If you are looking for gifts for your holiday dinner hosts or for a family member who is putting you up during the holiday break, here are some suggestions.
From delicious treats to enjoy over the holidays to special gifts that your host will treasure for years to come, here are some of my favorite gift ideas.
Fastachi Cranberry Nut Mix
The Peaceful Pause Gift Box, a delicious blend of roasted nuts and dried cranberries, makes a great gift for your dinner hosts. Roasted at Fastachi in Watertown, Massachusetts, the blend of sesame peanuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, and other nuts provide the perfect complement to the tart cranberries.
Fastachi also makes other nut blends and chocolates, including the elegant Mix it Up Gift Tray shown in the top photo of this post (a generous selection of roasted nuts and dried fruits). When I’m in Watertown, I often stop at Fastachi to pick up some of their offerings. They are always a treat.
Lighthouse Box of Sweet Sloops Chocolate
Sweet Sloops, from Harbor Sweets in Salem, MA, is one of the company’s best selling chocolates. Designed to look like the little sailboats they are named after, they are made of mouth-watering toffee dipped in white chocolate to make the sail and dark chocolate dipped in chopped pecans to make the hull. They are delicious.
Potted Wintergreen
This beautiful Wintergreen Plant from White Flower Farm will brighten a room with its waxy green leaves and brilliant red berries. The leaves give off a minty fragrance when crushed. One of the nice things about this plant is that it can be transplanted into the garden in the spring. It comes in a cream colored or green glazed pot.
Cast Iron Fondue Pot
With winter around the corner, you’re sure to please your hosts with this beautiful red Cast Iron Fondue Pot
Throw in some cans of Sterno
Pewter Wine Coaster
If you are visiting someone for a longer stay and want to give a thoughtful thank you gift, this beautiful Pewter Wine Coaster might be just the thing. Made by Danforth Pewter in Middlebury, Vermont, it will protect tableclothes from stains and look elegant on the table.
You can get it engraved too.
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