Gifts, Gifts and more Gifts

How about some easy snacks for gift giving or some reasonable and affordable kitchen friendly items or for the person who loves plants here are several selections.

 Click on the highlighted link for a few as well as several other ideas in the post.

Hoping to help with your gift selections.

A great hostess gift that will be appreciated.

Hostess Gift  

Dollar store container filled with goodies.  Pennies to make.

Aprons for the kitchen king or queen

Cool Gifts  

A plant or herb they would enjoy.  Christmas Cactus or a pothos plant are beautiful and easy to maintain.  The cactus produces flowers this time of year the the Pothos plant comes in a variety of variagted or green leaves which is great for a low light areas.

Christmas Cactus

Pothos

 

Jade Plant

A colorful plant container(Rosemary plants) are available this time of year.  They are easily kept indoors for all year round herb use. This is my Rosemary that I took outside in summer after spending the winter inside my home.

Why not make a basket with some kitchen or garden tools?  I love mine!  Go to your local garden center or discount department stores and buy a inexpensive basket or garden container and fill with useful garden tools and supplies.  There are so many to choose from and as a person who loves anything garden friendly I would love anything from there.  Tools, plant spikes, gloves, etc.  They'll love it to name a few!



 For the baker or cook a new cookbook would be appreciated.

 
One more gift idea is a Gift card to their favorite grocery store.  Who wouldn't like that?  Practical and definitely would be appreciated.

I'm hoping some of these gift suggestions have been helpful and they won't break your gift budget either.

Ho ho ho and Merry Christmas to all! xo

Nana's Sesame Seed Cookies

One of my favorite cookies my Nana used to make were Sesame Seed.  A firm cookie that was rolled in sesame seeds and baked until toasted. It seems like yesterday that I was eating these cookies and I never could get my fill of them.  Not too sweet just right!  In other words..........  Yummy!

This is straight from my Cookbook so I'm sharing a family recipe because that's what this blog is about.  Friends sharing recipes from generation to generation and hopefully more generations in the future.

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My first Give-away!

 Last Chance to enter for my first Give away


I'm having my first give-away! It's A Tuttorosso Gift Pack which includes 1- 28 oz. can of crushed with basil tomatoes, 1-28 oz. can peeled plum tomatoes, 1-28 oz. can tomato sauce and 1-6oz. can tomato paste, plus a Tuttorosso apron, a Tuttorosso wooden spoon and some great recipes too. Starting tomorrow November 19th they are having a three week promotion and I'm having a giveaway On December 12th. Yay!

You can register to win special prices on their facebook page too!  They will be giving away 1,000 aprons per week, a daily drawing of 1 heirloom wooden spoon, and a grand prize of a Martha Stewart Cookware set. Just go to http;//www.facebook.com/tuttorossotomato to enter.

I have been using Tuttorosso products for years and love them.  All my special red sauce meals are made using Tuttorosso products. I am excited that they contacted me and said along with sending me those items one lucky person who I choose would receive the same. It starts tomorrow so as of this moment the only idea I can come up with is that you email me your name and address and I'll keep track of the entries that way and when it comes to the time I will use Random.org and have them pick a name randomly. My email address is mjkitchenjoy@gmail.com.   Enter as many times as you like I'll keep them and when the promotion is over I'll then have Random.org choose the winner and notify them as to who to send the products to.


Are you ready for some fun?

First published 11/19/14