Knife Dreams

This is the sad, sad story of my knife drawer. It's pretty embarrassing really. I have never in my life owned a decent kitchen knife. It's true. Those two knives up there, those are a pretty accurate representation of my knife drawer. I've never had (but have always longed for) a nifty knife block with fancy pants knife handles sticking out of the top. This is the situation though. I am just about the cheapest person you will ever meet. Really. And to spend an exuberant amount of money on a knife has never really seemed rational to me. That top knife is a Pampered Chef bread knife I broke down and bought for $20 about 10 years ago when I had a functioning bread maker and was "making" homemade bread on a regular basis. It is the best knife I have. OK, it's pretty much the ONLY knife I have. Except for that bottom knife. I have about 10 of those I bought at Walmart for like $5.

It has never bothered me much before, except lately. I have found myself wanting a real grown up woman's knife to use for all my slicing and dicing needs. A few weeks ago I happened to find myself in my friend Carla's kitchen for a Pampered Chef Cooking Show. And I found myself longingly gazing at this little beauty:

I know, right. Guess how much it costs? This bamboo block with 9 luscious forged knives, the Pampered Chef shears which I have seen cut through chicken bones and a lid from a can of corn. And don't forget the honing tool that also comes with the set. Yeah....$415. BAHAHAHAHA! Yep. Like I would ever even consider paying that much for ANYTHING. But then I heard this...Anyone who holds a show in February and has $650 in sales can buy this puppy for what? Lemme hear ya? $166. SAY WHA? Oh yeah, you heard me. One hunered sixey six. Now that....I would consider. I mean, look what you're getting. So I somehow found myself booking a Pampered Chef Cooking Show for February. Who would have ever thunk it?

Anyhoo. I am not a shallow, stupid person. I know that my lack of a decent knife is not a big deal in the grand scheme of everything that is going on in the world today. But I look at it this way. I am a 37 year old woman who spends a vast majority of my life in the kitchen cooking and has never in my whole 37 years of life had a decent knife to call my own. And dang it. I would like to buy myself this set of knives.

So yeah. I'm havin' a PAR-TAY! And you're all invited. Really. You are. Here's the low down:

Thursday, February 24th

My House

6:30 PM

"Real Food, Real Fast"

And if you can't come but would still LOVE to help me get to $650 worth of orders while getting some fabulous products in return (for yourself or someone you know who is getting married or having a birthday or, you know, Mother's Day is coming up), you can order online and have your order shipped right straight to you! How awesome is that? Click here to go to the website, go to "Shop Online" in the top right corner, and enter my name as hostess. Click here for the February Special! And thanks in advance, for helping to make my knife dream my knife reality.

(If you order online your order will not ship until I close my party on Monday Feb. 28th)