If you’ve been reading this site for any length of time, you’re probably already familiar with Eat Boutique. It’s a wonderful little company based out of the Boston area that carefully sorts through the ever-growing world of artisanal foods and culls the very best ones for inclusion in their gift boxes.
In the past, they’ve done just one box per season, but for the upcoming holidays, they’ve created seven different themed boxes, so that you can find the right thing for the many different people on your gift list.
My current favorite is (there will be no surprise here) the Jam Gift Box. It features four different preserves from some of the country’s best jam makers (the Blenheim Apricot Jam from We Love Jam is one of the delicious jams I’ve ever tasted).
Happily, the Eat Boutique crew have offered up one of these Jam Gift Boxes to give away to a Food in Jars reader. If you want a chance at it, here’s what to do…
- To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post and share a homemade gift you’re giving to a friend or family member this season.
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm eastern time on Saturday, December 3, 2011. Winner will be chosen at random (using random.org) and will be posted to the blog on Sunday, December 4, 2011.
- Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only (apologies to my more far-flung readers).
- One entry/comment per person, please.
Disclosure: Eat Boutique has provided the gift box I’m giving away. I didn’t receive anyAs always, my opinions are still all my own. It’s a good product and I’m happy to be able to share it with you guys.
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SUPER CUTENESS!!!!
That would be an awesome gift to give! I am making dried apple and cinnamon instant oatmeal and homemade waffle mixes to give this year…..sooo good!
I am making homemade popcorn balls that will be bursting with candies and nuts.
I’m making baking mixes for my gluten free friends!
I’m smoking Maldon sea salt and packaging it in little jars — in addition to all the canning I’m giving away
I’ll be giving out some of my canned goods…. but I only share the huckleberry jam with my grandma’s.
This year I’m giving out Peach Ginger Jam and Peach Salsa I made over the summer using Palisade Peaches from the western slope of Colorado. I never knew Colorado had such fabulous peaches until I moved out here 7 years ago. It’s one of our best secrets!
I’m giving the girls in my book club some plum jam that I canned earlier this year. This will be the first time I am giving a homemade edible gift to someone!
My in-laws love the pickles I canned this summer, so I will be bringing them another jar.
We’re still giving out the pickles we did this summer because we canned so many of them!
Actually, I just gave out a bunch of lemon curd from a recipe of yours (we tried out a few last winter, when our 1/3rd of a lemon tree that hangs over from our neighbors yard was practically pelting us with them, and we liked it the best, even though the number of egg whites we’re left with is staggering). For Christmas, I’m planning to give out baked goods although I’ve not yet planned out which ones.
I’ve made spiced pear chutney and am planning to make Christmas cookies and spiced pecans!
I am giving strawberry jam and hand made notecards to my kids teachers.
I am gifting my mom with some homemade strawberry jam I made myself.
We’re making my parents into grandparents in the next couple of weeks.
Okay, so that has to be my favorite comment so far!
I’m giving bath salts and knitted washcloths.
I adore your blog and it’s given me lot’s of great insight to jams/jellies. For Thanksgiving I traveled from Rhode Island to Florida was 6 pints of jam to give as gifts! Needless to say my luggage was inspected:-) I gave my family Cranberry Apple Jam and Vanilla Pear Jam. They went wonderfully with Thanksgiving dinner.
I’m brewing Chai tea concentrate and giving it in mason jars, wrapped with twine and a cinnamon stick! Can’t wait!
Looks amazing!
Since this was my first summer of canning, I’m gifting a spiced peach jam as well as the cranberry/pear compote you had posted the recipe for earlier this fall. Both are delicious
so many homemade gifts! One is apple butter made with spiced hard cider. We usually give boxes of homemade gifts to our friends each year with music we’ve loved from the year, an ornament we made, cookies and cakes, a canned item (pie in a jar for many a year and this year… apple butter!), and a paper white bulb about to bloom.
I am giving dilly beans to family and friends- made over 2 dozen quarts this year.
Irish Cream Liqueur….
I love artisan jams!!!
I gifted some homemade membrillo with cheese and wine. I’ve also done some home brewed beer for gifts. I have a few other crafts in the works, but I wouldn’t want to ruin any surprises
I’m bringing an array of preserves home with me for the holidays to share with the family. Since we live half the country away, it’s the only time I get to share. Among the items most requested are homebrewed cider and mead.
I am giving homemade cheesecakes at Christmas this year, easy to make, people love them.
I love the apricot jam from We Love Jam! And I love their labeling!
This year, I am giving lots of homemade gifts including honey conditioner, lip balm, sugar foot scrub, granola, vanilla extract, and different baking mixes! So much more fun (and cheaper too!)
mmm…. jam. i’m making a variety of homemade liqueurs: blackberry just for my niece’s fiancé, cranberry for the girls (comes with its own recipe for cosmos), and limoncello for the rest of the family.
I’m making infused vodka in blueberry-vanilla, and cranberry flavors. Also contemplating blood orange-cello!
Mmm… Jam.
those jams are beautiful and i bet incredibly delicious. on the list for homemade gifts is cranberry marmalade (which I made from your amazing recipe!) as well as hand-knit scarves (I haven’t knit in years and am excited to get back to it). happy holidays!!!
Very nice. I’m giving away homemade vanilla extract and vanilla sugar as well as Fig, Honeydew Ginger, Triple Berry and Strawberry Vanilla (thanks for the recipe) jam and Quince jelly and chocolate bark and various assorted cookies for various assorted co workers, friends, caregivers, teachers, etc…….
I’m giving my step siblings homemade hot chocolate mixes
My sister and I donated 4 basket stuffed full of canned and dried items we put up this summer to a ‘Basket Bash’ fundraiser for HOTR. We had pretty good gardens this year and a LOT of fun trying new things! I’m also sharing those things with friends and family along with baked goods.
Too cute! I’m giving away caramel apple, concord grape and plout jams this year.
We love jam at our house, I love canning it also.
I bake friendship breads& share them with a farmer friend who we garden with. I also give them as Christmas gifts to Family & friends & make extra to share at work with anyone who comes threw the door.
I have baskets of three jams for my friends that appreciate that appreciate a little heat- chipotle apple butter, habanero peach jam and sweet pickled jalapeños
I’m knitting a hat for my husband for the holidays. He also loves jam, so I would love to win this giveaway.
I have made some Apricot /Pineapple sage jam, canned coleslaw, corn relish, apple butter, hot chocolate, and teas all to be paired with cookies,fudges and tea breads.
I’ll be gifting some pickled peppers and sauerkraut.
This year is concord grape jelly, vanilla peach preserves and apricot lime jam all made with Ohio fruit.
I plan to make sweet and salty spiced mixed nuts for gifts. They are so good and always a hit!
Yummmm! I have made a variety of jams and jellies that I will be gifting this year! Also on my list to make before Christmas as a gift is mustard…wish me luck!
I am going to share homemade cookie platters, (hopefully) homemade jammies, and the home canned goods I worked on all Spring/Summer/Fall! I love sharing my homemade things
very fun! i’ll be giving away jams as usual but this year for my girlfriend i’m writting a childrens book called “pork-roll, cheese and ginger ale” as a spin off her favorite book as a child, “cheese, peas and chocolate pudding”. She literally lives off of pork roll cheese and gingerale. thanks for letting me share.
is she from Jersey?
I knit. This year, two pairs of socks and a set of one-fingered gloves for my dad.
i plan on making homemade marshmallows and cocoa mix for gifts this season
Well, if I can actually get it all done in time I’m giving several sewn items (bathrobes and bags), cookies, lots of canned goodies, and caramels.
This year we are giving homemade gifts almost exclusively. I canned jams and chutneys, conjured vodka infusions and will be whipping up chocolate truffles and batches of granola. My daughter (5 1/2) the coloring gift bags for her teachers. I hope that this becomes a family tradition – it has been lots of fun and I already have a todo list for next year! Can you say Rumtopf!
I am giving cranberry sauce, pear/apricot jam, raspberry dessert sauce, carrot cake jam, and plum jam to my colleagues.
I’m knitting hot water bottle covers for my nieces and nephews who’ve recently moved to London and whose bedrooms are quite drafty. And I may be giving some of my abundant jams away as well. Love giving homemade gifts!
What a great giveaway! I’m planning to give some homemade vanilla extract as a gift this Christmas. Hopefully it turns out well.
Making mini pies to give away!
Homemade pear butter. My first attempt at canning something other than pickles.
I’m giving a homemade knit scarf to my niece that I’ve been working on this season.
I’m making peppermint pigs that are to be broken and eaten after dinner on Christmas to bring good luck for the next year:@)
I put together gift baskets with homemade jams, jellies & baked goods. My most requested is my peach salsa & jalapeno pepper jelly.
I did breakfast baskets with homemade no sugar added jam and a pancake mix I make and some coffee and tea and mugs…
Breakfast boxes which will include some of my jams & marmalades from this year, as well as infused syrups. Also Italian baskets with homemade pasta sauce and garlic infused olive oil. The downside? All year my friends return the empty jars needing re-fills! (not really a downside tho)
I will be giving home made apple butter, strawberry jam, and apple pie filling.
I’ll be sewing for some of my kiddlets. They don’t read this so I can say – “flannel shirts”!
I will be making cinnamon crunch pecans and wrapping them up in little bags for friends.
My parents and sister are getting my homemade jam & pickles, as well as my hand knit lovelies!
I love to make hand knitted scarves and blankets to give as gifts
My family is British so I make fruit cake every year. I make my own candied citrus peels and make the cakes with it in October. I brush them with brandy every 2 weeks and then give them to family and friends at Christmas.
Yay jam!
I will probably make preserved lemons for my mother so she doesn’t have to spend an arm and a leg on those imported jars.
I am giving homemade granola!
I will be giving the Black Forest cherry-chocolate preserve. Wonderful on ice cream, cake or straight from the jar!
My canned goods (mostly different jams) aren’t gifts per se, as I hand them out whenever I see my family (twice a year or so). But I do make some knitted gifts for the holidays!
This year, I am giving homemade leaf mobiles as gifts. A couple of weeks ago, I dipped lots of pressed-and-dried fall leaves in melted beeswax, and now I just need to tie them in interesting-yet-balanced arrangements on twigs.
This year I have a vat of homemade bourbon Madagascar vanilla extract brewing. So excited!
I’ve already given away some bread and butter pickles, and I hope to make some cookies and candies to give as gifts as well!
These look great! I’m giving away vanilla plum jam and classic peach butter this year.
I will be giving pear vanilla jam and pear cardamom jam to several relatives and friends. Also 5 spice pickled cherries, and tomato-ginger jam!
Gift giving has never been more exciting for me than this year of 2011. This is surprising in light of the fact that my husband was laid off from his work in retail building materials sales in May, 2011. The resulting drastic drop in income caused my mind to flip ‘ON’ the ‘We can do this’ mentality. ‘Food in Jars’ has been a primary source of inspiration through out this food preserving venture and the Food in Jars ‘Sunday guest links’ have inspired me even more. I determined to preserve every bit of food we could grow and harvest from whomever and where ever. Our garden produced tomatoes like mad and our neighbors gave us liberty to harvest all the fruit from their very old fruit trees: pears, figs, apples and damson plums! We have shelves of beautifully canned foods to show for our summer and fall of labor and our freezer is full as well. Beauties like damson plum jam, mango preserves, tomato jam, tomato preserves, cultured tomato ketchup, muscadine jam, cultured and canned salsas, pear relish , pear preserves and our final big canning from the garden ……..’Golden Chow-Chow’. Due to a heart full of gratitude and very full pantry shelves we have already begun gifting friends, neighbors and family with the bounty and look forward to giving the filled, jewel tone jars of goodness as Christmas gifts. My favorite new recipe is ‘biscuit jammers’! Delicious way to enjoy summer’s fruity flavors all winter long. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
I’ll be giving away pickled pears!
I am making nougat, jam, and marmalade for my favorite family members!
I’m making several things, my favorite of which are apple cider jelly and brownies in a jar (as in brownies baked in a jar and canned – if sealed properly, they last up to a year, but they’ve never made it past the end of January
).
I’m making tote bags from some batik cloth I received as a gift from China. I’m giving one tote bag to the person who gave me the cloth, and I’m giving the other tote bag to my best friend. If I have time, I’m also going to make a batch of pickled orange slices to throw into some wine and cheese baskets for office mates, bosses, etc.
Applesauce
I love apricots! This box sounds wonderful. I’ve given lots of things I’ve made: jam, bread, cookies, candy, cordials, mixes- always something new to try and to give!
I just made tangerine marmalade last wknd from our tree. It was my first try at preserving anything and it turned out wonderful! I can’t wait to make cute labels and ship to friends and family in colder climates.
I’m giving homemade peach BBQ sauce! A little bit of summer in the middle of winter.
Actually, all of my gifts this year are hand-made! I started knitting in October for the holidays and I’ve only got 2 more left to knit! (That’ll make 13 knitted gifts, total! Whew!)
I just finished knitting a sweater for my husband. I can’t wait for him to wear it!
I am whipping up an assortment of organic spa treatments and putting them in some adorable jars I found secondhand. My 3 year old and I will also be making ornaments to add to the gift packet.
Sounds delish!
I am making my homemade cocoa mix and homemade marshmallows. I’ve been giving the same thing to my friends and co-workers for about 6 years. I’d hear about it if I did something different!
I am giving some canned gifts this year, but mostly people will be getting things I am going to sew
The color of the blueberry/cinnamon one in your photo is mesmerizing.
Just last weekend, I took a flat of mixed 4oz jars from this summer’s canning so that all of my relatives would have something to take home with them from me for Thanksgiving.
I’ll be making homemade marshmallow fluff and hot chocolate mixes!
I usually try to make cookies (molasses) to give away. Thanks!
Well, I love to make homemade bread and while it won’t be a gift I will bring it to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals. It’s my contribution to the holiday meals.
I’d like to say I’m giving jam to everyone this year, but I think I’ll hold out until I’m a little more confident in my skills! My nieces are getting their Squinkies and books (Every Christmas they get one. Yes, I’m that aunt!) in drawstring backpacks I am making.
Ooooooh I would LOVE to win this!! I am making 8 oz. bottles of homemade vanilla extract to give to friends this year. I found a great deal online for bulk vanilla beans from Vanilla Products USA, and I’m excited to do this! It takes about 8 weeks or so to brew it, and I’m obviously starting late, so I’m planning to put a “don’t use until ————” sticker/tag on the bottle so they know to let it continue brewing for a few weeks
Body scrubs, monkey bread & cookies, and one or two other edible gifts will be making the circuit too! Of course, there will be jams too.
I am giving away bottles of homemade raspberry wine, mostly Because my family helped me pick the raspberries in the first place.
I made homemade vanilla and lemoncello for gifts as well as several kinds of jam. This box looks great.
What a yummy treat! Hope I win it!
This holiday I am gifting homemade strawberry fig preserves as well as fig preserves. I will be gifting them to my mother’s family and I know it will remind them all of our beloved Helen ,who use to make both preserves for all of us back in the day.
Flavored vinegars, vanilla extract and a couple of fall chutneys in a nice, reusable basket!
My first batch ever of pickles, blueberry jam, and corn relish plus some nut mix, homemade granola, strawberry jellies treats, lemon crunchies, and your pickled cranberries
I am giving handmade soaps as presents. I love these little jam jars… and I’ve heard lots of good things about Blue Chair jam!
Happy Holidays!
Margaret
I’m planning to make homemade mustard this year to give as gifts. I’ll have to get on it pretty soon so that it can mellow out or whatever it needs to do to taste good! I just ordered the supplies on amazon and hopefully will have time this weekend to tackle that project. If I fail, I’ll go with some homemade granola
I have been making apples pies with my canned filling for my family so far, and I have various relatives pegged for my peach blackberry jam.
For Christmas this year I am giving dried herbs from my garden.
I’m going to roast some pumpkin seeds & give to coworkers!
Why I’m giving away jam of course! Would love to try these varieties!
These look lovely. I’m definitely going to check out the website for this year’s family Yankee swap (theme is “consumables”). I’ll be gifting many jars of apple butter this year. I picked 76 lbs of free apples at the end of the season, and have slowly been turning them into butter, jam, sauce, etc.
I am sharing around bottles of homemade orange wine. The oranges were from my sister’s tree and the wine turned out lovely – light, fruity, and a pale apricot color.
I am gifting loads of green tomato ginger preserves this year. It is soooo yummy. May have to gift some to myself, too!
My husband and I are making hand salve from our bees’ wax and honey with some essential oils, starting off with lemon balm from our garden. It’s so luscious!
giving away jam, and some cookies. Made some lovely grape jam with cinnamon and star anise this summer, I think people will enjoy it.
Yay, Meyer lemons are here! Lemon curd, here I come!
I’m making lemon sugar, lime salt and vanilla for my mother in law this year.
Jams and salsa!
We are making heart shaped hand warmers and also bath bombs. Oh, and homemade bread!!!
herb vinegars, infused vodkas, vanilla extract
tomato jam and pear butter
I’ll probably share some Christmas cookies around.
That looks great! I’m making homemade mustard this year.
The neighbors always get homemade goodies. This year it is our family caramel corn!
Heather
I’m giving away lots of different flavors of homemade peach jam and some of those cranberries you just posted about!
I’m making little 2 colored felt birds for family and friends this year since we have had so much fun with the 2 I received from a friend.
I made a jewelry box for my niece.
A crocheted afghan
What an awesome giveaway! I plan on knitting for a few family members and also giving out some homemade coconut granola.
I just made my first jelly: a cranberry-jalapeno jelly, and it came out delicious! I’ll be giving that out
I am making infused vodka!!
I plan on giving homemade banana bread to my friends! Homemade is always best!
Gingerbread men
I’m making vanilla extract to give away this year!
I am giving homemade jams and candied nuts.
Oh yum! I’m knitting sweaters for each of my three kids, and making a doll for my youngest. And making cloth snack bags for all three plus two nephews!
My girls and I are going to make some Christmas cards for people, some Photo gifts, and hopefully some framed button art. We will likely find some more fun ideas here and there, but we better get moving!
I’m giving homemade candy and biscotti…and some dog treats for the furry family!
I have a cranberry liqueur that is stewing right now, to be ready in another week or two. Plan to bring it to a holiday party as a hostess gift.
I had fun with quinces this year … giving quince paste (membrillo) and some quince-cranberry sauce from Food in Jars (thanks!).
With our drought this summer, I didn’t can enough to give preserves as gifts, but I’ve finished the baby sweater for the new baby, am sixty rows from finishing the socks for his mom, and probably three hours from finishing a ridiculously complicated scarf for my mom.
I made and canned apple butter for many of my relatives in my extended family. These look delicious!
I’m planning on giving everyone some fruit butter to have on latkes for a ‘sweet Chanukah’. : )
i’m thinking homemade caramel marshmallows, like cow tails but more mess in my kitchen =)
I am making home made toffee with dark chocolate and sea salt. It is from an old sunset magazine.
I’m giving cured and smoked bacon, vanilla and vanilla sugar, and blueberry jam!
These look interesting! I’d love to try them!
I make WAY more jam than I can consume, so everyone is getting two or three jars this year. I made a new flavor for the Holidays – Pomegranate and Quince. I’m thinking of calling it Pomegranate Paradise because I used the proportions from Paradise Jelly. I would so love to try the goodies in these gift boxes!
I’m making vanilla extract for all the women on my list !
Yum. Almost everything we give to family is homemade, actually – breads, cookies, treats, jams, pickles. Hey, up there at 132 – you’re giving away bacon??!! Awesome!!
Hello!!
I would love some fresh new jams! I am making for my friends some Mistletoe mix, a variety of mixed nuts (raw of course! ) organic cranberries, and white and dark chocolate chips, in a big mason jar with fun Christmas-y fabric capped on and a nice ribbon tied on 
Gonna be so pretty with the bright shelled pistachios 
I’mk putting in as well. Hope you have ver ~~~Happy Holidays!~~~
Yum! I’m giving away gift baskets of jam, pickles, chicken eggs, and cranberry-pumpkin bread. Thanks for the giveaway!
I will be giving a way lots and lots of homemade cookies and cake in a jar. I am a new fan and just love your site. Hopefully next year I’ll be canning something to give away.
We’re making cookies for everyone.
I’m making home made clotted cream and lemon curd! What a wonderful giveaway. Thanks for such a wonderful site!
I’m giving strawberry jam and blackberry jam – to my MIL, my daughter’s teacher, swim coaches and anyone else that is in need of a thank you gift.
I am giving my friends scarves….crocheting helps me destress…but then I end up with piles of scarves (or blankets) and nothing to do with them.
Once I get over my nerves about canning….I will add it to the list.
meg
i’m making bean bags and hand-knit sweaters for my toddler twins, and a little mermaid doll for my niece!
I’m making some wool knit/felted slippers for the nieces (thanks Ravelry! for the inspiration) to match the ones I just finished to my daughter and hope to bottle some of the homemade vanilla I still have stored away for some pals. No canning this year, BUT we LOVE jam and would be so pleased to win the gievaway….thanks!
We enjoy making (and giving away) hot chocolate on a stick. But I think this year I’m going to give away bibs made out of finger towels because we have a lot of friends who’ve had babies in the past year.
Lindz
I’m going to make jammies and a Superman cape for my kid.
For most of my girlfriends this year, I’m planning to put soup ingredients (“Friendship Soup”) in a decorated quart jar with the recipe attached.
I give platters of homemade cookies to all of our family members.
When I was in college I started making homemade goody baskets because I couldn’t afford to buy gifts. While I was in college they were pretty simple but people loved them and really appreciated them. The year after I graduated from college I had a good job and didn’t make the goody baskets and gave gifts instead and was surprised to find out that my family members were secretly disappointed! LOL! Now that I’m more established in my career I still make homemade goody baskets but I go all out, including printing out personal wrappers for bark bars, individual wrappers for caramels and truffles, make boxes to add cookies, etc. I now spend two weeks straight making these baskets and make about 20 of them. It’s a wonderful feeling when all the baskets are complete and every year I vow that I will not go overboard *next year* and every year I still do! lol
These are so beautiful!
This year, I’m giving away homegrown & canned heirloom tomato sauce, pepper rings, and strawberry-vanilla jam, plus vanilla sugar, cardamom sugar, cinnamon sugar, and rosemary sea salt.
I’ll be giving away a couple jars of the plum anise jam you posted this summer!
Ooh great contest! I’m whipping up lots of knit and sewn gifts this year- fingerless mitts and pj sets! I’ll also be gifting my canned apple butter and pie filling!
I am making Christmas stockings and putting habanero jelly in them to send to my son and daughter in law in Japan!
I’m planning on making a ruffled tote for a special someone. I also hope I have time to make two camera straps.
I am giving my own jams, pickles, and chutneys, as well as toffee candy and spiced vanilla pecans. I love jam!
I uploaded my own photographs to a printing website and designed calendars with everyone’s birthday and anniversary dates noted. It was a lot of fun!
I also canned my cranberry sauce (I am allergic to corn so I can’t eat the canned stuff full of corn syrup) and made extra to give as hostess gifts for all the parties and open houses we’ll attend this holiday season.
I am painting a watercolour of the view of the bay from my son’s house, and am making mango chutney and biscotti for everyone else.
I am making homemade baked goods. Like brioche, stollen,challah, all kinds of cookies and candy’s!!!
I’m making cute little stuffed animals for all my nieces!
To my cousins I am giving some of my first-ever canned goods (I started canning this fall). Spiced plum jam, peach butter, peach jam, and salted caramel pear butter. And it wouldn’t be the holidays if I didn’t make and give away spiced maple sugar pecans.
Giving homemade mustards and Apple Pie Jam in small jars as gifts this year. About all I can afford in this economy this year, but I know they are liked and used.
I’m giving a trio of canned goodies to handful of family and friends: green tomato apple chutney, zucchini relish and apple cider butter.
Fantastic gift box! Thanks for the opportunity to win it. I am giving away homemade jams and also some handmade fabric baskets.
I have a half gallon of vanilla extract getting nice and vanilla-y in my pantry. I’m planning on bottling it and giving it to my baking friends and relatives.
I’m seriously considering making it an all lemon holiday. Preserved lemons, limoncello, and I guess I’ll have to come up with something for the kids.
Apple sauce made with local apples & cider, with raspberries added for color & zing.
Will be trying candied citrus peels this year to give away… lemon, lime, orange, and grapefruit mix.
I’m baking brownies to mail to friends and family!
I’m giving away spiced pear butter that I’m almost sad to part with because I can’t get enough of it myself. I’ve already eaten a pint of it since I made it.
vanilla extract made with vodka AND rum.
Yum! These look wonderful!
I’ll be making peppered pecans and loaves of apricot orange bread; lots of platters of fudge.
I love to give away a variety of things… besides the bajillion (ok, 200+) jars of jam I made, I am planning on making some sweet/spicy/savory mixed nuts and perhaps some shortbread. My hubby will be making stollen and sugar plums. I will be making fudge too, but only my dad gets that!
This year I made peach butter. I’ll be pairing the jars with homemade scones and tea for my friends!
Homemade caramels. I make them every year, and my mom used to make them too.
Mm, those look delicious!
I’ll be making Christmas cookies for people (haven’t picked this year’s recipes yet), and am working on a knitted scarf for my boyfriend.
this year i am putting in a varitey of jam/jelly jalpemo or watermellon (depending if the person likes spices or not) I would of put in pickles but my family have eatten them all everytime i make them. I am also putting in a jar of dinner in the jar for each person wether it is a breakfast blend or dinner i tought it would be special
Oooh! Just Yummy ~ I LIVE on tea, bread and jam! Which is why I am giving currant or crabapple jelly away as gifts to family this year (altho’ my wonderful MIL will be getting one of my few jars of tart cherry). I hope I win… I’ve got my spoon waiting!
Those look amazing!!!
I am giving jam to mothers and sisters and mustard to brothers and dads.
For gifts this year I made – what else – jam in jars. Also fruit syrups, fruit sauces and pickles. I bought some inexpensive, unfinished wooden trays at Michael’s, and filled each with a variety of home-canned goods. The jars all were labeled with hand-colored-on-kraft labels. They trays will get wrapped in cellophane before gifting.
Banana jam and corn cob jelly!
I’m giving baskets of pistachio brittle, jam, and candles this year!
No store bought gifts in our house this year! I am making everything from scratch. Pumpkin bread, garlic herb bread, 6 flavors of rock candy, peanut brittle, cake balls, jams and jellies, pretzels and homemade mustard, and of course Christmas cookies of many varieties.
i’m making up little spice jars – taco seasoning, apple pie, etc.
I’m making rosemary salt & a meat rub for a coworker!
I have a knitted scarf to give to a friend. I will probably make some candied nuts and baked goods, but I don’t think I’ll do much canning this time around.
i’m making vanilla extract for people inspired from reading your blog last holiday season.
I will be giving homemade blackberry jam to my son’s teacher. I also am knitting my fingers off for my nieces and nephews.
I hauled 12 jars of preserves over to Taiwan for the Thanksgiving holidays – cranberry-pear jam, apple-sumac jelly, and cran-apple butter!
I’m not sure if this counts, but having recently found myself with an abundance of time on my hands, I’m planning to make several days worth of holiday cookies/candy/snacks for my wife (a teacher) to take to work and share with co-workers.
I will be giving away Peach Crystallized Ginger Marmalade I made back in July with my home grown peaches. Crystallized my Ginger also! Can’t wait to make it again next year!
I’ve recently become swept up in sourdough mania and will be gifting loaves to my family at Christmas. I’ll also be mixing up some infused salts and homemade rubs for their food-themed gift baskets. Can’t wait!
Among this season’s handmade gifts: I cross-stitched a Bible verse for my in-laws and sewed/quilted fabric crayon keepers for my nieflings. There will probably be more handmade goodness, including the culinary kind, before all is said and done!
A knitted scarf.
I’m infusing vodka and baking all sorts of delicious little goodies to give away this year– we’re really trying hard to make or buy locally all presents we give this holiday season!
Thanks for another awesome giveaway! This would make a great gift this Christmas!
What an exciting giveaway! I’m giving away homemade ketchup and bbq sauce this year – trying to branch out from giving away the same jams I give away every year!
ill be gifting homemade tomato jam!
I’ll be giving away jars of candied jalapeños and peach jam!
I make gift baskets tailored to each person on my list. They are themed and can include baked sweet breads, canned jams, preserves and pickles and homemade candy.
My grandmother is getting 2 jars of citrus jam. My mom informed me that Gma’s nursing home lost a shawl I made for her last Christmas, so I’m working on a replacement but that doesn’t count as a gift again.
I’m making a variety of truffles, boxing up a variety of jams and sauces, and participating in a cookie exchange.
I’m a handmade bookmaker so I’m, as usual I suppose, giving my various friends and family handbound books personalized to their tastes and needs.
Our homemade jalapeno jam is a perennial favorite! It will be coupled with spiced green tomato jam this year. We also homebrewed chocolate cherry stout and made 30 bottles of Chilean Carmenere so it will be a very merry holiday!
How fun! This year I have plans to make some felt Christmas ornaments to gift to my three younger sisters. We’re all trying to start our own collections of Christmas decorations!
I’m making homemade limoncello to give away – I’m really excited about it!
That is so awesome! I’ll be giving a collection of jam, peach butter, and marmalade this year, as well as a precious bottle of homemade blackberry syrup for close family
I’m making jolly rancher vodka for my sister. I may have to keep one of the bottles for myself though.
I’m giving away the tomato jam that I made from the recipe on your blog. It’s amazing!
I think I’m going to make some cute little felt bird ornaments for my mom.
Pineapple, Peach and Berry Jam… all wit a kick of Habanaro! And maybe some crackers and goat cheese!
I’m doing home-made stuff this year for gifts. I’m making stuff like candied jalapenos, ginger jam, carrot-cake jam, pickled cranberries, exotic chocolate barks, and crackers/breadsticks. And, of course, honey from our bees!
going to make some steamed sticky rice with sweet potatos for some friends of mine before i leave the dorms for winter break
just cookies from me
I’m felting a bunch of red and green wool and making stockings for my little niece and nephew.
I am giving homemade hot cocoa mix and a quilt.
Strwberry-Rhubarb Butter, Rhubarb Chutney and (not cannedd, of course!) a lot of knitted things!
Dulche de leche (fridge safe only, sadly) in lovely Weck jars. Happy relatives abound!
Homemade Vanilla extract for all my bakin’ friends ! Who doesn’t need that in their kitchen at all times?
I’m giving an assortment of homemade jams to my closest friends and family – including Royal Blenheim Apricot, Olallieberry, Strawberry, Aprium, Blackberry, and Raspberry jams.
My family will be getting jellys and jams featuring my own beer jelly and maple roasted onion marmalade.
In addition to all of the canning we’ve done during the year, I’m getting together with some friends from work this weekend for a Preservation Party. We’re going to make Potted Cheddar, Praline Syrup, Candied Jalapenos, and Jalapeno Cranberry Sauce to add to our stash of homemade gifts for the holidays.
I’m making your Apple Cranberry jam for my coworkers!
Yum! I’m giving several pieces of jewelry I’ve made, and possibly some pickles and orange marmalade.
Mmmmm… I’ve always wanted to try one of the Blue Chair jams. Absolutely love that cookbook.
This year’s to-gift list includes jars of earl-grey scented peach preserves (from Bon Appetite) as well as hand-crocheted cowls, gloves and hats.
It’s nothing fancy, but I’ll be gifting my family with my famous white chocolate chip bread. They love it!
i’m making chainmail bracelets for the holidays…so fun!
Just finished a jam to give away for Christmas – It Was a Dark and Stormy Jam – pear with some sugar and molasses, lots o’ ginger, and a fair amount of The Krakken Rum. Mmmmm!! I was so very thrilled that there was a half-jar left at the end I can’t POSSIBLY give away…
Unfortunately, do to sad circumstances, we aren’t doing a lot of gifts this year. Still, Ill probably give jam or cookie platters to friends, and I have one friend that I have handknit socks half-done for.
I am giving…jam! It is already made, and we are getting ready to move, so I need simple. And all my neighbors rave about my jam, especially the strawberry rhubarb and the pear.
Ohh – love it! I’m making granola to send to a friend in exchange for some of her lovely art. It will be packaged – of course – in a quart jar.
I am making cranberry bread for some of my friends this Christmas and some spiced walnuts to othes.
It’s hard to single out what I’m giving out this year because I have four stacks of cases of jars with jam,marmalade, fruit butter, chutney, and pickles that are at least four feet tall. It’s been hard not to get excited over the great preserving recipes out there, so I have gone kind of wild this year. Then, there are the liqueurs. I’m bringing my Nocino, green walnut liqueur, to a food swap this weekend and then figuring out who in my life deserves the wonder that is Nocino.
Relatives and friends are asking when I will have my fudge and toffee.
I’m making chai spice tea concentrate. Yum.
I made limoncello in August from the huge quantity of lemons from my mother’s tree. I used Everclear and it was quite strong at first, but it has mellowed out nicely and will be perfect by Christmas.
I’m new to canning, so my yummier experiments from this summer and fall will be going all over the country to family and friends … especially Pear Vanilla and Strawberry Vanilla jam, Blueberry Ginger jam (thanks, Marisa!), and a savory beet relish from the Ball book. Winning the random contest would be a gift to me
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I loved the gluten-free mixes idea from one of the first posters, too … I’m still testing a gluten-free loaf for one of my friends, but I might take that one step further and pre-mix the grains … if it turns out like “real” bread!
I’m still hoping to make handmade lotion.
The jam looks amazing!
I love making homemade apple butter, granola, various brittles, spiced nuts–and all of these look better given in cute jars, of course!
I’m making my favorite holiday recipe, spiced walnuts to give as gifts. They have have cinnamon, allspice, etc. and taste heavenly.
Everyone I know will get home made canned jam from me this year, thanks in part to you and your blog!
I will be giving Zucchini pickles, Bread and Butter Pickles, and Peach Butter along with various needlework gifts.
I’ll be making cookies (or bread, I haven’t decided yet) for my classroom aides. I couldn’t do my job as well without them!
I am making homemade dark chocolate and marcona almond bark…
I’m going to be giving my family and friends peach pistachio jam and pinneapple red pepper chutney.
I’m giving sweet pickles to some friends and loaves of homemade bread to other friends.
These are very nice jams.
I love Food in Jars.. and food in jars too!
This year Im giving home made apple butter &single serve apple pies in a jar. The pies are in a a one cup wide mouth jar & the apple butter is in a one cup tall jelly jar so Im going to stack them and wrap with green tissue & ribbons, hopefully to look like a Christmas tree!
I have just started reading the eat boutique blog and lucky me I am from the boston area!
I’m making chocolate spoons this year. I know that they have been around for a while but I like them. My big idea is to wrap them up with a pound of coffee. Sounds easy.
I made jam for christmas but I ate it all. oops.
I like to give homemade salad dressing with homemade croutons. This is a nice change from all the sweets.
I’m giving apple sauce and apple butter for the first time!! I have some vanilla extract setting for just after the holidays too.
Super Cute! I’m making Tea Cakes as gifts this holiday!
This year I am giving jars of black and blue jam and apple pie jam as gifts. My sister-in-law is also getting sweet pickle chip because those are her favorite.
Homemade Irish Cream and homemade celery salt. How do you make handmade hand lotion? (Anne’s comment above)
I’m gifting soup in a jar gifts this holiday season.
My great grandmother’s peach conserve recipe card has recently surfaced after nearly 25 years! I used peaches from the orchards of palisade, colorado to make a large batch as this year’s presents.
I’m trying your vanilla extract idea for a gift for my friends that like to bake. Oh yeah, and one for me too
That’s how I discovered your blog!
key lime jelly for grilling and using as a meat accompaniment
As usual for the holidays, my favorite and most requested canned product is my habanero pepper jelly. I use little hexagon shaped jars which makes it look extra special. Throw in a box of crackers and a block of cream cheese and they are ready to entertain,
I’m giving homemade vanilla extract and vanilla sugar.
I’m giving away some of the Pear Vanilla Jam (your recipe) but making sure to keep plenty for myself!!! Also giving away some pomegranate-infused vodka!
I am giving away salsa verde made with my home grown tomatillos and peach preserves.
I’ll be giving away: canned pears, dill pickles and hot pickled peppers.
My husband’s family loves my Hot Peppers in oil so I give away dozens of jars each Christmas. My family can’t handle the heat so I give them Jams and Jellies.
How cute! I will be giving a few jars of jam this season, including Bluberry Lime jam, Vanilla Pear and Blackberry Lemon with Thyme.
I made apple butter this week that may be the single most delicious thing I’ve ever made! Other stuff includes concord-verbena shrub syrup, and concord-walnut conserve. If anyone wants any of my funky shredded root kimchi they can have that too.
A duo of my adventures as a first-time canner and gardener. An 8oz jam ( strawberry, blackberry, peach, pear, blueberry etc.) and a small loaf of zucchini bread (grew it myself). Also for the Chili-heads in my family a basket of hot sauces, pastes, hot ketchup and a loaf of Mexican Cornbread.
I am making lots of cookies and peanut clusters, rum and burbon balls to share with neighbors and friends.
I just discovered your blog and I am LOVING it! Thank you for all of the great ideas! I have given my mom jars of Apple Jelly and Cranberry Ketchup to use for office gifts and I am gifting a variety of jams and some mixes in a jar. However, I’m getting some great ideas from the comments so that may change! Thank you for the opportunity! -asg
Just two day ago, I made 6 half pints of Pickled Cranberries and I will be giving some of them away for Christmas!
My husband made home made sriracha that he will be giving to his guy friends, and I made raspberry lemon balm jelly and spiced peaches that I will be giving away. Also, my neighbors get home made marshmallows (cut to the size of a coffee cup) with home made spicy cocoa.
Oh yeah…apricot!
I am trying out simple soap making so that will be the homemade gift this year.
I made some jelly, pickles and jams to give as presents this year.
Wow-lots of great ideas here! I will give pomegranate jelly, grapefruit-pomegranate marmalade and chocolate sea salt caramels. No limoncello this year – I’m tired of making it.
I am giving vanilla extract for Christmas presents this year…I have two quart jars filled with vodka and vanilla beans. *patiently* waiting for the extraction to happen
Ooh! Jam! I’ll be giving away homemade s’more “kits” for the babies–homemade marshmallows and grahams with a Hershey bar. Delish!
I am giving away my award winning (blue ribbon at the VA state fair!) catsup, my spicy Guinness mustard, and my spicy/sweet relish to my family. I am also giving away scone mix and homemade jams to all of the kids’ teachers.
Sewing up a rag doll and knitting wool socks. Fingers crossed!
I’m giving jars of the delicious pear-vanilla jam (that I learned about from this site!) to friends this year
This year I’m trying something different (for me), but traditional…fruitcake. May also do some peanut brittle and peppermint bark.
hand knit socks
I will be making 3 kinds of biscotti and gifting tomatoe jam, bacon jam , black cherry butter and spiced damson plum jam (your recipes) with that!
barbara
I am planning to give ‘French’ meat pies and mincemeat pies to my family and very special friends. The mincemeat was made during our crazy Halloween snowstorm in the Northeast – simmered over the woodstove. I also have many a jam/jelly and pickled peppers and cukes I will also gift.
This year, my homemade gift to my friends is inviting them and their little ones over for a Christmas cookie party. I also will have boxes of homemade fleur de sel caramels for them to take home!
Thanks for the giveaway! This year I made my own membrillo out of quinces from my parents’ neighbors, and will be giving it for the holidays to cheese-crazy family and friends.
Very spicy vodka ( I think I went overboard on the habaneros) and home canned tomato juice!
My family is receiving jars of homemade raspberry chocolate sauce this year, except for the jars I’m keeping for myself. Yum!
I make fruit cake for my son and mother. I make Christmas Stollen for friends. I will be giving preserves along with reclaimed slate roof tiles changed into cheese trays.
Handmade ornaments!
This year I will be giving pancake syrups and pancake mix. After juicing fruits for jelly there always seemed to be extra juice so I turned it into syrup which is easy to do in small amounts. Also, will be giving beef stock, jams and jelly some of which were inspired by this blog.
I am making homemade granola, raw trailmix, and chocolate candy…maybe some buckeyes! This jam looks beautiful, I LOVE the jars!
I am giving Tomato Jam (recipe from this site! it is so good) as gifts to a lot of friends, pumpkin pie for my grandfather, and apple pies for both my fathers-in-law.
I have plenty of jams and pickles to give away. I am also planning to make truffles and chocolate covered pretzel rods. Hopefully, I get around to making homemade marshmallows.
I’m giving away bloody mary mix and peppercorn infused vodka.
I’m making limoncello and giving it to all my family and friends in little bottles!
I am giving away Christmas cookies, chocolate covered caramels and I made 3 quilts to give to family members.
Thank you
i made homemade lemoncello for close friends. so far, everyone loves it.
it took a year’s worth of planning and completely worth it.
I make 6 varieties of biscotti every Christmas to give to friends. I would love the gift basket.
I will be making little calendars to give with my seedless blackberry jam…
Thanks for an opportunity to WIN!! YUM!
Melissa from Naches, WA
I’ve made jars of duck confit to give out!
I plan to give my parents a huge platter of homemade cookies. We have a family cookbook of all our favorite holiday cookies, so I hope to make the old standards and try out some new treats as well.
Homemade salsa and cookies.
i will be making preserved lemons for the holidays. i am shopping eat boutique right now.
Homemade Vanilla extract!
I will be giving away jars of homemade Peppermint Bark this year. I did it last year and it was a HUGE hit! I’ve already had people ask if I’ll be giving it again.
Yummy! We made the kids handprints in some clay for grandparents.
I want! They all sound amazing. Thanks for the giveaway!
homemade carmel corn and salt/sugar bath scrubs
I’ve been canning all summer and fall and am looking forward to passing along some peach ginger jam, pickled peppers, pickled beets and salsa to family and friends.
I am gifting a variety of canned goods including jams, chutney, salsas and pickles.
Reading throught the majority of comments was a gift in itself! It gave me soooo many more ideas of things to make, this year or next for giving away. We’ve made all of our gifts for Christmas starting about 5 years ago. This year I made Chambord (raspberry infused vodka) and spiced-honeyed orange slices-wow, are those ever good!
I just bought a whole bunch of meyer lemons yesterday to make marmalade for gifts.
I’m not sure about some things I’ve made(like do I really want to give away my one jar of homemade peach butter), but I am definitely going to give homemade chocolate bark to all my extended family.
I am doing an almost entirely handmade Christmas this year, with the exception being a big new TV as a gift to my fiance! On the homemade list I’ve got: a dress for my sister, etched glasses and infused olive oil for the Dads in my life, jewelry for my mom, eye masks, lavender sachets and lots of peppermint bark!
I am making my home-made “HOT” pepper jelly in gift baskets this year!
I am giving pepper jelly and cream cheese as neighbor gifts this year.
We are in the midst of creating the 50+ hand-pulled, hand-carved linoleum prints we gift to our friends and family each year; it’s a labor of love!
This is the fourth year of our “turtle” series, a reference to our home on Mackinac.
I’m making brownies and cookies to mail to some of my favorite people.
I made watercolour Christmas gift tags this year and then went crazy and did some art cards.
If I win I will give this amazing prize to my son and daughter-in-love who are in San Jose since I am in Calgary, Albert, Canada
I am making knitted ornamaments for the women in my world, and the men will be getting jellies and pickles that I made over the summer.
Giving aprons to my husbands three brothers which we will paint with their family motto.
I have home canned Apricot and Jalapeno Jelly for some family members and also pickled okra for some.
Ohhh these are too cute! I’m giving both homemade bath salts & lotion bars, but also canned goods like green tomato chutney and your pear cranberry compote!
These are lovely! I’ll be gifting salsas and jams, as well as a knitted cowl that I would really rather keep for myself.
I’m making mini fruit cakes to give to all our single/widowed friends this year. I’m using dried fruits rather than candied fruits.
I’ll be giving home-made granola in sweet jars along with the recipe.
Fudge
Every year I give smoked salt, smoked peppercorns and smoked whole heads of garlic. This year I also tried smoking ground mustard. Going to try making a mustard with it. Keep your finger crossed for success. =) Excellent give away!!
Homemade soap, plum jam and sweet pickle relish.
I made blueberry jam and watermelon jelly for Christmas this year! (and applesauce for myself
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I’m planning on making Christmas Cookie & Candy trays for our friends!
why, homemade jam, of course! might even throw in a few pickled jars on the side.
I am giving away homemade apple butter with my mothers biscuit recipe. Also baskets with homemade pear honey, Dubliner cheese and crackers.
I am giving some of my peach skin jelly.
I made homemade vanilla extract, vanilla sugar and then apple butter for gifts this year.
I’m giving my grandmother a jar of bread and butter pickles. They are her favorite!
I’ve made strawberry vinaigrette dressing for my mother.
Oooh, yummy! I’ll be making lots of homemade things to give as gifts this year. I’ll be making goody trays filled with homemade cookies and candies to give to my neighbors and landlord. I’ll also be making some syrup for homemade soda to give to my siblings (bought the Homemade Soda book by Andrew Schloss and LOVE it!) and I’m also hoping to make some spiced pear butter and cranberry marmalade to give to family. And then there’s the knitting I’m hoping to get done in time for Christmas….
Jam is such a great gift because it gets used up! I love it for my older parents (we don’t use the word “elderly”)because it’s perfect with tea and toast! These look wonderful and I will be checking out the website. Thanks!
I’m making jalapeno jam, pear jam and a baked good of sorts.
Homemade beeswax lip balm and lotion bars and cherry jubilee (fresh Door Co Wisconsin cheeries soaked in alcohol in a jar).
I’ve made some caramel-y apple butter and granola for family and close friends, and I’m going to make some dog and cat treats for their lovely pets! Happy Holidays
My husband has requested my signature strawberry bread as gifts to take in to his coworkers!
I am making aprons with a set of matching tea towels and potholders. In each of the apron pockets will be jars of homemade taco seasoning and roast rub.
I am giving away pints of apple butter, raspberry jam, and pear jelly … family favorites that I have to hide in the closet, to make sure they last until Christmas morning!! Thanks for sharing the give-away!!
I’m aiming to give away only handmade gifts this year: pear and apple butter; green tomato pickles, green tomato relish, green tomato chutney (LOTS of green tomatoes from the garden this year!), various cookies and crackers, and English muffins that we’ll eat for Christmas Day breakfast, smothered in hollandaise if I get my wish …
I am actually making the jellied cranberry recipe from here to give as gifts! Made it for Thanksgiving and it was a big hit!
Last year it was jam and salsa; but this year I’ve made some mint and chamomile tea and also pepper flakes for my coworkers. Not too hot, just spicy enough! The giveaway looks great!
I’m giving home made cookies and candies.
Apple-cranberry sauce for the lucky ones!
I am constantly giving away jars of jam and other goodies for kindnesses received. Canned goods have become my gift of choice. I would love to win this!
In addition to my lovingly home-canned foods, I’m planning on giving out some sandy pecan shortbread. i think it will go nicely with the berry & balsamic jam I made. Last year I made chocolate filled brioche muffins that were a BIG hit!
We’re giving away some jars of the first pickles we’ve ever made this summer. Also, I am going to give some girl friends some facial mixes from my herbal pantry.
Cranberry marmalade…already given for Thanksgiving treat..maybe another cranberry style for Christmas…Food in Jars inspired
I have a friend who loves hot sauces so I’m making her a basket with homemade Sirracha and hot pepper jelly.
My husband and I brewed a batch of Pecan Porter Stout which will be prime for drinking on xmas, so a 6pack and maybe some apple butter if we really like you!
This year I made four different kinds of cucumber pickles (two kinds of bread and butter pickles, and two kinds of garlic dills), strawberry rhubarb honey jam, and some pickled peaches and pickled concord grapes. I’ll give these out as gifts, but I also have plans to make some refrigerator pickled beets for a friend who adores them, and perhaps some blueberry maple jam with some berries I froze earlier. I think that should cover most of folks on my list this year!
Great giveaway! I’m making my famous cheese sticks with a jar of homemade peach jam. It sounds bizarre, but is in fact an excellent combo!
I’ll be giving jars of Apple Pie Jam that came out so good, I can’t stop eating it myself!
This year it’s homemade bitters, tomato jam, fleur del sel caramels and maybe some nougat. I love jam, especially apricot, and am lucky to know three fabulous professional jam-makers, including Rachel Saunders of Blue Chair above. (Suzanne Fuoco of Pink Slip Jam in PDX and June Taylor in Berkeley, too).
I’m giving green tomato chutney, red tomato chutney, and pickled native NH oyster mushrooms!!!! I’ve been so inspired by your blog!
I’m making macaroons for my best friends coming back from college. They’re delicious and I’ve missed them!
Candied Nuts and Caramel Corn.
Oh, wouldn’t this be a lovely gift to have?
I’m working on some knitted wrist warmers, soap, and yellow tomato jam for Christmas gifts. Maybe some spa towels to go with the soap. Maybe some cranberry/orange “relish” as well. May have enough watermelon rind pickles to include in some. Kinda depends upon how I feel when the baskets are assembled, the phase of the moon, and a couple of other variables!
This year I am giving my family all homemade gifts – most of them will be knitted.
I’m making candied jalepenos for my family.
We’re making family photo books for grandparents overseas.
I’m felting a purse, making cookies, chai tea mix, granola, roasting coffee beans, possibly lemon curd and cranberry mustard. And reading these comments is giving me even more ideas! I’m running out of time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My sisters wanted a personalized painting from me forever, so I’m finally making her one for christmas
I’m giving away some canned oranges–in marmalade, in Grand Marnier, etc…as well as some hand spun alpaca yarn bar soap cozies…..as long as I can get enough time to do it all!
I will be giving away my Peach Fruitcakes- yes the much maligned sweet treat-
they are delicious and get better with age!
I’ll be making toffee again since it was such a huge hit last year. I made sheets of toffee, and then covered both sides in dark chocolate. Half got covered in roasted almond bits, and the other half was sprinkled with sea salt. Yum!
I haven’t had the opportunity to try any of these four jams yet! So far, I’ve already given early holiday gifts. Slow roasted figs with lemon, tomato jam (made from your recipe!), low-sugar mango jam and more.
I made a winter warmer porter for gifts this year. High-alcohol content dark beer with a bit of ginger and cinnamon…great on a cold day!
My husband and I are doing an almost-totally-homemade Christmas. In addition to me knitting a sweater for my mom and various baby garments, we had a lot of extra produce from our CSA share and have made: peach butter, grape jam, applesauce, apple butter, and brandied plums, which will be given out in fancy baskets with packets of recipes. (I seriously hope my family doesn’t hate it or think we’re insane.)
The majority of my holiday gifts are homemade. This year I will be giving jams & jellies (10+ different kinds), canned salsas, my red sauce, my bbq sauce and probably some cookies.
I’m giving away re-usable grocery shopping bags I make from empty chicken/rabbit feed bags. It’s a simple way to recycle a feed bag and makes for a really sturdy, spill proof shopping bag.
I am making maple bacon jam for my family this year!
Homemade cranberry bread and pear butter.
this year I have limited funds and even more limited time. my extended family is getting 3 1/2 pints of home made mustard with “bread mix”. The ladies in our dance troupe, are all getting homemade nutilla & I’m sewing carry-scabbards for their swords.
This Jam box would go to my grandma.
Cherry liquer.
I am giving away a trio of jars this year:
Cranberry Jam
Pomegranite and Presecco Jelly
Salted Carmel Pear Butter
I made two wedding shawls this summer, so no knitting is being gifted this year. I am making homemade deodorant (Hey, it was requested and the next time I’ll see my folks is Christmas!) and will also give a couple of apple butters that I made from apples that grew in my backyard.
I am gifting my tomato jam and kiefer pear with white balsamic jam along with my crocheted potholders. The family then puts in requests for some of my apricot, peach or applesauce. Since we have our own fruit trees they know each year there are batches of new items coming at the holidays.
Yummy! I just made the Cinnamon Pear Jam you featured last week for all the girls that work in my husband’s office. Of course I kept a little for us at home and we loved it.
I’m giving away pickles and jam this year – and an entire case of marinara sauce to my dear devoted daughter, who loves it.
This year my family and friends will be recieving homemade vanilla.
I made red hot apples, without using the candies but still got awesome flavor, and gave them to my siblings to remind them of the ones that my great grandma used to make for us when we were kids.
Lots of homemade gifts this year – peach-whiskey jam for far away relatives, needlepoint sandals for my mom and a custom cookbook for my MIL!
Classic pickles are always a fav but this year I’m excited to give out my pickled asparagus! It’s delish in bloodys!
I’m giving lots of food as gifts this year. I have various jams and preserves, bread, and fancy sugar cookies.
I am giving away rum soaked sour cherries that I canned up this summer. Also, sour cherry jam, peach amaretto jam, and I think I am doing some jelly this weekend. I never know until the end.
I am painting a picture for each of my grown kid’s and i am painting a couple of friends some folk art. I love jam ! I make my own but this year I have not been able to .
Would so love to have these!
A gift basket of home made jams & baked goods.
Oooh, that sounds lovely.
I’m giving away some jam, some fruit syrup, and some cranberry liqueur I made a couple weekends ago.
Cookies and fudge
i am giving homemade bars of soap with a hand knitted washcloth to all of our family members, along with a quart of my own recipe of granola.
I will be making cranberry/pistachio biscotti this year for presents
I am making a homemade stocking for my boyfriend!
I’m binding a hardcover journal for my dad if I can get it right. A pretty big ‘if’ at this point.
cranberry/pistachio biscotti for presents this year
I will be giving out some of my Satsuma Mandarin Jelly.
I’m going to use some of our reserves of frozen, shredded zucchini to make mini loaves of zucchini quick bread as gifts for my coworkers.
I’m making my co-worker ladies feather barrettes for their hair.
Yum — I would LOVE to try that Blenheim apricot as the chipmunks climb my Blenheim apricot tree and strip all the apricots off just before they are ready to be picked. They bite off the flesh and spit it on the ground and just take the seeds! The Blue Chair is a book that I go to for recipes and that would be wonderful to try as well. I have over 70 + jars of jam to choose from to give away this Christmas. I wrap several different kinds in cellophane and tie with a beautiful ribbon. Very impressive little gift and from the heart!
rhubarb cordial. Thanks for the chance to win.
We’re giving gifts of our concord grape jam and homemade granola. Would love to try these delicious-looking treats!!
I’m giving away canning — in particular a salsa that my family asks for every year.
I have tons of jam and pickles I made over the summer, but I like to make a ton of cookies (a number of types) and give them to friends and neighbors.
Oooh. I’m going to share some of my tomato jam, if I can bear to part with any. And some apple chutney. I have a great recipe from Tigress in a Jam (or is it Pickle?) with Indian Spices to make this afternoon.
I’m making fudge for my Grandma. She was just complaining the other day that she hasn’t been able to find any good fudge lately.
I am giving knitted sock, hats and scarves and also homemade meyer lemon marmalade, berry jam, apricot chutney and plum/pluot conserve.
I will be doing many handmade gifts this year but my favorite (so far) is jars of home canned Gingered Cranberry Pear Chutney with homemade crackers and wheels of brie.
We’re giving homemade ketchup from “Put ‘em Up” to our families for Christmas. We also had some note cards made on Snapfish with photos we’ve taken this year. Those are always a big hit with the Grandmas.
I’m making homemade caramels this year! Would love a chance to win this!
Im doing my yearly Christmas cookie tins, but this year ill also be baking fresh cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning breakfast for all our new neighbors!
Since I missed out on canning this year (broken foot, rebroken foot, surgury), I’m sticking to cookies (my best friends daughter send her wish list every year and makes sure to include her parent’s favorites so they all get a treat) and “my embarrassingly easy amaretto cake”. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
I’ll be sharing my caramelized onions with burgundy wine and my chocolate cherry sauce with my friends and family!
Three peserved items I’m giving as gifts this year: Tomato Jam for those who can stand the spice, Pear Lavender for those who live lavender and Pear Caramel Jam for the rest.
I’ll be making the usual – which started last year – peppermint bark, lemon poppy seed mini loaves, mini banana breads, and mini cinnamon loaves. All of these were extremely well-received last year. I’ve already bought eight pounds of chocolate!
I just finished some meyer lemon curd made with lemons given to me by an awesome co-worker.
I’m giving homemade vanilla extract.
Trying to narrow it down between jams, mustards, breakfast baskets, and spice mixes – I want to give them all!
This year, I’m going to be making an assortment of homemade soda and shrub syrups to give away to family and friends. Here’s a link to one: a completely kickass natural cola syrup I’ve totally fallen in love with!
http://kitchentablepolitic.blogspot.com/2011/09/cola-magic.html
I’ve already made a batch of rugelach for my husband to share with his colleagues. I wish I could can some gifts again this year, but don’t have the time to do so again this holiday. Last year, I made orange marmalde, cranberry jam, and applesauce.
caramels!
I am giving away some preserves this year, for sure, but my latest project is stationary gift sets that I am making with a Mason jar stamp I carved myself!
thanks for posting this giveaway … what a wonderful gift idea!
I’ll be sharing cookies and brownies at work and strawberry-fig jam/meyer-lavender marmalade for friends and family. (… and if I manage to decipher the mango-passionfruit caramel recipe we had in paris, then those will go to our very favorite people.)
This year I’ll be giving away Meyer Lemon Curd, Bourbon Satsuma Marmalade and Spiced Apple Butter. I made and canned them here at home.
Gifting lots of preserves as usual, the one I’m most excited about is just some basic applesauce for a friend with a new baby. (Am I the only one who has a soft spot for that 80s movie Baby Boom? With Diane Keaton? Where she makes all the applesauce?)
Wax Bean’s. I was swimming in them this summer and last xmas the inlaws bought me a pressure canner so I’d though I share the gift of pressure canning. I’m also giving peach salsa too, which I think will get a much more enthusiastic thank you. Kiddos are making granola (made from apple butter!) and crocheted dish cloths to give to teachers and gparents. I’ll also give socks to the kids and mittens though those might need to wait until after xmas. Thanks for a great year of canning!
Making handprint and footprint ornaments with my new daughter…
Definitely cookies and i’ve been considering homemade vanilla extract and infused vodka if i have the time – something to research this weekend definitely.
I am giving out homemade vanilla, inspired by one of your older post. Super excited.!
Every year we make oil and vinegar from the herbs in our garden.
These look great! I will be making pickled cranberries to share!
We are using beeswax from our hives to make candles.
I made 2 batches of Pumpkin Butter during Thanksgiving weekend that I plan to give to Friends & Relatives.
I would love to win the Jam gift box!
I’m making placemats and coasters and homemade marshmallows.
i am going to make yummy desserts to share!
Love your blog!!! I’ll be making some of your jam this year.
I usually give vanilla sugar. It is so good in coffee!
I’m knitting socks
I’m sharing my Bread and butter pickles that I made this year. They came out very good and crisp. I was so pleased with them that I wouldn’t feel ashamed for people to eat them. I used a recipe out of balls big book of canning recipes. This was my first time at pickling anything and it turned out so well that I don’t know why I was hesitant to try it. It was a bit involved with the ice and the rinsing but not hard at all it turned out. Wouldn’t it be fun to win this little gift as the last day you can enter is my birthday, lol.
Caramel corn, homemade jam, and something a little chocolatey and boozy – like rum balls made with Nabisco chocolate wafer cookies.
I am making homemade marshmallows dipped in dark chocolate and giving them away with graham crackers. Mmmmmmm.
I’m knitting hats for three darling little girls, ages 3, 3, and 2. They have two tassels and will be just as adorable as the girls. Also making the sugared peanuts for the men, and batches of white chocolate peppermint candy.
Making handmade soap for all the loved ones in my life
I’m giving away some homemade cinnamon applesauce (my grandma’s recipe) to my in-laws.
We’re making a gift box of several varieties of home-made mustard to send around to family and friends.
I am sending a jar each of red pepper jelly and yellow tomato with basil jam to our friends in New York.
I’m making various infused sea salts for this holiday give away. Thanks for all of your wonderful posts!!
I’m giving my grandpa a jar of the orange and rosehip marmalade I made this summer-it’s sweetened with apple juice, no sugar, so he can eat it
I will be canning some of your cranberry jelly soon for my sister! And I am hoping to do some citrus marmalades closer to Christmas.
I will be giving out a variety of blackberry jams (basil, jalapeno, orange, lime, etc) to some family members this year.
I make fused glass jewelry and I melt bottles. I will give my next door neighbor one of my fused bottles of something they like to drink filled with some of my homemade “goodies”.. That way, in this economy, they don’t feel like they have to spend a lot of money and we don’t get into the “keeping up with the Joneses” syndrome. For example, one of my double melted wine bottles will have one kind of candy in one side and another kind in the other side.
Dulce de leche!! This vanilla-flavored caramel is awesome.
I recently moved from Texas to rural Massachusetts where I have a surprising amount of time on my hands. With help from you and others, I’ve taught myself to preserve foods (a totally foreign concept to the throw-it-away household I grew up in) and having been really enjoying myself. I went back to Texas for Thanksgiving and gave everyone homemade Cranberry Jelly from organic South Coast cranberries with a little cinnamon and clove. Huge hit all around.
We like to knock on all our neighbor’s doors and surprise them with baskets filled with jars of jam & pickles and homemade cookies. This year? Curried Pickles and Plum Jam with Triple Sec.
Great gift- we’d love to win-
This is my post from today of what we made for friends for the holidays:
http://ladyofthearts.blogspot.com/2011/11/diy-holiday-gift-ideas-under-five.html
I’m giving away a cherry duo to my imediate family members: one pint each of pickled tart cherries and maraschino-style sweet cherries. They make a great addition to holiday drinks, and being in Michigan, it’s local product. The tart cherries looove vanilla vodka or anything gin, and the sweets love a spicy rum, like Captain Morgan Taboo (which is our fave for dousing fruitcakes – much better than bourbon with the extra hints of almond, cherry and spice).
I think these jams sound luscious. I was wondering if you have come close to replicating any of them. As for me, my home made holiday gift this years is going to be my Manischevitz Concord Grape Wine Jelly. It is particularly yummy on fried matzoh.
I’ll be gifting some homemade bread to a lucky few.
I love the sound of the wonderful items everyone is giving as gifts! For me…..probably be the pepper mustards, jellies and jams. For my youngest granddaughter, maybe banana bread.
I’m giving to family members my grape jam and peach jam made last August. Hope they enjoy it!
We’re doing a homemade Christmas this year. I’m making scarves and hats for everyone to go along with homemade jams that I put up this summer!
Pear Butter; neighbors have 2 massive pear trees and they just leave a bucket out on weekends.
Ginger pickled peaches. They were a huge hit last year, and were requested again!
lip balm, spicy hot cocoa mix, bath salts, felt ornaments.
I made some masculine toiletry bags for a lot of the men as well as fresh homemade pies in mason jars that are frozen, then stuck right into the oven to bake and perfect pie in 45 mins.
I’m giving baskets with my homemade jam, pickles, and salsa. I can expand these with local products – wild rice, coffees, etc. Extended family members love these.
I would love to win this amazing gift set!! I have already started giving homemade pineapple jam and strawberry jam!! Thank you for the opportunity!!
How exciting! This looks wonderful. I looooove your website and have made the tomato jam, grape ketchup, and fruit butter granola. All wonderful!!!
jam, homemade granola, and hand lotion!
Homemade needhams! And maybe some other stuff if I can decide and still have time.
I’m knitting kitchen cloths.
I’m hoping to make a batch of Caramel Apple Butter for my coworkers.
We’re giving homemade cranberry vodka, brandied peaches (yum!) and making bunches of treats — try the Caramel Crack(ers) and Salted Brown Butter Crispy Bars from smittenkitchen.com . Happy holidays!
We’re giving away spicy tomato chutney this year!
I’m giving jars of homemade bread & butter pickles, along with jars of homemade concord grape jelly. Quite a combination, eh?!
This year I am doing (for each of my three sisters) one of my small batch jams (4oz herbal infusions), one of my large batch (8oz standard fruit & spice), one of my pickles (asparagus all over), and a batch each of theives’ oil… they can eat well & stay healthy. These jams would be nice for me, though;)
I’m making cinnamon rolls for my neighbors! Always a hit.
I haven’t started my first jam-canning endeavor yet, but I am planning to give away some jars of homemade sugar scrub, and sew some “I Spy” bags for my niece & nephew!
I love how clean and super cute the brand labels are. I’ve most definitely giften homemade jam!
Right now I’m secretly working on a pair of handknit fingerless gloves for my husband…His last pair of gloves is about 5 years old now, and quite felted!
I want to win the jam! I am giving some jalapeneo jelly that I made last summer.
I think I’ll make some butter for people.
I will make homemade jelly! =)
Everyone so far has such wonderfully creative entries. I spent the summer having a blast canning jams, pickled hot peppers, applesauce and chutney. I will be gifting vanilla pear butter with a big, fat vanilla bean tied up real pretty.
I’m making fabric gift bags for people to use instead of wrapping paper. I don’t know what I’ll wrap the bags in though. (jk – I crack myself up!)
I’m also making toy mice from some wool scraps for my cats and a friend’s cat.
I just finished knitting a hat for my dad who lives in MN – a doubleknit earflap hat, of course. And perhaps a bit of salted caramel for some special people.
I made pickles and apple butter for my Mom and pickled beets for an Aunt that lives nearby!!!
I’m making Altoid brownies packaged in pretty boxes.
Giving starfruit jamalade (or marmajam) to my closest buds and a knitted shawl to my BFF.
I’ve made up several pints of spiced apples from Eugenia Bone’s recipe in Well-Preserved. They make a great Chanukah gift for topping latkes, or as a filling for little doughnuts. Delicious!
I’m appliquing aprons for my young cousins and daughter
I almost always make chocolate chip cookies for my dad, his husband, and their roommate. Ooh, and coconut ice! Dad loves them both, and, while I’m no pro cook or anything, I do happen to make both of those things really, really well.
It’s not homemade, but I’m throwing in some really good hot chocolate, this year.
♥
I always give jam as a stocking stuffer – but this year I am going to try the hot chocolate on a stick idea!
This year I’m making homemade oreo bark for the people I work with. I’m so excited about it!
I’m making my favorite banana bread this year to give away to friends and family (along with a note that the bread freezes well and so will keep for 6 months) – this way they’ll have something to enjoy after the holidays!
I am giving my SIL a silk and velvet christmas stocking for my new 5 month old niece. I’ve made it off the pattern for the stocking she got from her mother when she was little. Yup, she is in on it.
hey marisa:) (waving from florida)
im doing preserved lemons this year….in jars!!!!
hey remember my daughter delphina (you came to her going away to culinary school party at the art institute years ago). she is living on a little 7 acre farm in ny with her boyfriend (who works as a boutique butcher) and she is cooking breakfast and lunch at a new restaurant in hudson ny called Le Perche. their claim to fame is they imported a bread oven from france and built it on site brick by brick. if you are up there please check them out.
cant wait for your book! congrats on the new nephew. and say hi to scott.
ann marie
We will also be making boxes of things to give away this season. People may get grape-basil jelly and scones, or home made corn chips and the green tomato salsa I made at the end of the season. People I like very much and who celebrate Jewish holidays will get small bottles of etrogcello. I had to free-cycle enough etrogs to be able to do this, but the resulting liquid is a rich yellow, and smells deeply of etrogim.
My fiance and I are just putting together baskets for friends we will be seeing next week… Included will be an assortment of jams and jellies, bbq sauce, pickled green tomatoes and jalepenos, applesauce and apple butter, a bottle of local wine and some fresh baked goodies!
It’s been inspiring to read what others are giving… so many excellent ideas!
This year was my first foray into canning anything and I successfully made cranberry sauce and cranberry jam. So a couple of special family members will be getting vanilla cinnamon cranberry jam. It was a bit of an experiment but the vanilla and cinnamon added an amazing depth of flavor i wasnt expecting!
Apple butter for some local friends (and my sister, who got hers at Thanksgiving). The rest of the family will have to do without, as they won’t let me take it on the plane. I suppose I could try making some down there, but it won’t be the same unless I schlep down some apples from my tree to make it with.
I’m making homemade kahlua & cookies to give to friends & family, as well as some of the peach preserves I made earlier in the summer.
I made toffee a few years ago on a whim, and now my MIL requests it each Christmas.
I always give away homemade cookies and chocolate bark, but this year I think I will add my festive and yummy cranberry jalapeño jam. Mmmmm…
I will be giving lots of jam and some pickled items!! trying to give all homemade gifts this year:)
The last home made present for my friend’s baby’s dedication – it made her cry (in a good way!)
I’m making peanut butter fudge and cashew wedding cookies.
My three year old wants to give her friends marshmellows, dipped in chocolate and topped with sprinkles.
Homemade peppermint patties!
I think that people appreciate something homemade because it comes from the heart. I will be making apple pie chex mix, sugar and peanut butter cookies
With a new baby to celebrate Christmas with, I don’t have much time for homemade gifts. But, because of its simplicity, I will make A LOT of dark chocolate-covered pretzel rods for my husband’s family. I just buy some pretzel rods at the grocery store, the best dark chocolate I can find (usually Lindt 83% cocoa) and some sprinkles. It’s just melt, dip and sprinkle, then shoving them in the fridge. It takes minutes using the microwave (perfect during baby’s nap — and easy to monitor if he wakes up) and looks fancy to those who don’t know better. And the taste — well, let’s just say it always gets a wow…
homemade gingersnaps and snickerdoodles!
I made a ton of jam this summer so planning on tucking a jar into everyone’s presents!
I am giving gifts of homemade jam and scone mix in a jar, for gifts this season! These jams look delicious!
I am making an assortment of jam for gifts this year – people love them! And we are also giving away some of the dried pepper flakes we made from our garden!
I’ll share pickled beets and kirby cucs with family and friends. Have also knit a sweater for our new neice and a couple small items for others.
I’ve been making some wonderful quince jam that I hope to give to friends. Assuming I can make a batch and not eat it all myself.
Every year I send my partner to his parents with a gift box of cookies. this year I think I will add in some cranberry bread with some of my homemade vanilla rhubarb jam
Great gift idea! My homemade gifting will be platters of cardamom scented tea cookies, honey biscotti, butter & pecan snow ball cookies, etc, centered by a bowl of grazed spiced nuts.
I’m finally finishing a quilt for my mom!
Homemade cookies, pecans we picked up and shelled, and probably pans of homemade cinnamon rolls.
My mother has asked me to make her cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning. This used to be a tradition in our house until just a few years ago and she wants me to revive it
I’m making my famous chocolate chip cookies!
Hot pepper jelly! I have 30 jars of it ready to go!
I always make a variety of christmas cookies for my in-laws, but thanks to a bumper crop of jalapeno peppers from the garden this summer, I’m canning chipotle peppers in adobo sauce for presents!
I have a much shorter flight this year than in the past, so I am contemplating making a pie for my mom.
Beer!
Marmalade! Jam! Pickles! “Green magma” salsa verde! All year long I’ve been “Christmas shopping”
I was planning on trying to make some sweet & salty roast nuts (various types) and give them away with various (non-homemade) cheeses & honey.
I found some really cute ice-cream cartons, so I will be making home made ice-cream for gifts.
salted caramels……mmm
Every year I make boxes of homemade cookies and cakes for a friends and neighbors. I also make other food gifts, like spicy maple walnuts, savory tarts and cinnamon rolls, as well as dozens and dozens of cookies for my kids.
I’m making fancy hot chocolate baskets, with hot chocolate powder mixed from Penzey’s cocoa, home-made marshmallows, stripey straws, and various other mix-ins. Also, I sewed some felt strawberries and Swiss rolls for the little ones.
At the moment, I’m making vanilla pear butter. Not sure if it will make it out to presents, but it is my intention!
I am giving jam made from our fruit tree.
I have decided to try cross-stitching for the first time. I want to make a cross stitch family tree for my grandmother who is quickly losing her memory. I am hoping it will help her recall her 6 children, 8 grandchildren and 5 great grands.
i’m giving an assortment of homemade jams and hand knits! these jams look good
I’m doctoring a wood recipe box for a friend!
I’m making thumbprint cookies out of some mulberry/rhubarb jam made last year, and giving them to family.
Apple butter for everyone!
Hand knitted stockings for my nephews, and jam and pickles for just about everybody else we know.
I am giving homemade jam and salsa this year along with some baked goods!
I made my first jam this year. I’d love to try some from a master jammer!
I will be giving my canned dill pickles, strawberry jam, salsa, applesauce, and lime blueberry jam to friends and family.
I’m so proud of it all especially since I canned for the first time this summer!
I’m making homemade stevia extract for my mother and sisters-in-law. I also have some cherry “syrup” that I made over the summer to give to all my friends.
I already gave my fig-sage jam to my neighbor who told me that it was like tasting her Serbian MIL’s jam AND that next year she will give me figs from the treee she planted last year. It had fruit this year but she said you are supposed to wait until next year. All my friends and family are recipients of my new obsession with canning and only the watermelon jam can out kinda awful. the rest? YUM
I will be sharing different jams, home grown herbs and homemade vanilla extract aged for 3 months ( along with some handmade gifts unrelated to food…)
Making very grateful cards for all who will help me pull off my wedding!
I’m handing out jars of jam with a side of biscotti to several people this year.
I’m giving homemade marmalade.
I’ve made felt stockings for my 3 grandchildren.
I’ll be giving Mountain Dew Jelly this year.
I’ll be giving away homemade sausage and cookies.
I’m gifting some of my red wine strawberry jam, candied pecans and lots of holiday cookies!
I’m giving jars of muscadine jelly from the grapes I grew in my yard.
This year…once again I’m making Roze’s Kickass Mustard in a variety of flavors. So far, an Orange~Juniper Honey Mustard and a Lemon~Honey Beer Mustard. An Apple~Sundried Tomato Mustard is in the making as we speak. Thinking I may make those pickled cranberries you wrote about and some pickled red onions and considering candied ginger again and with the leftover liquid a few small bottles of ginger liqueur. Oh my!!! I’m busy, aren’t I?
I’m going to make nut-butter truffles to give away! Two versions, one made with coconut and lime zest and another made with cocoa powder a ground coffee.
p.s. my location will come up as Mexico but I will be back in the US on Dec. 7th!
Just for my mom but a “quillow.” Grandma taught us all sewing craft but the concept of quilt and pillow in one always had enough masculine utility to keep me interested.
Homemade jam is my favorite holiday gift – my kids’ teachers look forward to it every year!
Homemade cookies & other delicious treats!
i’m planning on making homemade candies of some sort.
Well, we’re gifting a lot of homemade stuff this year… maybe not everything on this list, but a lot of those ideas will end up in our friends and families’ hands this year. That jam pack is adorable. I love how cute all the labels are!
I’m thinking of doing spice mixes. I’m rather pleased with the taco and ranch seasoning recipes I’ve found online. My jams have already made their way into the hands of family and friends. I’m get too excited when they’re fresh to wait.
Homemade strawberry jam as well as homemade peach preserves. Summer was good.
I’m making pickles for a white elephant gift exchange – mostly because of your inspiration at Thanksgiving
Doing a dry run this weekend so let’s hope they’re edible!
I’m giving away strawberry and raspberry jams that I made this summer. Lightly sweet, not too much pectin. Yum!
making homemade kahlua for the first time this year to give away. also thinking of pans of pioneer woman’s cinnamon buns. yum!
I’m only gifting handmade this year! So far I’ve made two crocheted owl toddler hats, two necklaces, a beaded snowflake ornament, a beaded knit bracelet, a knit scarflet, and a knit play ice cream cone.
I’m making pistachio toffee brittle for friends and family this year!
I travel by plane, so homemade food gifts are hard, but I made lavender sachet stocking stuffers for everyone!
Can’t wait to share my chokecherry syrup!
I’m making caramels to go with all of my gifts.
I’m knitting scarves and wrapping them with jalapeno jelly!
Those look great!
Making a Dutch favorite, banket, as well as homemade pasta to gift with pasta sauce canned earlier this summer.
Jam. Just saying the word makes me smile in anticipation.
This looks great! I am putting together a scrap book of photos from the last year to give my mother-in-law so she has pictures of her grand-daughter.
This year I have made an assortment of items for gifts this Christmas. I am giving away Tomato Basil Soup, Fire Roasted Salsa, Cinnamon Apple Jelly and Peach Butter. Just typing them makes my mouth water for the goodness that is in jars!
Linda
These look marvelous, thanks for the chance at them!
I’m crocheting my mother-in-law an afghan and my mother a scarf!
I will be giving Bourbon Apple Butter with pottery jam jars…both made by ME.
It isn’ food, per say, but I gave homemade gingerbread body scrub. It smelled so yummy and the final product was just so beautiful!
I’m giving homemade black raspberry jam, bread & butter pickles, and caramel corn.
I’m giving away some cranberry apple jam I made from this blog! I also might get ambitious enough to make some aprons.
I am giving away some homemade wild black raspberry jam that is oh so delicious!
I will be gifting lots of crocheted hats this year along with two tied fleece blankets.
This year Im giving away homeade tea and flavored cocoas in mason jars. Also love handmade soaps as a gift idea!
all our grandparents, parents and siblings are getting a memorial book we put together of our little son that didn’t make it. we added bits of info that we’ll forget with time: his room number, his nurses names, how much he weighed, why we named him what we did. it seemed like a really good way to not only have a memorial, but was something that no one needed to dust or have on display. we wrote it in the form of a storybook so that it was appropriate to share with our nieces and nephews and hopefully our future children.
we’ve also been dutifully jostling a whole bunch of homemade vanilla for the last few months. we bought the beans online from Mexico and purchased small bottles for gift giving. super excited to embellish everyone’s baking this year!
I am giving away my hand made soaps, bath salts and massage oil to my neighbors and family
I have been making the chocolate raspberry sauce on the ball canning website. Easy to make and everyone loves it!
I made and am giving my best girls cranberry marmalade and a 5 pepper hot pepper jelly.
My family members have been the recipient of a myriad of homemade jam varieties.
-the redhead-
this year i’m giving away homemade bread and butter pickles, bourbon apple jelly and assorted baked goods (cookies, granola, etc.) I LOVE holiday baking. makes the house smell amazing and I get to share it all with people I care about!
What a great giveaway! We’re giving away a combination of canned treats, home-brewed beer and handmade knits this year. Lots of work, but such pleasure putting it all together.
love, Love, LOVE your website and all that everyone does!!! I am doing butters, applesauce, and other home made goodies….
I made Apple jelly for my family and “Cookies in a Jar”.
Mmm! Jams! Sounds like an awesome giveaway! Thank you.
We’re trying to make as much as we possibly can this year. Already I’ve got 9 12oz jars of strawberry syrup to pair with pancake mix. Then I would love to experiment with some flavored vinegars. On the not food front, we’re making wristwarmers and ornaments.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I’m giving rosemary-apple butter and blood orange marmalade, plus mini-loaves of spice breads to go with them.
I’m making nuts and bolts and packing it in mason jars for my friends.
I’d love to win this! I’m planning on giving assortments of jams to various friends this holiday season. The latest one I’ve made is lemongrass vanilla jelly….
This holiday season I will be gifting apple butter (made especially with my grandmother in mind) along with strawberry rubarb jam (both of which I found growing in the backyard of the house I bought last christmas) and lots and lots of canned tomatos.
Homemade applesauce and strawberry jam! I would love to win this
Count me in please!
I will be making spiced nuts for gifts. Easy and yummy!
Looking forward to giving lots of jams and breads. And a few hand-knit scarves, too!
You all have such wonderful sounding gifts that I’m a little embarrassed to just be giving my stuffed pepper soup (made with my canned tomatoes and frozen peppers from my garden.) I’ll be including a fresh loaf of homemade garlic bread with that!
Wonderful giveaway… wonderful to regift to that special someone…
Crocheted fingerless gloves to all the ladies this year! Gave a couple last year and everybody wanted them so this year everybody gets them.
for years our grandma laura made home made caramels, individualy wrapped, given to each family member so no one had to share. after she passed away no one has even attempted to re-create her special reciepe even though we all miss them and talk about the “good ol days” every year.
this year i have decided to try and recreate this memory for everyone..i’m 2 trial batches in and have yet to reach the perfect mix…but, i will get it, hopefully just in time for christmas.
I make gift baskets every year, filled with baked goodies! Cardamon bread, sugar cookies, spiced nuts, almond toffee, and homemade peppermint marshmallows! This year I am adding some canned yummies! I just picked up a case of pink lady apples (YAY for awesome sales making them among the cheapest of apples this week!) and am making an apple sauce put into my baskets! I’m so very excited!
Homemade pumpkin “Bailey’s”
I am giving jars of homemade pizza sauce, grape jam, strawberry jam, strawberry-banana jam, both apple & pear butters & bottles of homemade vanilla. There are also a few sewing projects/gifts thrown in there too.
I have been in a jam making frenzy this year, some of the goodies I am giving for Christmas gifts this year are Cranberry Pear Lemon Jam, Ginger Peach and Pear Jam, Blackbarb Jam, Autumn Fruit Jam, and Jumbleberry Jam.
I made homemade vanilla extract at the beginning of the summer. It will make great gifts!
I make hundreds of cookies every year that I give to neighbors, our local library, letter carrier, etc. It’s a tradition started by my mother when I was a child.
Jars of this summer’s salsa with my favorite chips!
I’m bottling home-infused vodka made with summer fruit.
I’m giving jam to several people (of course), your vanilla-pear jam recipe to be exact. And I’m knitting a hat for my mom and headband for my sister.
Biscottis, jams, apple jelly candies, all kinds of yummy treats!
I’ll be giving out homemade (and processed!) praline pecan syrup!
I’ll be sharing pistachio brittle!
I am sharing a box of jam (blueberry, strawberry or mixed berry) and my award winning biscotti (says my husband) with a mini box of James’ mint sticks (my fave!)
I’m giving away lots of jam! Also throwing some homemade tomato sauce in there for my mom by special request! The trickiest thing for me is always figuring out how to pack a few cases of jam into my suitcase for the flight!
Cranberry Apple jam (your recipe – which everyone loved last year), Pear Vanilla Syrup, Celery Salt & Pizza Seasoning mix
My two-year-olds made painted and sequined tree ornaments, I am making hand painted peg people for my girls, and homemade baked goods (cookies, bread, etc) for friends and family.
Concord grape jam & pomegranate jelly – both of which are family affairs. The grapes and pomegranates are on family property where my sister lives, so she tends the fruit. My mom, my sister & I gather the fruit and then we make the jam & jelly. My sister gets adventurous and makes other things as well. The pom jelly is always a big hit!
I’m giving my Oregon strawberry jam, maple-rosemary glazed walnuts, lemon curd…and apple butter if I get it made! But now I want to read all 631 comments (!) for more ideas!
I made lots of condiments this year (jam, salsa, ketchup, and relish) so I like to construct a basket of goodies around each one.
That blenheim jam is AMAZING. I’m making grapefruit jam & a lemon salt blend for gifts this year.
I give jam every year. Some years I wrap them with homemade bread, other years it may be muffins. Always a gift basket of some sort with jam.
Grapefruit verjus jelly and candied citron!
Wow – that’s a lot of responses!
We’re planning to give a small jar of chutney and some homemade crackers this year.
oh darn, 45 minutes late! but i’m making krupnikas, a lithuanian honey and spice liqueur. i got all the little bottles already. couldn’t get to the post earlier b/c the kids are having a sleepover and bedtime was a little rocky. love your site!
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