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20 Ways to Add Personality and Punch to Your Cooking!
Let's get right to it! 1. Add Sour Cream to your mashed potatoes. 2. After icing your cinnamon rolls, dust the tops lightly with cinnamon. 3. Always use special napkins - use seasonally-appropriate patterns and colors. If your family has a...
Four Easy Zucchini Bread Recipes
Tired of the same old zucchini bread recipe and want to try something new? Here is a standard zucchini bread recipe in addition to three variations your family is sure to love. Zucchini Bread 3 eggs 1 cup oil 2 cups sugar 2 cups peeled and grated...
Modifying Your Recipes, More or Less
You just found that great recipe that you have been trying to find for over year. And now you're dancing around your kitchen in glee! That's when you notice that it makes enough to feed a small army, but you only need to feed two. Or perhaps, it...
So, you have a crock pot , now you want crock pot recipes?
To those of us that don't know, crock pot recipes are among the best out there! Did you receive a crock pot as a gift at your wedding shower or perhaps as a birthday gift and have no idea how to use it? Crock pots are great kitchen tools that...
Soup - A Meal In A bowl
Soup is often called a meal in a bowl; Various forms of cooking remove the essential nutrients from the vegetables, but soups retain most of the essential vitamins and minerals and makes a nourishing and a healthy meal.
Soups can be easily made...
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Make Your Own Gourmet Gift Baskets
Everyone loves to receive a gift basket. Corporate gift baskets are often given by businesses to their customers as a token of their appreciation. However, most gift baskets are person to person expressions of love and friendship.
You can find a great selection of online gift baskets from the very expensive to the cheap. Or, you can come up with your own unique gift basket idea and surprise a cherished friend or loved one.
It's not difficult to make your own personalized gift baskets. Most gift baskets involve a theme.
Here are some sample ideas to get you started:
- Cookie Gift Basket – bake up some homemade cookies and enclose them in colorful plastic wrap, include a personal card or poem.
- Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket – include individual fancy chocolates, boxed chocolates, or the person's favorite chocolate bars along with hot chocolate mix.
- Holiday Gift Basket #1 – a Christmas holiday gift basket idea could include small stocking stuffers, candy canes and homemade Christmas cookies.
- Holiday Gift Basket #2 – a Halloween holiday gift basket can be stuffed with candy, throw in some plastic skulls, spiders, cob webs and assorted creepy items.
- Wine Country Gift Basket – wine and cheese baskets are favorites, include two bottles of choice wine from your favorite winery or wine shop, add cheese and crackers.
- Coffee Gift Basket – Your favorite coffee lover will enjoy fresh gourmet ground roasted coffee (or their favorite brand), flavored creamer, cookies and a fun coffee mug.
- Italian Gift Basket – include a variety of dried gourmet pasta like spinach, whole wheat, or dried tomato, two jars of pasta sauce, fresh mozzarella and parmesan cheese, garlic bread and fancy olive oil.
- Tea Lovers Gift Basket – you can include several varieties of black tea, green tea and herbal teas, a mug and homemade butter cookies adds a nice finishing touch.
- Champagne or Beer Gift Basket - the champagne basket would be elegant: includes a bottle of fine champagne, cheese and crackers, and fancy chocolates; the beer basket includes several domestic and/or imported beers, lagers, or ales, chips, pretzels and nuts.
- Pet Gift Basket – dog and cat gift baskets are the most popular. For a dog you can include: homemade doggie biscuits or cookies, a doggie collar, doggie toys. For a cat you can include: cat treats, cat nip and cat toys.
Now you know that all it takes to make a unique gift basket that will be treasured is a little ingenuity and your personal touch.
Copyright 2004
Donna Monday
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