I have a page in my red Moleskine planner (I can’t quite seem to give up the paper habit) where I jot down possible gift ideas for the people in my life as they occur to me. I’ve trained myself to think about birthday and holiday gifts well in advance because giving good gift does not come naturally to me. While I love a thoughtful, well-wrapped gift as the next girl, I’ve never been able to organize myself well when it comes to charming cards and lovely packaging. So I work extra hard to select good presents, knowing that I won’t be able to hold a candle to my craftier kin.
When I know the gift I’m giving needs to be particularly impressive (and the budget allows) I sometimes turn to the professionals. One such pro that I discovered recently (and mentioned in this post last month) is Eat Boutique. Designed and curated by Maggie Battista, Eat Boutique boxes include small batch, artisanally crafted candies, cookies, preserves and more. The boxes change seasonally and make gorgeous gifts for the food lovers in your life.
I’m extra excited to tell you guys about this season’s box because Maggie has offered up one for a giveaway. That’s right, one Food in Jars reader will be the winner of a box jam-packed with sea salt rosemary shortbread, handmade chocolate bonbons and rochers, blood orange jam, local honey cake, chocolate-covered honeycomb candy and honey orange ricotta caramels. Sounds pretty tasty, doesn’t it!
This giveaway will be open until Wednesday, March 30 at 11:59 pm. To enter, leave a comment describing your favorite edible gift. One entry per person please. The winner will be able to choose to either receive the box or have it sent to a friend (in the U.S. or Canada only). Good luck!
(If you can’t bear to take your chances with the giveaway, you can also purchase one of these fab boxes straight from Maggie by clicking here. Each box costs $65 and includes a hand written note.)
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Oh, that looks good. How very nice of her.
I love to give a jar of honey from our bees! Honey always makes people smile.
I love chocolate!!!
Jars of pickled jalapenos, accompanied by good quality tortilla chips. Everyone loves a do-it-yourself nacho kit!
Chocolate covered, home-dried, brandy soaked cherries!
Salad dressings! Special salad dressings. I have a special recipe that we made up one year that everyone loves. It can be presented in pretty jars or recycled or new. And, for me, it’s always salad season.
To give: heirloom recipe cookies. To receive: anything handmade but I am partial to sweets.
Love giving homemade pasta with a jar of homemade tomato sauce. This is especially popular at Christmas, when fresh tomato season is a distant memory.
To give: jam and cashew brittle, caramels; To receive: toffee!
I had a highschool friend give me a big box of homemade candy one year- buckeys, brittles, chocolate covered cherries. It was divine!
Shortbread cookies – they are a great cookie that I never think of buying but always enjoy eating.
My favorite is biscotti. The flavor profile is so unlimited. Sweet, savory, with or without a flavored coating.
I love the give themed edible gifts depending on the season, like homemade hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows at Christmas.
My favorite recent was some Pralines from Myrtle Beach
I love anything that someone takes the time to make for me….as an avid (obsessive) canner I know how much work goes into anything made in the kitchen…it’s always a gift from the heart!
In my transition to an almost entirely local and organic food lifestyle, I have discovered the beauty of giving seasonal fruits and vegetables as gifts. Okay, sometimes I put them into a cake or a bread. Sometimes I give them in the form of preserves. But one of my favorite ways to present, say, a bushel of beautiful apples from a nearby orchard, is simply as they are. Giving food to loved ones has raised the value of the gift-giving experience for me.
Anything that comes in the mail and is edible is especially loved! Granola was a recent treat from a friend, and it was so nice to think of her every day at breakfast.
I love to give biscotti!
I always appreciate a scone or two.
My fav would be a gift basket-type gift like this one! I love lots of little things!!
my favorite edible gift are salted caramels!
At Christmas I love to bake Cream Cheese Braids which my friends always love to receive! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love giving unusual homemade jams, and giving unusual food to my dad, who appreciates anything weird but especially fruit. I can’t really pick a favorite to receive, but I always love chocolate, tea, and fruit.
My favorite: my mama-in-law’s black raspberry syrup OR my grandma’s canned peaches. YUM-0
Usually my food gifts end up being things I’ve picked up on travels to faraway places, although I have gone on homemade lemon curd–giving sprees as well.
I love chocolate. And Guinness. And chocolate with Guinness.
What a great giveaway. THis would indeed make a great food gift.
yum yum!! chocolate truffles always get me – but raspberry jam or a really good chutney are great too.
Boutique Box…
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