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I went to the Emile Henry/Mauviel warehouse sale and got 2 mauviel copper pots, 1 mauviel copper sauce pan, a copper mold, a mauviel copper paella pan (cannot wait to use this), Loads of Emile Henry coffee mugs, quiche pans, loaf pans, pie pans, mauviel roaster (solid try ply stainless its very heavy. A new salt pig, various and sundry cuisine-pro items. Mr Tomato done good by letting me shop for me.
I also shopped for some other folks you know while I was there (wink)
I may or may not hit Williams Sonoma Friday to pick up the christmas stuff cheap. Depends if I can sneak away while he is in Macy's.
Shhhhh no one tell.

I got a charcoal grill - one of the nice barrel sort with cast iron grates. Can't wait to get back home, cure it, and then fire it up. I ordered a custom cutting board and should have it in a couple of weeks.

This was the BEST holiday ever, in the history of holidays. Santa brought a Kitchen Aid standing mixer, a $55 bottle of balsamic vinegar (which I'm so nervous to use!), soy-free chocolate (allergic to soy), and a gift certificate to Williams Sonoma.

I got a new mandolin! So exciting. After the traffic of yesterday, I think I'll stay home, drink some wine and not think about the bargains I am missing!

I got a great gift for Hanukkah (unexpected, too) - a Panasonic bread maker I've wanted for a while! I'm prone to wrist tendonitis in my right wrist (may occur even if I just stir something a bit too vigorously, let alone knead bread), and I don't have a KitchenAid, so for the last couple of years my bread/roll baking solution has been kneading with my hand mixer (which is also not that good for my wrist, but I can't give up on homemade bread and rolls). So now, finally, I've got help! Now I just hope that all great reviews I read about it were true...:-).

I received "The Professional Chef 8th Edition" from the CIA.... forget what I said about not knowing everything when it comes to cooking.... hehe... just kidding... Between this book and "La Rousse Gastronomique" and McGee's Food and Lore I have about 900lbs. of cooking wonderment at my disposal.... but it begs the question.... Do I need to reinforce my floor under the bookshelf?!

It was cooking tome heaven. A day at ElBulli, Alinea, Jamie at home and Dinner at my place. Oh and maybe best of all - Peugeot salt and pepper grinders. Lovely.

I got the Top Chef cookbook!

I got almost exclusively foodie gifts!

- a yogurt maker
- a copy of the family cook book
- a magic bullet
- mini pie pans
- craisins
- dark chocolate
- a gift card for Trader Joe's
- a rolling mat for pie dough
- A Professional Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer

Kitchen Aid immersion blender with the chopper and whisk attachments. Yay! Also received a digital probe thermometer and a french bread pan.

a gift card to whole foods. and chocolate... lots and lots of chocolate.

Coupons? Macys? Where did these magical coupons come from?

I'm still trying to decide if I want to bother going out tomorrow or not. I might just curl up with some cookbooks.

But sales are good too....

@dbcurrie: in the paper newspapers (which I don't buy, but sometimes have access to from people who do get it delivered) there are usually 20% off coupons for Macys and Lord & Taylor on the east coast--at least that's what I assume to which people are referring! However, they're usually good for more than one day, so you can go to the mall, say on Monday, when people are back to work, if you have time, and don't feel like braving the sales/returns crowds. (The coupons are good on everything, btw, in case you also buy clothes rather than cooking supplies at these stores ;)

My food presents are 'the awesome, the good, and the ugly'

The awesome: A digital camera! In the age of the Internet, being able to take food pictures makes this a food gift!

The good: From my equally Snoopy-mad friend, a little stuffed snoopy in a green elf costume with some Whitman's chocolates. Yeah. not gourmet, but Snoopy's passionate food opinions about pizza, rootbeer, and nasty coconut containing chocolates makes this a great food gift!

The ugly: Sadly, from same said friend--some dog biscuits for my dog that smelled really off--I offered them to her, but she wouldn't eat them, and some citrus fruit for me with mold on the skin. Yeah, I could have peeled them, but I just didn't want to eat them. I feel terrible throwing gifts out, but I can't stand funky smells in my kitchen. I love my friend--she also gave me the Snoopy--but she has lots of people to buy for so often buys from Costco, and sometimes the quality from the warehouse stores (unintentionally) can be hit or miss.

zingermans/vosges sweet and savory caramels
a book called "Street Food Chicago"

Very happy with the booty this year:
- several bags of kakidane -- spicy rice crackers
- a large collector tin of Yoku Moku cookies
- a box of gaufre
- udon from Japan
- blender to make smoothies
- Nikon D60 to take pics of food at restaurants when I have the guts to do it. Realistically, 90% of my pics will end up being of my puppy.

I got Mark Bittmans How to Cook Everything and a cookbook with gorgeous photos called The Food of Italy.

@dbcurrie, if you have a macy's credit card, they send coupons throughout the year. my favorites are the 20% off ones, but they also have things like spend a hundred bucks and get twenty five bucks off the total.

I hit the jackpot - BakeWise and The Secrets of Baking - yahooo!
Also got a box of Enstrom's toffee which was a BIG disappointment - what happened to all the almonds?

Oh I also got a 14 inch paella/saute pan, which is exciting.

I also got a paella pan! With some lovely tapas dishes, a beautiful Moroccan tagine (can't get enough of looking at it and can't wait to cook in it!), a Camilla Panjabi gorgeous cookbook (50 Great Curried of India), a blender, a mortar and pestle and the Hell's Kitchen boardgame! Obviously, they know me quite well but I do have other interests, I swear!

I got my boyfriend a barbeque so I think we're pretty much covered in our future culinary needs!

My husband gave me the Kitchen Aid food grinder attachment I've been wanting for years! We had to borrow his parent's to make venison sausage a few weeks ago, and I think it finally convinced him how great that attachment is!
This week our local grocery has pork loin on sale...I know I'll be trying it out to make some New Year's sausage!
I also received a couple of cookbooks...including the new Bon Appetit one, and some homemade fudge & candy. The fudge came in a very cute mini loaf pan w/poinsettias on it.

a cute basket with 2 mugs, dunkin donuts coffee, and 2 yummy no sugar added brownies with frosting.somebody loves me.