Comments on: The Gift of Food

By: Michelle Crist

Michelle Crist — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:05:01 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Since Saturday I’ve made, Winter White Chocolate Mix, Almond Roca, Burnt Sugar Almonds, Poppy Chow and Rum Pecans.

~whew~ I’m exhaused,but darn if everything wasn’t/isn’t scrumptious!!

Thank you all again!

By: Carissa

Carissa — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:03:48 +0000

This year, I gave away white chocolate popcorn crunch in pretty little jars. (It has dried cherries, pistachios, and cinnamon toasted pumpkin seeds in it too… YUM.)

Here’s the recipe!

http://prettyhungrygirl.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/pumpkin-seed-christmas-munch-and-bonus-recipe-holiday-spiced-pumpkin-seeds/

By: Heather Bonner

Heather Bonner — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:05:41 +0000

I made the Apple Pie In a Jar (apple pie filling) this year for teachers and bus drivers. We made some for ourselves too. It makes an amazing pie. We always pick too many apples in the fall and we usually end up throwing them out. This got us to use them and my Christmas presents were mostly done in October! I also made the Burnt Sugar almonds from this site and put them in pretty clear bags. Such yummy gifts!

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:44:20 +0000

I made the apple pie jam, the blueberry lemonade jam (both featured in this post), and a cabernet sauvignon jelly, dolled the jars up with Christmas fabric, ribbon, and cute little labels I made, put one of each in a gift basket, added some homemade fudge and candy to Christmas mugs, and sent a basket to each of my boyfriend’s family members! I know they’re going to love them!

By: Peggy O.

Peggy O. — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:05:54 +0000

I just made Ree’s cinnamon rolls for the first-time ever to give to families in our church this Christmas. They turned out great! They are delicious! I did a double recipe, so we had 14 pans to give (& hoped we’d have a few left for ourselves). I’ll make this recipe again & again. YUM!

By: Camie

Camie — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:57:26 +0000

These are great ideas! They look amazing! I love making treats to share with my family, can’t wait to try some of these.

By: KitchenTravels

KitchenTravels — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:03:02 +0000

Great ideas – in the post and in the comments! I won’t really have time to do many – if any – homemade gifts this year, but I still like reading about all the fun ideas.

Dawn (http://www.kitchentravels.com)

By: Leslie B @ One Day Before Yesterday

Leslie B @ One Day Before Yesterday — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:17:36 +0000

This post has really got me thinking! Although its very close to Christmas this year, next year I will be canning even more vegetables than I have in the past summers and so I plan to can up some vegetables, salsas, jams, etc, to give away to folks, especially my neighbors! What a great post!

By: The Newlywed Chefs

The Newlywed Chefs — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:32:56 +0000

We are giving everyone homemade vanilla extract this year! Recipe coming soon!

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 07:23:10 +0000

With so many sweets being given I decided to do salsa. I bought 2 cup plastic containers with screw top lids. Filled them with homemade salsa (Ree’s Restaurant Style Salsa, btw), tied some ribbon around with gift tags and voila!! Can’t wait to pass them out tomorrow!