"To Keep You Warm" gift idea
So the BF's extended family does a themed gift exchange each year. This year's theme is "Something to keep you warm." Since we all think with our stomachs this time of year, can you suggest any food or drink related gifts I could bring? Nice hot sauce? A mulled wine or cider kit with spices measured out? (Recipes welcome!)
We're not supposed to spend more than $15 and of course, I want people to fight over whatever gift I bring so it's gotta be good!
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19 Comments:
Hmm, my first thought was Bailey's or Kahlua. Not sure anyone would fight over this stuff though...
Cassaendra at 12:02PM on 12/15/08
Hot chocolate mix made with shaved chocolate a la William sonoma
Aynsl156 at 12:06PM on 12/15/08
Hot chocolate mix, peppermint sticks, marshmallows, mugs, and peppermint schnapps.
Hot sauce, Bar-B-Q sauce and a small George Forman.
A coffee travel mug, good coffee beans, a grinder.
A scarf wrapped around a very expensive box of chocolates.
HeartofGlass at 12:39PM on 12/15/08
I'd fight for Godiva White Chocolate Liquor!
nancyromero at 12:42PM on 12/15/08
What about some kind of soup kit? Like the ones you can buy with seasonings and beans in them. You could make a beer bread mix to go with it. Or a nice chili powder mix with fresh spices, maybe a cornbread mix to accompany.
Actual chile/spicy foods (hot sauce, etc.) make me think more of summer, but maybe that's just me.
I love the sweets but I always wonder if it starts to get out of hand around the holidays.
renzata at 12:51PM on 12/15/08
Hot drink mixes.
You could do hot chocolate (maybe different flavors of hot chocolate -- plain, peppermint, maple, etc.), spiced tea, chai tea, a mulled wine kit, and maybe some flavored teas.
"Instant" mocha. Mix some instant coffee with your favorite hot chocolate mixture. Yeah, instant coffee isn't great, but a little bit mixed with chocolate is not such a bad thing.
dbcurrie at 1:10PM on 12/15/08
Two things came to mind that I have received as gifts in the past that I really enjoyed. I loved a tin of Godiva Hot Chocolate mix given to me by a friend and another was a small basket with some homemade buckwheat pancake mix and a good bottle of maple syrup. Both were things that I would not have purchased for myself.
vickiee at 1:39PM on 12/15/08
I agree with the drink mix idea. This year as Christmas presents for each of my roommates I filled cute Christmasy coffee mugs with a couple of "gourmet" hot cocoa mixes, mini heart-shaped marshmellows, candy canes, homemade biscotti and chocolate shavings...aaand a mini bottle of Bailey's. The roommates seemed to like them :)
vanillapudding99 at 2:24PM on 12/15/08
uhhh, a bottle of Cuervo and a lime?
I mean, really.
ChelleyD01 at 4:02PM on 12/15/08
I don't really have any new ideas that haven't been mentioned... but... What a cool idea for gift exchange! What other themes have you done?
jlweber at 4:04PM on 12/15/08
brandy, hot toddy, spiced mulled wine, hot apple cider ( I prefer mine hard cider)
pjracz10 at 4:06PM on 12/15/08
a hot cider mix - you can either do it up ahead of time or give it to them in a big decorative jar and let them brew it themselves:
a great tasting apple cider from a farm
fresh ginger sliced thinly into diagonal pieces
cinnamon sticks
cloves
a nice dried red chili pepper, two or three (or cayenne pepper)
lemon or orange rinds in a ribbon shape done with a veg. peeler
now brew this up and it will WARM YOU UP!!!!
and if you don't give it as a gift, please make it for yourself....
pooch at 4:36PM on 12/15/08
oh i forgot to say -- some dark rum -- or stoly pepper vodka.... not only will it warm them up -- it may put them into another dimension.....
pooch at 4:38PM on 12/15/08
@pooch I soooooooo want to be in that dimension.
pjracz10 at 5:26PM on 12/15/08
sambuca and some cute little glasses. maybe in a pretty basket.
dearrie at 5:37PM on 12/15/08
@pooch...cannot find the Stoli Peppar Vodka anywhere around here. A favorite of ours and I agree it has a great warming quality.
bessfour at 8:07PM on 12/15/08
Gingersnaps! I baked a bunch tonight with 4 tsp ginger, 2tsp cloves, and 2 tsp cinnamon - Spicy! Warming! Also better than any air freshner...
PeanutButter at 10:35PM on 12/15/08
@bessfour - maybe another brand makes a pepper vodka? i haven't actually bought the stoly one in awhile.... you can always spice up your own vodka ... put some dried hot chili's in a bottle of V and let it sit.... strain it out whenever it tastes good.
@pjracz10 - you are funny!!!!!!
pooch at 10:39PM on 12/16/08
absolut makes peppar vodka also.
marianne215 at 9:51PM on 12/22/08