For those of you who love to bake, whipping up a couple dozen of five or six assorted types of cookies and boxing them with a attractive bow make a appetizing holiday gift for friends, family or yet your child’s teacher. Boost the gift up a level by adding some homemade candies.

Looking for a gift for those outdoorsy people, purchase a rather inexpensive picnic basket and add a bottle of wine, some cheeses and crackers with a small cheese cutting board and a couple of pretty wine glasses for a classic gift for two. They’ll remember your gift for years each time they use the items that were in the basket, who know you might receive a gift basket from them.

Clean and empty liquor bottles make for perfect gifts of flavored oils. Drop any combination of things like herbs, garlic, and hot peppers into the bottle; add oil and cap it with a cork or a pourer. A nice-looking bow throughout the bottle is all the gift-wrap you need. Most kitchen stores sell bottles of different shapes and sizes filled with all sorts of things, beans, peppers, herbs, pastas and oil that are strictly decorative for table center pieces or countertops decorations. You could easily create your own personalize present. An attractive gift bottle filled with colorful food items will add a decorative touch to their tables long after the holiday season is over.

Has a friend or family member ever let know you how much they they’re fond of a specific recipe of yours?  Look for a nice basket and fill it with all the ingredients to make the recipe they’re fond of, type the recipe out on a recipe card (they come plain and decorated), you can even find wire flower or butterfly shaped standing recipe card holders that you can add.

Then again, you can add candles and holders to use for a romantic dinner. You can layer mason jars with the dry ingredients for a favorite soup (the beans, rice, pasta, seasonings etc) everything except the meat and the water. Once more, you type up the cooking instructions, tie the jar with a bow and you are ready to go. A small square of gingham cloth placed on the jar opening before closing the lid adds a pretty touch.

If you like to add a personal affect (makes a magnificent anniversary gift for a couple you respect) you can use your computer software to make a certificate (or you can make it by hand) entitling the recipient of your gift to a meal cooked, served and cleaned up after, in their own home.  You go to their house with everything needed to cook the meal, serve it, clean up after yourself and leave while they enjoy a relaxing romantic dinner (or for someone you know well breakfast in bed served on trays complete with a rose in a bud vase and the morning paper).

If you’re not interested on the method, you can go online, get the setting for around $100, and get the fixings for a romantic steak and lobster dinner for two delivered and enjoy a romantic evening.