Giveaways From Your Kitchen

Giving gifts should never be a cause for you, the giver, to feel pressured. A gift is a gift that is freely and heartily given. Unfortunately the commercialism of the world has caused people to just troop to the malls to buy gifts to the people that they love and by doing so, forgetting the possibility of giving something that comes from the heart - a gift that is made by your own hands.

Even if you are not a whiz in the kitchen, you can still do something to create a masterpiece that is worthy to be given to family and friends as a gift. For beginners, baking can be quite a challenge. Baking as you know is an exact science, you can't just pour and mix anything that catches your fancy so as a beginner you might want to stay away from baking momentarily. You can start practicing though so that when the next gift giving season comes, you can give your baked goodies as gifts.

The beginner what you can do is to copy recipes from the internet and prepare the ingredients, making sure that your gift pack will not include stuff that are perishable. You can buy jars and decorative clear plastics and use grosgrain ribbons to tie the jars for a festive look. You can also line your gift box with grosgrain ribbons that is at least an inch wide and hang your gift tag at the bow. To give you a great accent for your gift box, you can even put a piece of peacock feather to pull in the package together.

If you cook, let us say pasta, and then you can cook your special sauce and buy a package of uncooked pasta and put it in a special wick basket together with a print out of the recipe of your special sauce. A bow made from grosgrain ribbon can add flair to any basket and it will add beauty to your gift.

The possibilities of giving gifts from your kitchen are endless. Even if you are not a formidable cook, you can still cook something or prepare something that will make the recipient of your gift feel that he or she is special because you gave a gift that came from your heart. You can just package it in a nice way by tying a grosgrain ribbon in the box and add a peacock feather or plastic flower or beads and that completes your gift from your kitchen to your friend’s home.