For those who have been visiting our blog long enough, you’d probably know that we got very crafty in 2008, for Christmas gifts for loved ones. But unfortunately, this year we were low on both time and money, to really craft as much as we would have needed to for gifts. Still, we prefer to show our love to our loved ones at Christmas, with more hand-made sort of gifts, if we can. So we had the idea of sending some baked goods, and ready-to-go jars. It would be simple, inexpensive, yet appreciated we were sure. Who doesn’t love food…right?
So some jars we made up with most of the ingredients to make oatmeal raisin cookies. All they needed to add was the butter, egg and vanilla.
Most got a jar just like this, with the measured dry ingredients and directions. But we knew my 2 bachelor brothers, and my Dad, were not going to be baking anything. lol. So…..we baked theirs for them, and filled up the jar with the cookies.
We also gave some people the dry ingredients for this Curried Lentil Soup. What a big project THIS turned out to be. Because the recipe calls for red and yellow lentils. After visiting 6 stores all over town, over the course of a week, we settled for red and green.
Initially, we could only find tan, and made some soup ourselves to test the recipe. Not being lentil experts, we thought only the color was different. But ummm….not so much. We HOPE the red & green works out alright for everyone.
We also made bread loaves, and included those in most packages.
And donuts! : D
We got calls and messages from everyone, and they all seemed to really enjoy our Vittle gifts! We think they ‘tasted the love’. But one did tell us the bread and donuts were kind of hard when they arrived. Now….the bread crust is. You can knock on the loaf, but it’s soft on the inside. It makes excellent toast, it’s great for sandwiches, and it goes well with soup too.
But the donuts, being fried, we really weren’t sure HOW they would fair in shipping. So I guess they arrived….a little dense. Now, we take these things very seriously. So, we asked ourselves what we may have learned from that outcome, and this is what we came up with:
Don’t share our donuts anymore!! : D
It was really kind of difficult to give them away, anyway!!
Ha-ha-ha! Don’t give the donuts away! That’s funny! Hope you all had a blessed New Year.
We are in need of a few prayers if you have any to spare. Wednesday night a good friend’s dad was killed in a car accident. Last night the co-choir director and organist/pianist for our parish was in a horrible car accident 6 miles from our house. She’s not expected to make it.
Oh how heart-breaking Paula! : ( We certainly will. We always have prayers to spare.
These are gorgeous! I’d have been very blessed to have received a “homemade” gift such as this – and I wouldn’t have cared if the donuts were hard! LOL
Thanks Debbie!! My sister said she put her donut in the microwave and warmed it a little, and it was really good. But I can see how they might get a little firm over a couple of days I guess. Even Dunkin’ Donuts gets rid of their left-over donuts at the end of the day, right? lol