ATFT turns 2 & someone is going to be a happy goose!
Let’s toast!
Last night, while I was in the Bistro CBD’s kitchen, manically pan frying 20 pork bellies in 4 skillets at the same time, with oil spluttering everywhere, trying to feed 69 hungry mouths at the Food Bloggers’ Dinner Event, A Table For Two has quietly turned 2 years old.
I would never have dreamed about cooking in a professional kitchen two years ago, and the opportunity would never have came without this humble blog, and this humble blog would never have been so active for the last two years without my loyal readers. And that’s you!
I want to keep it short but sweet and from the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank you all for your support with your witty comments and emails, and to those I’ve met through the blog, thank you for your friendship and become one big fat happy family.
I strongly believe in “giving back”. So to celebrate ATFT’s 2 year old birthday, I would like to reward and give one of my readers anywhere around the world, a brand new KitchenAid Artisan Mixer. You can choose the colour of course. If you think your old mixer in the kitchen is on the way out, or you always dreamt about making those pretty macarons without having to whisk egg white by hand, here’s what you have to do:
[Competition is now closed. Winner is announced here!]
THE PRIZE
1 x KitchenAid Artisan Mixer (colour of your choice)
Total value : RRP $632.00AUD
Note: Entrants are opened to all international readers!
HOW TO ENTER
- Leave a comment in this post, be creative!
- Follow ATFT on twitter – http://twitter.com/atablefortwo
- Send out a tweet EXACTLY as it appears below (wrong tweet will not be detected by the system and may resulted not entering into the draw. RT @atablefortwo at the front will not be detected as well
SEND THIS TWEET:
Win a new KitchenAid Artisan Mixer to celebrate @atablefortwo 2 years old birthday! Pls RT. Details at: http://bit.ly/d2NRYn
Terms & conditions:
- You must be over 18 years old or older to enter.
- Entry will be judged on creativity and honesty.
- Entries are opened to all readers around the world.
- We will ship anywhere around the world, but you are responsible for any taxes, custom duties in your country.
- You HAVE to follow @atablefortwo, tweet the line and comment on this post as stated, failure to do so will not be detected by our system and will not be entered into the draw.
- The decision of the judges are final.
- The winner will be drawn and announced on Friday, 22 October 2010, 10.00AM AEST.
- Winner will be notified by email, and the item will be send out once we have your mailing address. If no one claims the prize within 7 days, another winner will be drawn.
- We do not hold any responsibility if the good is damaged or missing during delivery.
- Please use contact form in you have any questions.
- Do no participate if you are not comfortable with the rules and conditions.
Good luck and thank you!
[Chefs, Restaurateurs and PRs who would like to sponsor prizes/giveaways for this special occasion, please contact me directly.]
What is ATFT’s Titbits?
On a lighter note, something is brewing behind ATFT’s factory. I won’t give away too much details for now, but there will be lots of never-before-seen “titbits” to share with you all. Launch date to be confirmed, but sign up now and be the one to have the first bite.
A Table For Two (ATFT) is Billy Law's food blog that features best eats in Sydney and around the world with drool-worthy food photography to salivate your appetite. I also throw in a smidgen of my food and travel photography for good measure. Billy Law also happened to be a contestant on MasterChef Australia 2011. 
Happy Birthday! I don’t have a stand mixer, I’ve been saving up to get one-this would be fantastic!
I am not good at writing poems on the fly so I would just say that I always wanted one of these mixers. It would be so much easier using this to make pie crust and a whole host of other things. Thank you for the chance
Happy Birthday again! Tweeting it out for you http://twitter.com/sethandshannon1/status/26455889593 @sethandshannon1
I would love to make you a birthday cake with a stand mixer
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Table for Two
Happy Birthday to You!
I follow you on Twitter!
@TaraLin
https://twitter.com/TaraLin/status/26461894958
tweeted!
That mixer would be just the ticket for making your birthday cake!
Mixer? I have believed it could be an ufo…….
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While it is incredibly generous that you would give away such a gorgeous (and sought-after) piece of kitchen kitsch, shouldn’t ATFT be the one getting the presents?
Maybe a batch of cupcakes would come your way if the Artisan ended up in my kitchen…
i am not a tweeter.. hope my entry counts here… i would love love love this prize my nan left me hers in her will but sadly it has now died and i want to carry on in her footsteps
for i am like her and want to be like her
ATFT turns 2
Happy Birthday to You
I could need some mixing Aid
baking cookies always late
Artisan would be my hero
and it would cost me zero
My Grandmother (she was the story book kind, cuddly, wise and warm) always had an apple cherry pie cooling on the kitchen window waiting for me (my favourite). She baked with love, and a humble wooden spoon. Grandma instilled in my mother a love of baking which Mum began to pass on to me when I was 2. I sat on the kitchen floor, measuring flour by the fistful and wiping most of the butter in my hair – but at the end of the afternoon we sat down to eat our delicious creation . . . an apple cherry pie. Mum taught me with beaters that had to be wound by hand. I want to teach my daughter to make an apple cherry pie (which is now her favourite) with as much love, but way, way, way less effort using a shiny red KitchenAid Artisan Mixer (my favourite).
How i get my fix?
I love a good mix.
Ill come to ATFT and show my tricks,
i have tweeted, this October six.
I have always wanted this mixer. Great for making cakes and when not in use, it looks great on the kitchen bench.
Creative I am not I will say that owning a Kitchen Aid mixer has made my life 1000X easier and if I won this fabulous one I’d continue the passing on of love and give my starter model to my Sister in Law so she can discover what amazing machines they are. I have a love affair with mine for sure. It’s earned a permanet place on my counters despite them being freakishly small. I even made it an outfit (aka cover). It’s also been the focus in a number of photoshoots and is so cool that even the monsters Um kids I mean want to get involved and cook with me. I use mine all the time and can’t wait to get the attachments to try my hand a pasta making and chopping with it.
Following and tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/nugglemama1/statuses/26650533703
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First of all Happy 2nd Birthday! I can say I’m a novice baker, since I recently graduated w/ vocational baking coarse. I wanted to put up a small home-based bakery business and the only problem is I dont have the necessary equipments to start up. That Artisan Mixer will be a great help.
Hugs and kisses!
Hi ATFT
i tweeted for u
https://twitter.com/compudvd
followed you on twitter @novice2aica and tweeted here mobile.twitter.com/novice2aica/status/26661481332
I’ve heard all about this KitchenAid
But never will I be able to afford it
Here is a special recipe! Happy Birthday!
Dish:
A Table for Two Just for You
Ingredients:
- Billy
- Canon DSLR 5D mkII Camera
- Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens
- Scrumptious food
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Photoshop
- Whip
Method:
1. Bring Billy to the boil.
2. Surround Billy with scrumptious food.
3. Make sure Billy is holding his Canon DSLR 5D mkII Camera with the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens.
4. Take the whip and use it to make sure Billy takes some decent photos of the food.
5. Using Adobe Lightroom, transfer the photos, adjust colours and crop (and let him do whatever, he’s the expert)
6. Open Adobe photoshop to add final touches, just like the icing on the cake.
7. Put it all in the oven for 2 years at 180 degrees celsius.
8. Enjoy A Table for Two.
With all the baking done in my house for all of our birthdays, you think hubby would have got me one of these brilliant mixers (especially after all the hints/nudges) I keep giving but he just hasn’t bitten. So PLEASEEEEEE can I have a lovely red one.
Let me be honest. With a KitchenAid Mixer, I would make a plethora of goodies and peanut butter will be involved. Mmm, peanut butter.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/miss_erma/status/26807215514
One very lonely kitchen
needs a brightly coloured appliance
to entertain the mind of it’s master and create art that’s just delectable and Dee lish us!!!
Hey Table for Two,
Happy Birthday to you!
Twittered like you asked me to.
Winning the Artisan Mixer would be a dream come true!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
hi billy, i left my comment here on the 8th Oct, but wasn’t sure whether i used the same emaill address as my twitter account!
but i twitted: http://twitter.com/meltymelts/status/26727744101
guess you don’t need to publish this comment!
I am ashamed of my current (handheld) mixer. It gets hidden in the cupbourd after every use… Sometimes I neglect to wipe it down…*sigh.
BUT the Artisan Mixer would have pride of place in my kitchen…. right next to the electrical outlet, ready to use when the desire to bake a cake arises!
I’m a blogger and college student studying culinary and can’t friggin afford a stand mixer, and I would really like to make the specialty breads we make in class, at home! Thanks!
Candace´s last [type] ..Getting It Done- but HOW
I can’t believe you are actually giving this away! I’ve taken a cake decorating class and in order to pursue this hobby of mine, I really need a standing mixer! Plus, I love to cook and my husband loves me to bake!
I’ve never even had a birthday present as nice as this! Happy Birthday to you!
I’m following ATFT on Twitter (@katie0stewart)
Tweet! http://twitter.com/#!/katie0stewart/status/27004411281
Happy Blogaversary!
Happy Birthday ATFT! I’d bake you a cake, but the batter would probably still be lumpy since I’d be mixing it with my humble little handheld mixer. I’ve been wanting to take up the revered hobby of bread-making also, but alas, I need the dough for a mixer to knead the dough. Har-har.
Happy Birthday 2 you!! I desperately want a KitchenAid, as an amateur cake maker I’d love to make my own cakes at home with the best tool possible rather than my current method of hand stirring and folding everything in my mixing bowl! Living the life of a uni student the dream of owning one is very distant and the love invested in my cakes would be passed on to all those who enjoy them!
Please please please and a tasty treat would be my thankyou to you!
https://twitter.com/Pinkelaide
with apologies to Michael Jackson
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No Kitchen Aid mixer can be defeated
Looking so funky, a baker’s delight
It can knead bread dough, whip your egg-whites
Just Beat It, then eat it.
Just Beat It, then eat it.
Just Beat It, then eat it.
Just Beat It, then eat it.
2 years old, a toddler, but what a brilliant toddler, soon you’ll be far more than that, just wait until you hit double figures, the years will go quickly by and then you’ll be 10 years old. Happy 2nd Birthday.
following on Twitter…
comment???
ummmmm wellllllllll……nope I’ve got nothing LOL
Struggling Builing a house and frusrtated cause I can’t be as creative as I yearn to be . The only time I feel in my element is when I’m Cooking
I want my own KA so badly! I got to use my mom’s while I was living in the US and I can’t even begin to explain how valuable of a tool it is to someone who does as much baking as I do. The stand mixer I use now can’t even handle mixing bread dough without sounding like it’s dying!
If I win one (or have to buy one) I’d choose the pistachio colour and she would be my new baby, I’d even let her sleep in my bed if she got too scared at night in the kitchen alone, and I’d dress her up in pretty princess dresses to attend birthday parties. Just like my 5 year old daughter (except she actually doesn’t sleep in the kitchen).
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i am so happy i discovered your blog today! totally fabulous.
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ATFT happy second birthday, enjoy the terrible twos
Kitchen aids are awesome and will help me try to recreat the wonders I get to try when we go out.
Discovering ATFT means I’m never STARVED of inspiration and can FEAST on ideas as this site has all the INGREDIENTS to make magic happen! Happy Birthday – have a yum-yum day!
Wish you a very Happy Birthday! I am a little late to the party but hope you have many more delicious and delightful birthdays. Love your blog and have been following it for a while and I think it is fantastic that you are offering such an amazing giveaway.
I have been baking using my Phillips hand mixer that I bought in Singapore 9 years ago (yep, looks daggy but stiff going strong). I have always dreamed of having a Kitchenaid mixer on my countertop and ever since buying a house in Sydney, home renos always come first. I have been telling myself “Kitchen” first, “Kitchenaid Mixer” later and am being very patient. If I win this, it will blow my mind
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I am in desperate need of a mixer, my current one keeps complaining of sore arms! (Please note that my current mixer is one of my 5 children that I managed to con in to beating with my small electric hand beaters!)
I would LOVE a MIXER; i’ve been spending the last couple of years using lthose small electric mixers but find them really messy and always result in doing by hand (which kills ‘spesh when beating egg whites).
ATFT has always fired me up to keep cooking and finding new places to eat everytime i fly back home to syd!
Would you believe I am still using my mum’s kenwood mixmaster from over 20 years ago. I inherited it when she died but I think I might need an upgrade.
I would love one of these mixers. For years I have done mixing by hand, but my wrists are not good these days, so it’s time to spoil myself with a modern marvel machine like this mixer.
Firstly, thank you for opening up this opportunity to win a KitchenAid Artisan Mixer!
I’ve always loved to bake, and I only managed to get afford a small mixer of my own two years ago. However, one can always tell the quality of a good mixer once it’s put to use. Though I have to make do with what I have now, it would be fantastic to win a KitchenAid mixer to be one step closer to my dream of becoming a professional baker and chef! Almost every food blogger that I admire uses a KitchenAid mixer, distinct by the deep beautiful red and of course, the powerful sound when it’s turned on.
Definitely a must-have for every serious baker who prizes his/her creations on quality!
Will greatly appreciate any help to get one step closer to my dream – with a KitchenAid Artisan Mixer!
Great Blog, love how you ‘mix’ it up.
Happy Birthday table for two
I tweete for you
Please give be me the Mixer
So my cakes aren’t just goo!
Happy Birthday!!!
Mi-i-i-i Mix me up!
My son will be turning 2 too soon!! Congratulatons on 2 successful years and celebrating with a giveaway! My son LOVES playing with kitchenware and he willbe THRILLED if I won this prize!
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Happy Birthday – I love the fact that you are giving away a prize to commerate your big day – in Germany the person who has the birthday brings treats (baked items) into the office to share or takes ppl out for drinks. How great to give this mixer out to help ppl bake to share on their big day!
I tweeted here http://twitter.com/#!/treetrout1/status/27452312526
I follow you on twitter as treetrout1
A Table for Two,
A Kitchen Aid Mixer would do,
If I can win,
It would put my head in a spin…..:)
There once was a baker named Jerry
Whose arms were incredibly hairy.
Occasionally you’d see
That his arms were hair-free.
When eating his bread, I’d be wary!
hehe… Happy Birthday!
You’re not ageing….You’re marinating !
Happy 2nd Bday ATFT
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Happy birthday A Table For Two!!
Shouldn’t we be giving you birthday presents, not you giving them to us?
For your birthday, I’m sending you the goose that lays the golden eggs. So then you will be a happy goose too!!
With this mixer I would make so many different yummy and tasty cakes and muffins, that you’d have to roll me to bed every night!
http://twitter.com/kittenmeowface/status/27591030285
You’ve turned two, so Happy Birthday to you!
to own such a supberb mixer would make life in the kitchen a breeze to be albe to make some great dishes
something i cant do without would be a timesaver in our household to help with the progress of baking
From London to Liverpool, Melbourne to Sydney,
Wherever to eat next? The blogosphere will point the way!
A Table for Two and a carefully composed photograph will send me on my way
Whatever to bake next? The blogosphere will inspire and guide!
And, maybe A Table for Two will mix up the possibilities
Once upon a time, a little girl spent a lot of her childhood being torn up between spending time with her two parents (divorced).
She spent a lot of happy memories in the kitchen with her mother making almond biscuits, and her mother would let her lick the whisks once they were done with the tools.
Flash forward 20 years, I would love to have the enjoyment and occasional trip down memory lane of “cleaning” this kitchen-aid.
Plus it would help in my quest of perfecting my sad attempts at macarons!
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Happy (belated) #2 Billy! Have been really enjoying your blog and your company – seems like just yesterday we met over dumplings at SeaBay. Hope for many mire years of blogging and eating. xx
A Bright Red Mixer would be the best little helper a kitchen could have!
Well howdy A Table For Two
It’s rather delicious to meet you
With eats that are rather yummy
And food photography so scrummy
It won’t be my last howdy do!
Congrats and fab idea for a comp, I searched kitchenaid weeks ago and found you, I’ve followed you since and find your tweets very entertaining. Kitchenaid had brought us together
Stlyish, sophisticated, and very creative, not to mention useful around the house. I want to marry the KitchenAid artisan and adopt its features!
A huge and delicious happy birthday to you, and thanks for such a generous contest. (Shouldn’t it be you getting the presents instead of us?)
I’d love to win this mixer, both for its fantastic capabilities and for its gorgeous design. My kitchen is looking pretty drab and this would definitely liven it up!
For casual lunches or special dinners, this mixer will help make my meal a sure winner!
PS I am following you on twitter and have retweeted too.
Happy Birthday ATFT , i Got inspire to Make you a Banoffee Pie but couldn’t as i dont have a Kitchen Aid mixer yet , i got inspired by the banana shot and since im from Australia where we have the best banana’s that are better than Texas and Bigger than Texas Id love to get Cooking with the Kitchen Aide
HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY ATFT!
Lets shout it outloud!
Of you, we’re all so proud!
AFTF it’s your time to shine,
So, together we shall dine,
on your inspirational reciepe’s
Forever I shall vow.
happy birthday! l have only just found your site but after a quick look l think l will be joining you on a regular bases.
i never thought i would want to play with a two year old as much as i would like to play around (in the kitchen, for all you inappropriate people) as i do with you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
A Table For Two
To have a KitchenAid Artisan Mixer all to my own,could it be real or am I dreaming this dream again? I have yearned for this divine instrument to make my baking and cooking a class of their own.
A KitchenAid Mixer will be really sweet.Can’t wait to cook up a storm,from my delectable sponge cake to the richest Mudcake cupcakes.My family will be in heaven and bow to my KitchenAid Artisan Mixer that I have at my feet.
My family think my kitchen comes from a wormhole.Lost in time is what they say.I want a KitchenAid Artisan Mixer to blow them all away.Come on ATFT make my day.
2 years ago, a table for two laid a new blog;
A sprinkling of aspiration, generous helping of dialog.
Adding amateur cooks, hanging out for a kitchenaid
Making sure we never wilt, as we taste talent….. homemade!
Happy 2nd Birthday ATFT ! !
I throw my whisker up in the air somtimes,
Saying Ayoo, No Problemo
Gonna win a Kitchenaid Mixer and Celebrate
Saying Ayoo
Baby lets go
I came to cook, cook, cook, cook
I hit the kitchen
‘Cause that’s my, plans, plans, plans, plans
I’m bakin with all my favorite
Brands, brands, brands, brands
Give me space for all my pans, pans, pans, pans
Fire up that big red mixer
Cause it goes on and on and on
And it goes on and on and on
Happy Birthday TTFT, you’re Dynamite!
She’d make grown men weep
after they saw the tweet.
Flossie would be her name
Creator of sweet.
Happy Birthday to you
ATFT’s turned two
You’ve inspired me with your great blogs
For this my family, Thanks you !
ATFT was recently one
But amidst feeding bloggers some stew suddenly realised it had already turned two
Lets raise our glasses in merriment and glee and look forward to ATFT turning 3.
I hear voices in my head, they tell me that if I have a Kitchenaid Artisan I will be an amazing cook; I believe the voices……I NEED to believe those voices……..
A kitchen aid mixer in red,
would leave my old hand mixer for dead,
so gorgeous and simply the best,
better quality than all the rest,
how I’d love to make this my own,
and give this stand mixer a loving home!
In just 2 years you really grew,
Happy Birthday A Table For Two!
Best wishes for the year ahead,
while you keep tearing your opposition to shreds!
Twins Lara and Jana like to bake,
everyone loves what they make,
Their finances are tight,
school loans take a bite,
a kitchen aid would help them not break!
Dear “A Table for Two”
Greetings Billy, and Happy Birthday to “A Table for Two”.
A Table for Two is a foodie’s internet dream come true, thank you.
I have another dream to share, which complements ATFT – a dream of peace on Earth and enough exciting and glorious looking, tasty food for all people on Earth. Speaking from my own little plot of land, I could happily live on bread, ice-cream, soup, spaghetti, desserts, candy, and biscuits and cakes.
We don’t have a mixer at home at the moment because when moving house, somehow our old hand mixer got broken. An Artisan Kitchen Aid multi-functional stand mixer for mixing, whisking and baking, and even for making dough, pasta and ice-cream would be a life-saving tool for me, because I can then whip up delicious cakes and other beaten foods and share them with friends and family, as well as eat substantial amounts myself.
The hands free 350 watt Artisan Kitchen Aid mixer is so powerful, versatile and easy to use, that as the proud user of such mixer, I would be transformed from a woeful being bereft of cake and biscuit baking to a wonderful mixer cook, worthy of A Table for Two. This awesome mixer also has accessories which turn the mixer into a complete food processing system, able to make breadcrumbs, sausages, and sliced and pureed fruit and vegetables.
Rest assured that my referrals of culinary consumers galore to the Artisan Kitchen Aid mixer and to the blog “A Table for Two”, and my “gastronomical” mixing experience with the Artisan Kitchen Aid mixer, will be highly motivated by the current absence of a mixing “friend”in my home, and by my eagerness to share the sampling of the divine food photography, travel, reviews, competitions and blogs presented by A Table for Two.
With an Artisan Kitchen Aid mixer I will proudly mix and cook mixed or blended wonders, at least for a table for two.
To get my dream going – of worldwide peace and enough delicious photogenic food for everyone to eat – I wish to acknowledge A Table for Two for show-casing food around the globe, and for honoring, appreciating and loving that which sustains Life and delights our senses – food.
Thank you Billy, for sharing your dream, and your skills, experience, knowledge, and humor, and your bits and bites.
May A Table for Two have a delicious 2nd birthday and many fruitful returns.
Bon Appetit!!
Celine
a kitchenaid , would be my maid, id be able to bake for you, a table for two
a birthday cake worth waiting 2 years, that would make you cry happy tears
naked men run amuck
when they hear me using
a brand new Kitchenaid Artisan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
Hey ATFT
It’s Your Birthday
Take A Bow Now
It’s Your Birthday
@jewpoker
So my Girlfriend of 9 Months wants a KitchenAid rather than an engagement ring. Maybe I get a big fat Diamond set into it. THEN SHE CAN ONLY SAY YES. Thanks for the fun times ATFT. Happy 2 years and all the best for the rest.
Happy Birthday to you,
A Table for Two ,
My tastebuds are ready,
For another year reading blogs from you!
The growling from my stomach whenever I open your webpage is akin to a werewolf at full moon, so you transform culinary inspiration into a complete “other world” personality change! Amazing work, Thank you
Best Wishes & Tasty Dishes,
Claire
A belated happy birthday Billy!
The blog is awesome, what else can I say!
A KitchenAid would be a dream come true, as I would finally be able to make a decent brioche! I have been trying for 2 months now by hand, and the stuff is inedible… Unacceptable for a French girl!
Bisous!
Okay- I left this to the last minute- I have been trying to think of a creative comment since the comptetition was put online weeks ago. No luck, I guess I don’t have a creative gene in me but i do know I really want this prize. A kitchen aid would be like a little fairy in the kitchen- making light of bread dough and all the other things i enjoy making. My nan’s sunbeam she gave me (circa 1980) broke a fortnight ago and tears flowed. I know with this in the kithcen all calm would be restored. In return for such a prize it is incumbant on me to give back by ‘aiding’ someone else- i promise to bake regularly and donate it my local food relief service- i have been doing this but largely in an ad hoc way- with a kitchen aid at my side there would be no more excuses.
Thanks for a fantastic site and I look foward to many years to come of good food and pictures from you.
From a card my son gave me recently:
A good mother lets her kids lick the beaters… a great mother turns the mixer off first
My Boyfriend is begging you to give me this mixer, so that I can stop making cake jerky, HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ATFT turns 2 & if I don’t win this mixer, my goose will be cooked!
I don’t want to have a lonely, solo dinner, so I’d use the KitchenAid Mixer to make sure I’d soon be dining at a table for two!