A funny thing happened last night…..
When I got off work, I headed to the grocery store for some items I needed to make dinner for a friend of ours that we were seeing later that night.
I grabbed the handful of items and scurried back to the condo to pull together a quick meal.
As I got off the elevator and turned the corner, I saw a flat-ish, rectangular box propped up agianst the door…as I got closer, I noticed the box was an All-Clad box. I checked the label and it was addressed to me. However, I had not ordered anything.
The box had a picture of this on it:
Yes, that would be the All-Clad Stainless Gourmet 12 x 15-in. Lasagna Pan.
I thought maybe it was a Christmas present Paul ordered for me, but came late….so I called him, but of course he didn’t answer! So I had to let it sit there till he got home. He assured me that he did NOT buy this for me (if I were him, I would have taken the credit…but whatever).
We racked our brains a bit, and then I found a note inside the box (that I read about 45 minutes later, after I stopped carressing the pan and talking to it in a baby voice). It turns out that when Paul bought me this:
There was a rebate for this:
A cast aluminum Au Gratin pan. So we filled out the rebate and sent it in….back in AUGUST. And just the other day I was thinking, “what ever happened with that?”
As it turns out, the company had such a great response to the rebate, they ran out of the Au Gratin pans. FINE BY ME! I’ll get WAYYYYYYYYYYYY more use out of the lasagna pan: it’s bigger, wider, and just as shiny as could be.
I can’t wait to make something in it and get it all stained and cheesy……MMMMMMMM. Now I’m hungry!
Best surprise ever. I’m super j.
yeah, I’m super stoked to make my healthy version of Ina’s spicy turkey lasagna…and I can use my hot and fancy new pasta maker to create gluten free lasagna noodles for my poodles! (and Paul too!)