Adventures in Food
Giveaway! Handcrafted Oak Cutting Board
With Thanksgiving just 15 days away (yes, 15!), I wanted to show my thanks to MKES readers with a chance to win a hand-crafted oak cutting board with maple and walnut inlays.
But before I get to the giveaway, I wanted to share a share a few details about what makes these cutting boards so special.
The boards started as a way to recycle scraps leftover from Ralph Teets’ woodworking business based in Girard, Ohio. After crafting furniture, cabinets, and clocks, Teets often had ends leftover that he just couldn’t bear to throw away. Instead, he started making cutting boards as gifts for friends and with his wife Joanne’s encouragement he started selling them online at Cutting Board Art and at craft shows.
A good, hardwood cutting board, explained Teets, can be something for you to pass down to your kids–and grandkids. Like cast iron cookware, if you take care of hardwood, it lasts. And lasts.
Here are Teets’ suggestions for keeping your cutting boards in tip-top shape:
Don’t put the board in the dishwasher. Ditto with submerging it, or soaking it, in water.
Do go ahead and rinse the board with water and a mild antibacterial soap to clean.
Don’t use the board in a microwave or oven.
Do condition the board with butcher block oil.
It’s simple to enter, just leave a comment here explaining your favorite holiday fixin’ for your chance to win the Linear Cutting Board pictured above.
The giveaway winner will be chosen at random from all entries received before 9p.m. EST next Wednesday, November 16th. I’ll announce the winner the following day, November 17th. (Only open to residents in the continental United States.)
*Just a note: Cutting Board Art provided a review cutting board to MKES along with one to giveaway to a reader. Thanks.
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about 3 months ago
Ooo, pretty! My fave fixing is stuffing, no question. I’m a starch girl.
about 3 months ago
Mashed potatoes are my all time favorite, but I’m going to do a stuffed pumpkin this year…yum!
about 3 months ago
My all time favorite is raisin cake! My mom made it every thanksgiving and Christmas. When I make it, it instantly brings me back to my childhood. The best smell ever!!!!
about 3 months ago
I am such a sucker for pretty cutting boards! I think my favorite holiday fixin’ is cranberry sauce. Love to make a jellied version from scratch.
about 3 months ago
Gorgeous cutting board!
about 3 months ago
sweet potatoes — just plain baked, no sauce or candied yams here. mashed and mixed with white potatoes is a favorite way to enjoy them too.
about 3 months ago
I’m with Debbie – stuffing all the way. I was a vegetarian for years and it was like stuffing was the main course!
about 3 months ago
Beautiful board! I just threw out all our old janky plastic ones in the name of kitchen safety, so I could use a new wooden one.
My favorite side has ALWAYS been stuffing, so much that I’ll make it all 12 months of the year. No stuffins, no sausage, no chestnuts, no oysters. Just stuffing.
about 3 months ago
I like yams with toasted marshmallows or with the yummy crunchy pecan and cinnamon topping. Sweet!
about 3 months ago
Sweet potatoes loaded up with brown sugar crumble and marshmallows.
about 3 months ago
That is one good looking cutting board. I think I have to agree with most other posters that stuffing is on my mind right now! Yummy.
about 3 months ago
My favorite is of course the turkey! I hosted Thanksgiving for the first time last year and it came out almost perfect. Hopefully it iwll be the same this year!
about 3 months ago
gorgeous board!! my fave is the sweet potatoes layered with fresh grated ginger, and butter, and a little brown sugar. OH YUM.
i love it when people not only handcraft such beautiful items, but they are something useful.
about 3 months ago
Nice board! The best stuffing recipe I’ve yet to find is made from biscuits, bacon and mushrooms. Looking forward to eating some in just (is it really?) 15 – no – 13 – days. Better get busy…
about 3 months ago
I can’t say I really have a fave fixin’…well, maybe stuffing, but I can’t say I’ve ever made a stuffing from scratch! That’s a cool cutting board…I think one of my daughters might like it!
about 3 months ago
When you say “fixin’”, do you mean any food? If so, my favorite holiday food would have to be my killer pecan pie.
Thanks for the giveaway and have a terrific Thanksgiving!
about 3 months ago
Stuffing is one of my favorites too.
about 3 months ago
Pecan pie is my all-time favorite pie. My mom would toss in a few dark choc chips too. Yum
about 3 months ago
I love the peas, mixed with gravy and a bit of mashed potatoes. Thanks for the story of this cutting board. I did not know about butcher block oil as a means of preservation.
about 3 months ago
No contest. My take on Emily Dickinson’s black cake is a MUST every year. And oh, boy, do I know someone who could use that cutting board!
about 3 months ago
My favorite side with the turkey is the stuffing hands down!
about 3 months ago
My favorite is still my mother’s pumpkin pie, although I can no longer get it. My next favorite, I guess, is the neighbor’s stuffing with water chestnuts. I love having that little crunch in the stuffing!
about 3 months ago
As I didn’t learn you could actually brown meat on a stove until I was 18, I think I’d have to go with a can of cranberry jell-o (?) with the rings still intact. Or Chinese food.