to receive this year are homemade cookies and money. As a poor graduate student with far too much clutter, I don’t need more “stuff.” The intangibles I hope for are a peaceful holiday with people I care about.
I wish for health for my family, and good visits with them over the holiday season.
I am really hoping for a new fleece jacket, as I left mine in some motel room on a road trip this fall…
I’m hoping Santa delivers a Le Creuset French oven.
I love my microplanes.
I’m hoping to receive (believe it or not) socks this year. Knee socks in particular. Midwestern winters are rough on the shins.
I would love a new phone!
Nikki McClure’s 2012 Calendar
time off from work
I’m hoping I get the last book in the Inheritance Cycle. Can’t wait to finish the series!
I’m hoping the corset my fiance ordered for me two weeks ago will actually turn up!
A healthy baby and a happy marriage.
I hoping for an ice cream maker and time to relax!
This christmas, I am hoping for a few new items of clothing.
I’d love to get a deer so we can have venison for christmas!
Would love a french oven or really even anything from a kitchen store
i’d really love to get an iphone for christmas!
I’m hoping for a new dishwasher.
Love the prize. Hoping for a Kitchen Aid. Hear that, Santa?
Mmm, cheese. There’s not much better. I’d really like a tandoori oven for Christmas.
I am hoping for some Polish pottery to replace my broken pieces. Good luck everybody!
I would like to get my house painted and landscaped this year. It needs it desperately
There’s a beautiful shawl (apis dorsata) in the latest edition of Knitty that I hope to get the yarn for, three skeins of madelinetosh Tosh Merino, in glazed pecan.
I am hoping to receive some more books for my new Kindle and gift cards for anything!
A blu-ray DVD player with wi-fi. That would be nice.
I’d love to find more time…in my stocking…under the tree…it doesn’t even have to be wrapped.
What a great giveaway! I am hoping to receive a new book or two about canning to get ideas to use next season – and hoping said book(s) include some help with tropical fruits!
I am thinking I would like a new toaster oven and blender, mine are pretty well worn for all that use in the kitchen!
One gift I’m hoping to receive this holiday season is a sock monkey hat
Merry Christmas all 
I know it’s cheesy to say, but, I LOVE cheese!! We eat it on EVERYthing… really, I’m not kidding! I just recently started juicing, but want a REALLY nice juicer than the simple one I have now. Do you think cheese can be juiced?? : P
I’m hoping to get a food processor!
Gosh, I really hope I receive a kitchen scale for christmas!
Love microplanes. I’d love to get a new 4 quart saucepan for Christmas. Mine is 25 years old. What a great giveaway.
I want a Vita-Mix!
I hope to get some more red Fiestaware dishes. This giveaway is very neat. I wouldn’t slice my knuckles shreading cheese no more. I also wish for my son’s eye to get to feeling better. Merry Christmas to everyone!
I really would love to be able to go to Cirque du Soliel with my husband for christmas. I really love the microplane products
Oh, I’m hoping for some new knives for Christmas.
I just want everyone to have a Merry Christmas!
I’d really love a Kitchen-Aid for Christmas … but I think that’ll have to wait until next Christmas!
Getting to see my family, as well as any of the cookbooks on my wish list!
I’m hoping for a few new cookbooks this Christmas.
I am hoping for jars and lids this Christmas to follow up on my first ever canning experience this summer/fall!
I got a recliner as an early present, so my Christmas list is all checked off!
I am hoping to receive an Excalibur Dehydrator
Hoping Santa brings some holiday bottles/jars and amazon gift cards for cookbooks I’ve been hankerin’ for.
My Christmas wish is that my husband would clean his office side of our main room. It’s a constant mess, and he refuses to let me touch any of it. (I may just be wishing, otherwise, he’s worth it!) The microplane set looks wonderful, and it’s giving me a good idea for gifts to others (besides homemade healthy food in jars).
What I really want for Christmas is a food mill, or a dutch oven!
I luv my microplane — when I can find it..
My children love it also. Then it is a race to locate. Wonderful utensil. I know what the children are getting for Christmas. I would love to get an electronic pressure cooker.
I love, love, love your blog! The giveaways are quite the bonus as well. One thing I’d love this Christmas is…a serviceberry bush! I’m trying to plant “snack foods” around the house for my littles. That way, they don’t keep running in and out when they’re playing! ;D
Macaron cookbooks…the best little cookies!
I’m just hoping my mom forgoes her annual Holiday Meltdown. Anything else is gravy.
I hope Santa,(or my husband) gets me an oven thermometer for Christmas. We just moved into a new house and I am certain this old oven is not correct. I know they are only a few bucks but I never remember when I’m at the store and I asked for one, so hopefully it’ll work out for me
I put close to 20 cookbooks on my Christmas wish-list, so receive even a few would really make my holiday!
I can’t imagine my kitchen without my original microplane (no handle).
In a dream world I would love a new fancy kitchen, but I would settle some glass tuberware and some nice new pots!
Microplanes hold a special place in my heart – great giveaway!
I just bought my first horse so I’m hoping to get a few goodies for him.
I love Microplanes. I hope I get more canning jars
iPhone 4S … love Siri!
What is funny is that my wife and I asked for a cheese grater but I would really enjoy the 5lb slab of pork belly that is on my list. It’s definitely a food filled Christmas list and season.
My only holiday wish is to hear from a long-time friend who remains married to an abusive husband and know she is okay. So so sad.
All I want for Christmas is for my family and friends to have a great, healthy, and happy holiday season!
i’m hoping that someone (i’m not picky) has noticed my voiced desire for a stick blender.
I’ve been dying for a wireless mouse. I really hope my family comes through on this one!
What a super giveaway! Hmmm, what would I like for Christmas? I would be more than happy with anything kitchen/food/preserving related. A case of canning jars is worth its weight in gold to me.
What a neat giveaway! My Christmas preasent actually came early this year – I flew out to Okinawa, Japan to visit my sister.
I’m looking to get some socks for the holidays! Best part of christmas!
Nice giveaway! I would love to get pregnant for Christmas!
I am hoping for one of the counter top doughnut makers! (the ones that look like a waffle maker!)
I hope to receive a canning book!
A pair of New balance 574s in red orange and pink
Gosh, since I’m a new full-time student (at age 35) the best gift would be straight A’s lol. Oh, and a bigger pressure canner.
I am hoping for a sodastream soda maker so i can enjoy carbonated water anytime.
I would love a new jacket or sweater-I love having a variety of coats to choose from each morning.
Some new cookbooks
I’m hoping for heated gloves for my scooter – it’s getting cold riding the streets of Philly!!
I would love to get a kindle.
I’d love a Bruins Stanley cup hat – sorry to all you Philadelphia fans.
An automatic car starter!
I’m hoping to get a Vita Mix so I can make the delicious-looking recipes I see on food blogs
Oh I would love a Le Creuset dutch oven!
I’m hoping for a nice coffee grinder. Time to go with fresh ground!
I was just lamenting the fact that I do not own a rasp – perfect timing! I’m hoping to get an REI gift card this year, or new tires for my Jeep. Neither will happen, but I can dream, can’t I?
I love all micro-plane products and give them as gifts to my daughter-in-laws!
My gift wish…peace and good will in congress!
I would love a camera, and some good books.
I’d love to get a Soda Stream machine.
A set of bed sheets is perfect for me!
Love this blog – it’s an addiction.
I want an immersion blender, a Kindle Fire, and a Cuisinart Griller.
And whirled peas.
One word: chocolate!!!
I’m dying for a preassure canner! Oh a pony as well.
I’m hoping to receive a new bookshelf in my kitchen to store the ever growing library of cookbooks! And a running jacket for winter.
My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant. I would be ecstatic if that is all I got for the holidays.
I’m hoping to get a jam pan. I’ve been using my cast iron dutch oven, and it really only works for small batches.
Love Microplane products! I am hoping to get a better camera so I can take pictures to be proud of.
I love my one microplane grater. I would like a salad servers of some sort- tongs, spoons – wooden preferably.
Happy holidays!
Tangible-espresso maker, intangible/not likely–to sleep in until 8, or a nap!! Not going to happen with 3 little ones!!
I’d love to receive a new food processor..mine died just two weeks ago and I miss it!
Thanks for the giveaway!
For Christmas this year, I’d love to receive a set of really sharp knitting needles. Wish Microplane made those!
I’m just looking forward to sharing my home-canned goods with friends and family who will enjoy them. So I guess I want to receive the gift of sharing my bounty. And maybe a little extra time to spend reading canning blogs.
I actually asked for an extra coarse microplane….but i’d love that basket!
I wanted (and have already received) a Staub dutch oven for Christmas this year. I’ve been asking for this for so long, I’ll have to actually come up with new ideas next year.
I’m hoping for a cast-iron double burner griddle. We make a lot of pancakes with 5 children in the house.
I’m hoping for a pressure cooker!
i am hoping to get a laptop for Christmas
I am hoping for some attachments for my Kitchen Aid … like the meat grinder with the fruit/vegetable kit too for making easier applesauce:)
Hmmm….. someone under the mistletoe?
Realistically….tickets to see Rent on Broadway and a drawing from my nephew.
I am hoping to get a pair of boots for Christmas.
I actually really hope I get a matching set of tupperwear this year and maybe some baking supplies like fondant.
The present I’m looking forward to is waking up to open presents at our first Christmas tree of our very own.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I’m hoping for a few new cookbooks about canning/using garden produce… but now that I’ve seen that snazzy pizza slicer, I might be rethinking my list…
Stand Mixer is at the top of my list. I think there is a good shot I will be very happy in a few weeks
I want gift cards to Dharma Trading or BLick art OR this giveaway since I seriously need these utensils!
Marissa – Thank you so much for the inspiration and recipes and great photos you give to us. It has helped make better preserves.
If there was a wish, it would be for a new wheelchair for my son.
I am giving fresh homemade sauerkraut to a lucky few friends who I know will enjoy it!
I would really like to receive a little peace of mind, honestly. It’s been a tough year, and I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things. Peace to you and yours!
I canned for the first time this year – tomatoes, pasta sauce, salsa, peaches, and pear sauce – and I am so happy to have found your blog. I’m hoping to get a dehydrator to experiment with making dried fruit and jerky.
Is it too much to ask for an end to global warming? OK; I’ll settle for a food mill.
I’m hoping just to spend time with family and friends relaxing and having fun!
I guess I am hoping for gift cards so I can buy new clothes for work. It’s not very funny, but it is pretty necessary!
I’m hoping for some recognition and fun family time.
I’m hoping for the newest books by one of my favorite authors: Seanan McGuire’s One Salt Sea and (her alter ego) Mira Grant’s Deadline.
Scanning the comments section has given me some great ideas on what to put on my holiday wish list! I was pretty undecided, but the top two things I’d like are an immersion blender, and some homemade goodies from someone’s kitchen. I’ll giving many homemade goodies this year, and it would be nice to get some in return.
I have always wanted a microplane for zesting and whatnot. I just use the smallest side on my box grater…doesn’t really work as well lol. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m not really wishing for anything particular this Christmas, though I am itching to travel somewhere, anywhere.
I’m hoping for a new knife set!
What I want more than anything is a good night’s sleep. But if I can’t have that, I’d love to win the microplane.
Usually I don’t have anything on my Christmas list. I feel like my life is already so blessed with healthy kids, fun job, long time best friend/hubby, goats, ducks, etc…but, the one thing I asked for this year is new kitchen knives. The ones I use were wedding presents (from the early 80′s).
A hard to find gift of quiet time
Wow..so many comments! I’m hoping for a new stockpot–and good company around the table for eating the soups I want to make.
For Christmas this year all I want is all of the wedding planning to be finalized (1.13.12) so I can enjoy some time with friends, family & my fiance without worrying about the details!
I love Microplane! On my wish list are tons of cookbooks, as well as a Le Creuset tea kettle.
I already got my Christmas present – I got to go to Ladies Rock Camp (a fundraiser for Girls Rock & Roll Camp) and got so excited that my husband bought me my own bass guitar and amplifier. My Christmas present to myself is going to be lessons!
I am really hoping for some new supplies or a GC to make more jewelry!
This will be our first Christmas in NC (after moving from AK.) It’s far-fetched, but all I really want is a white Christmas!
However, a microplane grater has been on my “to-purchase” list for entirely too long, so winning this would be fantastic!
Sneaking in right at the end here! I’m really just hoping for a larger crock pot. I’ve really gotten into using the small one I have that it would be wonderful to be able to cook larger batches of things to freeze.
[...] Microplane Gift Basket Winner Posted on December 11, 2011 by marisa Tweet Thanks to all of you who took the time to share your Christmas wishes (both the tangible ones and the intangibles) in the comments section of the Microplane Gift Basket giveaway. [...]