Fresh-Picked Seattle

Gifts from the Kitchen

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Recents Posts with Homemade Gift Ideas from the Seattle Food World

• Spiced Nuts & Recipe Calendars
• Cookies & Gift Bread Recipes by Seattle Food Bloggers
• Herbal Syrup with "Root Beer" Syrup Recipe from Herban Wellness
• Simple Gifts and Cowboy Cookies from Jennifer Worick
• Sweet Macadamiana Liqueur by A.J. Rathbun (with Bonus Limoncello Video!)
• Flavored Sugars from Herbivoracious & Urban Pantry
• Lime & Cardamom Rum from Cicchetti's Infusions Class

Other Resources

• The Cookie Decorating Shop in Ballard has more than 1000 cookie cutters!
• Here’s a report by Seattle Bon Vivant about Home Cake Decorating Supply Co. in North Seattle.
• Several of 2009 events featured author and pastry chef Julie Usher, whose book Cookie Swap was recently released.  Check out her book for more ideas.
• Several of the chocolate and confection events below are with Bill Fredericks. I have taken a Chocolate 101 class with him and I loved it!  I have not taken his confection classes, but based on how much I enjoyed the class I took, I can bet they are great. You can also order confection supplies from him at his site Chocolate Man.
• Excellent bulk chocolate can also be found at a good price at PFI.
• And here are some posts from my cooking blog Three-Bowls:
  • Link round-up for homemade gifts.
  • Desserts and gifts section of my blog.
  • Better baking on a budget.
  • Cookie recipe round-up.

This calendar contains events focused on gifts from the kitchen (in red) with some special FREE non-food gift craft events via Freeattle featured in blue. Because making homemade preserves (especially marmalades with winter citrus) is a great gift option, I'm also pulling in the events from the canning and preserving calendar (in yellow).