Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Giveaway! Cuisinart 16 Cup Food Processor!


I know, that title is hard to believe, but it's true folks! My lovely friends at Williams-Sonoma have generously partnered with me to giveaway this beauty of a food processor—it's a brand new model that I am already coveting, the Cuisinart Elite Die-Cast 16 cup Food Processor. Here's a little about it (you should hear it from the manufacturer to make sure you get all of the glorious details!):

"The machine’s powerful 1,000-watt motor allows for effortless slicing, chopping, shredding, mixing, and kneading. Three separate nesting bowls (16-cup, 13-cup and 41⁄2-cup cap.) can be switched out instantly to reduce downtime while processing different ingredients. Designed to handle liquids more efficiently than ever, a seal-tight gasket between bowls and lid prevents liquids from spilling while the machine is in use, and locking blades stay put while you’re pouring out ingredients. Redesigned adjustable slicing discs provide customizable control over size and thickness when you’re chopping and slicing, and the reversible shredding disc allows you to quickly grate thick or thin shreds of ingredients. Includes three bowls, two discs, two blades, accessory storage case, spatula, how-to DVD and recipes. 1000W. 8 3/4" x 11” x 17 1/2" high. A Williams-Sonoma exclusive."

AMAZING! (Need more details? Check out the video at the bottom of this page.)

**Okay, for your chance to win the prize, please post a comment with a username (as in, not as "anonymous") describing what you would make if you won this. (Like pesto with fresh basil from your garden, perhaps, or hummus, or to knead bread dough) by 11:59 EST Sunday June 7th.

To ensure that I have your info should you win, feel free to send me an email at thingswemake at gmail dot com with your full name, username and mailing address.

And to prove to you that you really, really do need this in your life, here is a recipe that you could very easily make using this new machine.


Thin Crust Pizza Dough

  • 1 1/2 tsp. active dry yeast
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 3/4 cup warm water (about 105°F)
  • 1 cup cake flour
  • 1 cup plus 3 Tbs. all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
  • 2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
In a small bowl, whisk together the yeast, sugar and warm water and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.

In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the dough blade, combine the cake flour, all-purpose flour and salt and pulse 3 or 4 times.

Whisk 1 Tbs. of the olive oil into the yeast mixture. With the motor running, slowly add the yeast mixture to the flour mixture, allowing each addition to be absorbed before adding more. Pulse the machine 10 to 15 times to knead the dough. The dough should clean the insides of the bowl but will be slightly sticky.

Coat the inside of a large bowl with the remaining 1 Tbs. oil. Dust your hands with flour and remove the dough from the food processor. Form the dough into a ball and place in the bowl. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Divide the dough in half and roll out as directed in the pizza recipe. (Like this one for Heirloom Tomato and Basil Pizza.) Makes two 10-inch thin-crust pizzas.

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**Also, starting tomorrow I'm going to be posting weekly recipes from some of my favorite foodies over at ReadyMade so make sure to come join me there!

39 comments:

  1. Oh, how I would love to win this beautiful Cuisinart Elite Die-Cast 16 cup Food Processer. I have just moved ... after 43 years into a smaller place, so I need some new things. I have a large family who come to visit often and then I could make the fabulous pizza with the great recipe that was given. Loretta Reyes

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  2. This would be super helpful when I make my hummus! :)

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  3. I would make pesto....and pie crust!

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  4. Butternut squash soup! Last year I tried using my blender... The heat from the squash built up, rocketing the lid off the top and covering my kitchen with squashy bits. I think the Cuisinart is a much better vehicle for out-of-the-oven roasted squash!

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  5. Ooh - I would use this to make organic baby food and pesto - my two new hobbies!
    {moremessiness at gmail dot com}

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  6. Oh boy, oh boy--this would be the perfect replacement for the processor I currently use which came from a tag sale (it WAS in the box!) I would love to make homemade salsas--sweet and savory, gazpacho, broccoli rabe pesto...so many ideas for this puppy!

    --Alissa

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  7. Oh my gosh- I'd make pesto, that pizza crust (LOVE homemade pizza!), some salsa or pico de gallo, this awesome spicy dippy sauce I make to go with sticky rice...I'd be such a good little domestic goddess with this bad boy!

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  8. Sweet! Thanks for the opp! Now if only I had the grill pizza stone - need to get that.

    I'm a Lebanese bean lovin' gal, so I use my almost-broken-down B&D processor to make hummus and black bean dip weekly. It's super good for me and so versatile - I sometimes used them as "taco" spreads.

    Thanks for the recipes - keep 'em coming. The gal at Urbanestics is posting her Dad's granola recipe today, so I'm feeling foodie love!

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  9. Oh the question is not "what would I make" the question is what WOULDN'T I make!?"

    I actually broke my friend's twenty-year old blender on Friday trying to make hummus - oops!

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  10. This is fabulous! I would definitely make pesto with the basil growing in my garden!

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  11. Oh, hello, gorgeous!

    Just in time for pesto season, too! I would also make chocolate chip cookie dough -- and hope to get them in the oven before I ate it all.

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  12. What an attractive looking machine! I would make pesto, and hummus, and then combine them together to make humsto. And it will be delicious! This is what one does when they are recently unemployed :-(

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  13. Having never owned a food processor, I would make all of the things I already make, but better and faster!

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  14. Edamame hummous. Why would I waste space storing two foods when I could blend the two finest into one?

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  15. This would be so much fun to have! The opportunities are endless - not only would I love to try the recipe you posted, but I've got a salsa garden growing and I'm certain I could use it for that! And I am trying to do more of making my own jam / applesauces - this would be perfect!

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  16. AMY!!! Just yesterday I made a thin-crust pizza dough from this week's Times healthy choice section. My cuisinart is tiny and I ended up blowing the motor (though luckily a dough had formed. To be cooked tonight and brought to the City Park for the first City Band performance of the season). I would love to win.

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  17. Amy, you have the most incredible way of reading my mind! Last night we had company, and I made pizza. I was missing a food processor beyond belief. The dough, the cheese... wish I had this prize!
    We also love making hummus and recipes from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. The author loves food processsors as much as us. So my fingers are crossed. Tightly. Every finger.
    I look forward to your ReadyMade posts.
    Katie

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  18. Perfect for graham cracker crusts for a luscious cheesecake. And it could definitely help along my pesto habit.

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  19. Wow! I would love to make Edamame Hummus in this! {Its an Ellie Krieger Recipe, we LOVE her around our house!} Thank you for the WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS Giveaway!

    CherryBlossomsDesign at hotmail

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  20. Definitely some salsa. I went to a friend's house the other day and she had the best salsa that she made using her food processor. Dang! I don't have one of these! It was so good! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  21. I would start by trying pizza dough, and then knead bread dough. I've never tried to make these things at home. Thanks for the great giveaway!
    ap_lemos at yahoo dot com

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  22. Definitely salsa and filling for my homemade eggrolls. It would be great for mixing bath bombs as well!

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  23. I would make something that both vegans and non-vegans would enjoy a lot: a delicious, creamy dish, where the sauce is the star ingredient.

    The dish:
    Tofu baked in almond mint cilantro sauce (served over brown rice).

    I think a good sauce can take a dish for good to outstanding. And I would love to use this food processor to experiment with sauces, among many many other things!

    I would also love to make soups with it, like a creamy potato-leek soup with red chard. So many possibilities!

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  24. Gazpacho soup! Perfect for summer. I'd serve it with guacamole, tortilla chips, and cheap Mexican beer and eat it outside.

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  25. Haha! What's funny is that I WOULD make pesto with the basil from my garden- gardening just wasn't an option back in AZ, but since we moved back to NY I've been planting everything I can think of that I use on a regular basis- Basil was at the top of the list!

    I've been making a LOT of salsa, too, since it got warm out, my recipe is flawless- and using a knife seems to take forever when you have a whole hungry family with their tortilla chips at the ready.

    I don't have a lot of gadgets, but this is one that I've been thinking I've been needing for a long, long time. =)

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  26. Fantastic giveaway! I would make so many things with this. I think my top pick would be roasted tomato sauce to freeze for winter. I would put tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil from my garden and blend up tons of it to freeze. I would also love to make pesto as well.

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  27. Omigosh, I would love to win this! My boyfriend and I just moved into a new apartment with a large kitchen and this would be excellent to have. I would use it for so many different things; Alex would definitely want it for pesto, and I would use it for all sorts of dough, as well as tomato sauce, dips, potato puree for my extra special potato soup! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  28. I would absolutely LOVE to win this!!! I would learn to make dough (I have a yeast phobia)!!

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  29. what a beautiful machine! (can a machine be beautiful?? Because if so, this one is)

    i would make ratatouille...because i don't have a mandolin and can never quite get the slices thin enough to make the recipe work. with the summer months here, the vegetables needed are in season so this dish would be delish.

    thank you for the giveaway!

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  30. A food processor is the only thing I need for all my dreams to come true! Because of a hormonal imbalance in my body, I have recently converted to a vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free diet to see what improvements come about. I can't even have any fruit!!!

    So, with this amazing machine, I would be able to make some fast, easy and delicious vegetable soups, salsas, nut pates and butters, even the dough for some gluten-free pizza crust!

    Because one can only eat so many raw celery sticks before life starts to feel a little boring.

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  31. I would make Didi Emmons' fantastic edamame guacamole.

    My food processor just bit the dust, and now that summer is nearly here, I've been really bummin' about it!

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  32. Oh my! This is my first season as a member of Community Supported Agriculture and I am going to be swimming in delicious, fresh fruits and veggies. This new processor would help me to make pizza dough to create amazing veggie pizzas. It would help me make a variety of fresh salsas, soups, etc. It will be like having my very own sous chef!
    Thanks so much for the opportunity to win this giveaway!
    Fingers are crossed...

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  33. What as fabulous food processor! After seeing the pizza recipe, that would have to be the first thing I would make. Pesto would be a close second. Thank you for this opportunity.

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  34. Ooh ooh! I would use this to knead and slice and dice and mmmmm, that pizza looks yummy! Man, this thing would come in handy at my house!! What wonderful giveaway!

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  35. I so need this! I love to cook and bake and yet don't have one of these. Bread doughs, tart crusts, arugula pesto are just a few things that come to mind as I drool at the possibilities.

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  36. I would use it to make French Pear Tart Dough, the best dessert ever!

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  37. I would make a mixture of cilantro, garlic, lime, and olive oil to stir into rice to make cilantro lime rice! mmm.

    Thanks for the giveaway Amy :)

    -caitlin h.
    caitlinhyla AT gmail DOT com

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  38. Each time I press "Grind" on my mini food processor, my heart breaks a little. The poor thing has dreams of being a super fancy Elite Die-Cast 16 cup food processor, but it's just not big enough, nor is it strong enough, so every time it tries to grind or chop, I can smell its insides burning. I fear that my little guy just couldn't handle the Apple Almond Tart that I'm dying to make.

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  39. I have always wanted a cusinart food processor, and this one is beautiful. I make lots of pesto in the summer and this would make the job so much easier. Also will help with all the other garden veggies.I just watched the Williams- Sonoma video, and I was so impressed.

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