Happy Valentine’s Day Week! Happy Lunar New Year! Happy happy week…
Today I’m giving away something I’ve loved for a long, long time: a mushroom kit from Back to the Roots. That’s right, my fwiendz, today I’m giving you mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms, actually.
This kit is kind of amazing. All you do is water the goods (inside the box) and in about 10 days you have 1 1/2 pounds of fresh, beautiful oyster mushrooms. SO COOL!
If I had 1 1/2 pounds of oysters, I’d make this pasta dish with brown butter and fried sage, or this white mushroom lasagna…or maybe this mushroom risotto.
To enter, simply leave a comment below answering the following question:
1. What’s your favorite 90′s movie? Here are a few of my favorites: Walking and Talking, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Dazed and Confused, Beauty and the Beast…you get the idea! Annnnd go…
Giveaway ends Tuesday (2/13) at midnight. I’ll choose a winner and post the person’s name, along with their favorite 90′s movie. Good luck!
xo
Adrianna
{Fine print: Back to the Roots provided one mushroom kit for me to give away to one of you lovely people. No compensation was exchanged. That’s all!}
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Update!: Loryn is our winner. Her favorite 90s movies: “Pump up the Volume! and Heathers! and Singles” I mean…very, very good choices. Singles is one of my all-time favorites, too. Thanks for playing, everyone!
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One of my favorites is Pretty woman
10 Things I Hate About You
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
I love any 90′s Disney movie but I also will always have a soft spot for Titanic!
Is Pretty Woman a 90s movie? My vote is that off the top of my head.
This is an awesome giveaway and I just bought a huge tub of mushrooms two day ago…and they’re gone. Love them!
Mine must be: Empire Records, titanic, the lion king and the sixth sense!
Clueless was the first thing to pop into mind!!
Sleepless in Seattle
“She’s a ho, she’s a ho, my dad’s been captured by a ho’ what am I going to do?”
10 Things I Hate About You
Gotta love
Shawshank Redemption!
Great movie !
Pulp Fiction!
I actually received one of these mushroom kits for Christmas (such a cool gift idea!) and the only thing that happened was tiny bugs crawling out of the box after about two weeks or so. No mushrooms at all! And I followed the directions exactly. I want to try again though. Any tips for next time?
Whoa…! My fave 90′s is also Pulp Fiction… and I’ve also tried the kit with no luck the first time (maybe it’s my horrible green thumb?!?). Would love the chance to try-try-try again!
I like any Disney movie! I’ll just say Beauty and the Beast to make it simple
Shawshank Redemption
The Lion King came out at an important time in my childhood and will always hold a special place in my heart.
Home Alone (1990)
Clueless. Like, Duh.
(p.s. 2/13 is Wednesday!)
There are so many great movies, but a few of my favorites are: Edward Scissorhands, The Big Lebowski, and Little Women
Toy Story!
Oh, and mushroom risotto is my favorite!
It would be a toss up between Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense for me. I have always wanted to try growing my own mushrooms! Thanks for the chance!
Clueless 4evs
what a fun kit! I love it!
Clueless and Now & Then were my 90′s-tween-jam.
Shawshank Redemption
Oh! Good one. I love Shawshank Redemption. Such a good movie.
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club is from the 80′s but great movie just the same.
1985
I have to go with Drop Dead Gorgeous. It’s ridiculous and I love it!
definitely shawshank redemption! =)
Romeo & Juliet!
Beauty and the Beast for sure!
I can’t decide!
Good Will Hunting — great movie, plus the soundtrack is amazing.
Disney’s The Lion King is a family favorite.
Reservoir Dogs
You’ve Got Mail, definitely. A #1 guilty pleasure.
Forrest Gump
clueless and sister act were the first ones to pop into my head
10 Things I Hate About You For Sure!
Gonna have to go with Aladdin! Love it!
Wow, favorite 90′s movie, that is a toughy… I’d have to sat “The Fifth Element” I’m pretty sure I have that entire movie memorized! And any time it is on TV, I’ll stop everything and watch it.
Reality Bites! Actually, I have 13 trillion faves, but I reaaaaaaaaaaally want this mushroom kit. I’ve always always always been so intrigued!
Thelma and Louise too! Okay bye.
LOVE sleepless in seattle and you’ve got mail! I’m just a romantic at heart
You’ve Got Mail.
Clueless or Ever After
Probably Waiting for Guffman. But What About Bob? is a close second. My sister and I used to watch What About Bob? and Swiss Family Robinson when we were home sick from school. Looking back, that’s really messed up.
good will hunting!!
I was a real little kid growing up in the 90s, so I’m gonna have to go with Aladdin! One jump ahead of the breadline, one swing ahead of the sword….
Ever After
hook or clueless, can’t decide
Legends of the Fall… obviously!
I’d have to say the best 90′s movie in my book is Corina, Corina.
Ohhh dear, here it comes, the embarrassing 90′s movie list
Clueless, The Bodyguard and Point Break! Couldn’t live without them 
My favorite movie of all time is Good Will Hunting (1997)!
my favorite 90s movies are titanic & pretty woman!
Edward Scissorhands! I even remember having such a huge crush for Johnny Depp lol!
Definitely French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. Hilarious!
Such a good movie!
Clueless for sure!
My favourite 90s movie is Trainspotting (I was going to say Die Hard, but it misses the cutoff by 2 years!)
Reality Bites, Chasing Amy, Clueless, Good Will Hunting, My Girl and 10 Things I Hate About You.
I would have to say The Big Lebowski. That movie still cracks me up.
I also love before sunrise & before sunset! That, and Forrest Gump!!
Now and Then!
The Lion King…always. But also Notting Hill even though I didn’t actually discover it until way past the 90s!!
The Lion King! Hands down my favorite movie of my childhood!
You’ve got Mail. =) My friends have those mushrooms and have been raving about how good they are. Thanks for the giveaway!
“While You Were Sleeping” and “You’ve Got Mail” are two of my faves
Heavenly Creatures! Fantastic movie.
She’s All That!!!
Groundhog Day
Titanic was my favorite!
CLUELESS!!!
Forrest Gump!
Father of the Bride! 1 & 2!
Little Women, all the way!
I’ve had my eye on those mushroom kits for a long time!
My favorite is Hook, but so many good ones on here! Clueless, 10 Things I Hate about You, every single Disney animated film? LOVE! I feel like the ’90s is finally getting it’s heyday after it was all about the ’80s for so long. Sorry, I was too young to remember any of the ’80s
Superstar! It’s one of my all time favorite movies and it’s from the nineties (1999 baby!).
It’s definitely Beauty and the Beast. One of my all time favorite Disney movies. I have it memorized.
love the shawshank redemption!
Fight Club!
No question…”A Bronx Tale” So great!
Cruel Intentions! So bad, but so good.
Home Alone. My boys and I still watch this every year.
Although mentioned a bunch of times above, it has to be Clueless. Close second would be Interview with the Vampire. Definitely polar opposites.
Reality Bites! I never buy movies and I actually bought that one because I liked it that much!
Oh many, so many good ones to chose from! I think it is a toss up though between Hook and The Mummy.
Hope Floats and Forest Gump
Mighty Ducks!!
The Big Lebowski!!! One of the funniest movies of all time.
The 90′s had SO many great movies! The one that popped into my head was 10 things I hate about you. My friend and I would watch it all the time and quote it when we were at school together (7th grade!)
So many good ones, but I will say “Titanic”.
10 Things I Hate About You and Never Been Kissed…yes I was a young teenager in the 90s
Forest Gump hands down!
Empire Records!!!
I can’t believe nobody has said Homeward Bound yet! The Mummy also ranks pretty high on the list.
Thunder Heart with Val Kilmer (Sp ?)
Oh…hands down Shawshank Redemption!
My Cousin Vinny !!!
My favorite 90s movie is Toy Story.
Definitely Four Weddings and a Funeral
Oh what fun! Let me see….
-Schindler’s List (sad but a good movie)
-As Good as it Gets (funny and sad)
-The Devil’s Advocate (Al Pacino! enough said)
-American Pie (so funny)
My favorite 90′s movie is Titanic!
Home Alone!
Lion King, classic
You’ve Got Mail – absoluley!!
Wayne’s World is most definitely my favorite 90s movie. Party on Wayne! Party on Garth! SCHWING!!!!! sooo many good one-liners from that movie.
You’ve Got Mail or Clueless, but my sweetheart loves Groundhog Day haha ’90′s movies are awesome! I just watched Reality Bites this weekend and even though I was younger then college age when it came out, I can totally relate. I’ve been wanting to try one of those kits foreveh!
WOW! What an unfair question!! To pick just one?!?! No way….lol. Here are a few, just getting started….
Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Good Fellas, Seven, Braveheart, The Matrix, Jerry Maguire, MIB, Armageddon, Jurassic Park….this list could get long….lol!
Clueless has to be my favorite 80′s movie
I spent this entire weekend cooped up due to the Hurricane on the east coast. MY boyfriend and I decided to have a 90s movie marathon so this is such an appropriate post!!!
Reality Bites was one of the movies we watched together which was awesome but my personal favorite (soundtrack is amazing too) is MERMAIDS with Cher and Winona Ryder. So good!
Toy Story….the 1st one is always the best in the series!
The English Patient. It is one of my all time favorites!
All those awesome teen movies, but 10 Things I Hate About You was my OBSESSION!
Benny and Joon. Love the googles
Shoot this is impossible to answer!! I’d have to go with Romeo & juliet with leonardo dicaprio and claire danes! It was epic! =)
Pulp Fiction
Goodwill Hunting. I loved Ben A. and Matt Damon. Who knew that they would grow up and become such wonderful actors and overall good guys.
I think my favorite was Trainspotting.
Pretty Woman was definitely one of faves at the time, but it’s so hard to choose only one.
Reality Bites, must’ve watched it a zillion times.
OMG, mushroom risotto is my FAVORITE risotto (and that’s saying a lot because I really love any risotto).
Fav 90s movie? My Best Friend’s Wedding. Really, any Julia Roberts movie (Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias, Runaway Bride). How can you not love the woman’s infectious laugh?
Little Mermaid!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Fav!!!!
I love any Disney animated movie. I have so many 90′s faves. Ghost, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve got mail, Pretty Woman to name a few.
One of my favorite movies from the 90′s is The Shawshank Redemption
Grosse Pointe Blank
Dazed and Confused and The Lion King!
Jerry Maguire
My favorites that immediately came to mind were 10 Things I Hate About You, You’ve Got Mail, Hocus Pocus, and Good Will Hunting! I could probably go on…
HOME ALONE!!!!
Secrets and Lies – (1996, Mike Leigh) (Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste)
Hands down Sleepless In Seattle. I love gardening…What a neat giveaway!
Empire Records!!
Reservoir dogs! no doubt!
Pulp Fiction, most definitely.
Favorite 90′s movie. Robin Hood Men in Tights! too funny..
That Thing You Do
Forrest, Forrest Gump
I love Wayne’s World
Edward Scissorhands – hands down favorite
Dude, “Can’t Hardly Wait” of course!
“…. Then she reaches in her bag and pulls out a strawberry Pop-Tart — the very same breakfast pastry I was consuming at that moment! What was I to do? How was I to proceed?”
Also, every. Single. 90′s movie that has ever been made. And ‘Practical Magic’.
I’d have to say You’ve Got Mail is one of my absolute favorite 90s movies!
Patch Adams, one of Robin W’s finished movies.
Shag. My girlfriends and I watched this movie 1000s of times and we each nicknamed each other after the girls in the movie. ( we didn’t use the nicknames in public.) It just reminds me of great times!
Stay Tuned!
Ohhh, Clueless. You will always have my <3.
Now and Then! So good.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT ~~1996~ on of the most beautiful romantic movies ever made ~~I have such memories tied up within this movie as i bought the book for each of my girls ~( ~the oldest 26 and the youngest 21 ) for Christmas as a gift ~~ we had our own little Oprah book club going on ~~they were at this time both out on their own in the world ~~in other words all grown up ~~so we made dinner plans for New years eve and i also surprised them with movie tickets for us to to go see the Picture show at the Flicks here in town ~~I kept hearing racking sobs coming from my youngest girl ~~ totally inconsolable in parts of the movie and as we left the theater and having tried hard to console her she just dissolved in a heap in my arms and stated ~~OH!!MOM!!! no one will ever love me like that in my whole life ~~had to practically carry her back to the car ~~well she did come to know that kind of love and almost as eventful ~~we lost her at sea in ALASKA with her love by her side in 2002 ~~she was but 26 ~~she is to this very day loved every day just like that
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful story with me, with us. Much love to you!
“You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don’t you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?”
Office Space!
Independence Day. Funny, feel-good movie with Americans of all ages and races working together
Dances with Wolves
Fried Green Tomatoes : ) I still watch it every time it comes on tv even though I own it!
Love Pretty Woman!!
Titanic
Joe vs. the volcano. So bad, so good.
Beauty & the Beast! Now I watch it with my kids.
Titantic for me
I love “Titanic” and “Runaway bride”.
I also have a soft spot for “A bug’s life”
10 Things I hate about you :]
I have a few favorites but Empire Records is definitely on the list. I definitely wanted to grow up and work in that record store.
My favorite movie is Sleepless in Seattle.
10 Things I Hate About You! Love the many quirks in that movie!
Dumb and dumber obviously!!!
“We’ve got no food, no jobs…. our pets heads are falling off!!”
Clueless!!
Shawshank Redemption
“When Harry Met Sally”, in the spirit of Valentine celebration!
I’m a dork…The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.
Cyrano de Bergerac.
I’m dying to try one of these kits! My favorite 90′s movie is Forest Gump.
Definitely What About Bob. My Biology professor is obsessed with mushrooms; if I win this I am definitely going to give it to her (dorm life isn’t too good for gardening)
My favorite 90s movie is the Matrix!!!
Thank you for the amazing giveaway!
Too many movies to choose from…….. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
But I think it would have to be 10 Things I Hate About You.
Clueless!!
I’m gonna have to go with Clueless too
You’ve Got Mail!!
This mushroom kit looks amaaazing! A mushroom potato salad idea is bubbling in my mind. Favorite 90′s movie: Sleepless in Seattle. Love.
Barely 90′s but 10 Things I Hate About You!
A Few Good Men. I watch it EVERY time I see that it’s on TV. Not sure why, I just do.
clueless!
My favorite 90s movie would either be Clueless or Trainspotting (they are extremely different, aren’t they?).
Ugh how do I choose there are so many good ones, but to narrow down to one I would say Mulan. I can watch it repeatedly without being bored.
Practical Magic!
Groundhog Day is my favorite!
I’m torn between “HOPE FLOATS” AND “GRUMPY OLD MEN” (liked “GRUMPIER OLD MEN) too!!!!
LOVE…Fried Green Tomatoes!
Sense and Sensibility
True Romance. Favorite movie of not just the 90′s but all time!!!
“Interview with a Vampire”. Trust me it was not the movie that I loved as much as the date that took me in ’94! Now he’s my husband and we’ve got 3 little girls 9, 5, and 3. Funny thing is I had already seen it and read many Anne Rice novels but it just seemed like the right fit for our 1st date!
There are SO many! I love “The Professional.” Anything with Jean Reno rocks my socks. Plus it was obvious that a young Natalie Portman was going to turn into something fabulous. Second is The Usual Suspects. Might have to have a ’90′s weekend of movie viewing this winter!
Can’t remember. Had to be at least one that I watched!
Lion King is definitely a 90′s classic!
Empire Records!
Dazed and confused!! One of my favorite movies of all time. Ahhh Parker Posey!
Disneys Pocahontas.
The Big Lebowski! Late 90s, but still counts, right?! “That rug really tied the room together.”
The Sandlot and D2: Mighty Ducks. I may or may not be a 9 year old boy at heart.
1.5 POUNDS of mushrooms? In ten days? Holy crap! That is freaking awesome.
I can’t stop loving Sleepy Hollow.
Braveheart
“Ghost” a 3 hankie movie for me. “Independence Day” I watch every time it is shown. So many to choose from. I’m sure there are some that I liked better still, but those are the first 2 that come to mind.
Jurassic Park! What a hit. After watching that I would eat dino-nuggets like, 24/7.
P.S. Your page is the bee’s knees – I’ve been following you for so long now! (:
That Thing You Do!
Reality Bites!
So many good ones, but I’d have to say ‘Boondock Saints’ is my all-time 90′s fav
oh my goodness this would be perfect – just last night i woke up and made myself a midnight snack of oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter and all my roommates made fun of me but i am OBSESSED with mushrooms. oh goodness. anyways my favorite nineties movie is before sunrise. i could watch that over and over and holy lord ethan hawke. i can’t wait for the new one to come out!
Clueless!
Lion King is my sentimental favorite because we took our boys to their first and only visit to a drive-in theater on vacation.
My favorite 90s movie is Clueless! My sister had the soundtrack too.
Oh, such a hard question! All the Disney movies have a special place in my heart… as well as Robin Williams Movies. I do, however, love 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, and Patch Adams. I’m terrible with these sorts of questions.
Curly Sue, and it was the first film I used to look only on english
Beauty and the Beast will always be my favorite!
My favorite was Schindler’s List
Good Fellas
Goodfellas!!! Amazing movie. Love the idea of this mushroom kit. It’s so hassle free!
American Beauty – still in the 1990′s and on the edge of the new millenium. Was an amazing, mind blowing movie.
Cruel Intentions. Ryan Phillippe in his prime…’nuff said!
A MUSHROOM KIT!!! Best giveaway. Ever. Fav 90s movie? I was just a kid in the 90s, but I would have to forgo all the Disney films and say “Schindler’s List”
French Kiss with Meg Ryan & Kevin Klein
Forrest Gump. ’nuff said…. except I love mushrooms.
I know this is cheesy, but definitely one of my fave 90s movies is the Lion King. I was 11 years old when I saw it with my dad and my sister, who was 8 at the time. She was crying so much when Mufasa died and I was there to comfort her. One of the earliest loving sister memories I have.
probably have to go with The Usual Suspects.
All time favorite movie not just 90s is Goodfellas. Nothing like a gansta film.
There are many. I like comedies. Real life is drama enough. I’ll go with There’s Something About Mary.
Probably Pulp Fiction!
hands down Empire Records
If I had that amount of mushrooms, I’d Stirfry them in butter and garlic and inhale. Back to your question, Flubber, A Bugs Life, Jumanji.
Clerks and My Best Friends Wedding!
My girl! Always makes me cry
My favorite 90′s movie is Empire Records. So awesome and hard to fine these days.
Yea Mushrooms!
My favorite 90′s movie is Pretty Woman!
“From Dusk Til Dawn”
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I will say Beauty and the Beast.
It’s a tie between “The Mighty Ducks” and “The Sandlot,” despite my zero interest in boys or sports at that age. Both are solid movies about friendship, overcoming obstacles and all around winning at childhood.
Pretty Woman is a classic, I can watch it over and over.
Clueless! Because it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty.
Terrence Malick’s Thin Red Line!
Everything about the way it’s filmed, the soundtrack and the characters is amazing and definitely makes the length worth it.
Also, mushrooms are good. I’ve only recently rediscovered them and they’re now part of the foods I can’t believe I spent my entire life without. Getting to cooking definitely makes you realise how good certain things can be…
Gosh, what a difficult question.. American Beauty, and Fight Club!
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Back to the Future – was that the early 90′s or late 80′s??
Good Question! Why not a little love story for Valentine’s Day – Titanic <3
The first Speed movie with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Keanu…yum!
… I like to sit at home (alone) in the dark, watch “Pretty Woman” and grow mushrooms !
Reality Bites!!! I think no movie better captures the spirit of the 90s. Plus it had an awesome soundtrack.
Pump up the Volume! and Heathers! and Singles!
My favourite movie from the 90′s is Forrest Gump!! So good.
clerks!
and office space !
Empire Records, Clueless, Arizona Dreams, The Lion King,and Shawshank Redemption. Whew!
Silence of the Lambs, on the edge of my seat every time!
Gosh….I wish they’d made Chocolat one year earlier……because that is my favouritest.
Sorry, all else becomes second best…:)….
Forrest Gump is genius,
The Silence of the Lambs is awesome,
so is The Shawshank Redemption…
but seriously….Chocolat was published in 1999, and the movie came out in 2000…so I just wanted to point this movie out to you…..because it’s Amazing…
Thank you!
Clueless!
Oh man, Toy Story and The Nightmare Before Christmas are two of my favorite movies! I’m such a sucker for a good animation film!
Pulp Fiction
Pretty Woman for sure.
Definitely Gattaca
Clueless!!! Love me some Paul Rudd.
clueless also.
clueless!
Pulp Fiction
Where the Heart is!! (Wal Mart BABY!) LOVE this movie =)
Clueless is my classic 90′s favorite movie
Pretty Woman.
Romy and Michelle’s high school reunion <3
Looove the 90's.
PS. let's be best friends Adrianna
Ooooo! A Life Less Ordinary. Cameron D and Ewan MacGregor! Being John Malkovich, Reality Bites… so many.
I’d have to say my favorite is The Lion King.
Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. Also love Out of Sight and Pulp Fiction.
YOU’VE GOT MAIL
I have to pick one? Only one? This is not easy. I have like, 865.
But for the sake of this great giveaway, and in the interest of time:
Shawshank Redemption.
Fried Green Tomatoes.
I’d be so happy to win. I’ve considered buying these very same mushroom kits – I am a huge fan…
As for 90′s movies I am drawing a blank…I don’t generally rank my movies by date… but here goes: Pulp Fiction, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Kids, Falling Down.
Gah! Just one!? I can’t. Okay. Clueless on my perky days. 10 Things I Hate About You on my normal days.
love Miss Congeniality!
The 90s were full of gems but I have to go with my all time, timeless favorite (of which I have no shame): Titanic
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Just making it in under the cutoff, from 1999, is my personal favorite: Office Space!!!
omg so many!!!!!! anything with drew barrymore haha.
matilda, clueless, aladdin, the wedding singer, don’t tell mom the sitter’s dead, home alone
TOO many good movies! I loved Clueless (for the clothes ie the fashion taste of a teenager in the 90′s…), Empire Records (for the soundtrack), Titanic (cried for days… oh to be young and silly again…), Shakespear in Love (simply because it was beautiful.)…
But my favorite was definitely Romeo & Juliet with C.Danes & L.DiCaprio. Everything about it was amazing! Watched it at least 100 times…
Clueless! It will always be Clueless. Don’t get me wrong I love all of the movies you listed but Clueless just makes me want to put on some jammies, grab that dinner for one pasta, and hang out on my couch.
I’m going to have to say it’s 3 Ninjas – Kick Back, when they go to Japan lol
Reality Bites was my cultural, coming-of-age, touchstone. It was everything I wanted growing up to be about. Grunge forever!
Ten things I Hate about you!
The Silence of the Lambs!!! So good.
Ah, 90s! Before Sunrise it is.
Thank you for the cool mushroom kit!
…A difficult choice. Forest Gump was so very good, as was Shawshank- but my fav has to be Legends of the Fall. Oh my, Brad Pitt was a dream in that one!
Would love an opportunity to grow mushrooms!!! But either way, your blog is a gift to me whenever I read it so keep posting! Happy Valentine’s.
Empire Records! I still have to watch it whenever it’s on tv.
I’m just a kid at heart. I would have to pick Home Alone. I love watching it.
King Ralph – great family movie. Still makes me giggle.
I wanted to say High Fidelity but it turns out that’s from 2000