Coming to visit with a bottle of wine is a rule of good form. Well, a bottle of fragrant homemade tincture will be a super gift! Your friends will appreciate it and will certainly ask for the recipe.
Time for preparing: 10 minutes
Infusion time: 2-5 daysSpicy tincture
1 bottle of vodka 0.75 l
3 cinnamon sticks
2 cm ginger root (chopped)
12 black peppercorns
10 cloves
10 cardamom pods (lightly crushed)
1 tsp honey
For citrus tincture
- 1 bottle of vodka 0.75 l
- 5 strips grapefruit zest
- 1 hot green pepper (finely chopped, seeds removed)
Tarragon tincture
1 bottle of vodka 0.75 l
1 medium cucumber (thinly sliced)
4 large sprigs of tarragon
For spicy tincture: Mix vodka, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, cloves and cardamom. Cover and let it brew for 3-5 days. Strain and bottle.
For citrus tincture: mix vodka with zest and hot pepper. Insist at least a day. Strain.
For tarragon tincture: mix vodka, cucumber and fresh tarragon. Let it brew for 3-5 days. Strain and bottle. Store tinctures for up to 2 months.
Delicious lemon cream
This cream can be served with buns or cookies, and can be used to fill sweet tartlets.
You will need:
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200 g granulated sugar
50 g butter
- Lightly beat the eggs with a fork and add to the saucepan. Add butter. Put the saucepan on a slow fire and, stirring constantly with a whisk, cook the cream until it thickens. Pour into jars and seal.
Grate a thin layer of zest from two lemons. Squeeze them all citrus juice, pour the saucepan, mix with sugar and zest.
Christmas tree cookies
Cook according to our recipe, thread ribbons through small holes (do them even before you send the cookies in the oven) and give your family an edible decoration for the Christmas tree!
candy sticks
On sticks, kids will love it. For decoration, use dragees, nuts, candied fruits, almond crumbs.
Home Nutella
Gift for chocolate lovers. easy to make at home, add your favorite flavors of cinnamon, vanilla or cardamom to it. And you can give it to a beautiful jar of jam.
Delicious tangerine jam
- an amazing delicacy with a New Year's flavor. A jar of tangerine jam can be a great addition to a New Year's gift. Jam turns out very tasty, with a slight sourness. This jam can be used for baking, as well as served well with pancakes or fresh buns for tea.
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Dear readers, until the New Year is left .... I can't even believe we're starting this countdown. Meanwhile, 20 days in total separate us from the New Year holiday. And the first question for all of us is: “What would you like to give to your loved ones for the New Year?”. So that everything is non-standard, creative, with soul, and at the same time economically. We always have a lot of relatives, friends, work colleagues, but the budget before the holiday does not always make us happy.
Let's not be sad. I already wrote about this on my blog. In the near future I will compile a selection for you, but for now I have wonderful, creative ideas for the New Year. You can see everything by clicking on this.
And now I want to offer you wonderful edible gifts from Daria Chernenko, the author of the wonderful site Menu of the week. Having visited Dasha, I am sure that many of us will become regular readers.
Usually I always introduce my guests. And today there will be a little intrigue. Subscribe to new blog articles at the end of the article, and in the near future you will probably learn something interesting from me.
I give the floor to Daria Chernenko. Meet the ideas of edible Christmas gifts. All links are active. If you are interested in something, you can find out all the details.
What to give for the New Year? Edible gifts.
First, I want to remind you of those recipes for edible gifts that are already on the site:
This year, I am adding to the piggy bank of edible gifts:
Tea mix
1 recipe:
100 grams of black tea
a few orange peels
4-5 cinnamon sticks
5-6 cardamom seeds
1-2 tablespoons of cloves
Orange peels should be cut into small pieces in advance and left for several days in the air until they are dried.
Grind the cinnamon, cardamom and cloves, wrap them in a clean towel and beat them with a hammer.
Mix spices, orange peels and tea.
2 recipe:
100 grams of green tea
a few orange peels
3-4 cinnamon sticks or a packet already ground
package of dried ginger.
Same with orange peels. Then tea, orange and spices are mixed.
Can be packed in a handmade package.
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It is prepared in a similar way - spices are mixed, beautifully packaged. You can stick a mulled wine recipe on a jar. Detailed recipe here.
Honey with dried fruits and nuts
Probably everyone has tried. Insanely delicious and easy to make.
You can take walnuts, almonds, cashews, white and black raisins, dried apricots, prunes. The quantity and composition of ingredients is limited only by imagination and wallet. The indicated composition is in every supermarket. The main ingredient is honey.
Cut large nuts into 2-3 parts (it will just be more convenient to eat), wash and dry dried fruits.
You can mix nuts and dried fruits, put in a jar and pour honey.
Can be laid out in layers: nuts, honey, dried fruits, honey and so on.
You can pour it into an ordinary jar, you can collect beautiful ones in advance.
Cookie mix in a jar
You can give cookies, or you can also the composition for its manufacture. Maybe it will be not only cookies, but a pie or a cupcake.
I took cookies that's why the recipe
Stacked in a jar in layers
Cereals
Flour
Sugar (you can take brown, it will look more beautiful in a jar)
Walnuts - 50 g (you can replace or add raisins, dried fruits, dried berries).
Instructions are attached to the jar, for example, the indicated recipe is as follows:
- Pour the entire contents of the jar into a large bowl.
- Add 80 grams of butter and 1 egg.
- Mix and knead a stiff dough.
- Roll the dough into a "sausage" and cut it across into slices 0.5 - 1 cm thick.
- Put the cookies on baking paper and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
Bonus: "Happy Jam" from Chocolate magazine
Everyone knows that bananas and chocolate lift your spirits. And bananas with chocolate can shame even Princess Nesmeyana. Give your friends a jar of banana jam for the New Year and the number of happy people will finally break all statistical records.
Happy Jam Ingredients:
Ten minutes
one phone
six bananas
one pear
one orange
a quarter of a lemon
half a kilo of sugar
five grams of gelatin
ten more minutes
white chocolate bar
So, take the first ten minutes and get started!
In a wide pot or pan with a thick bottom, cut bananas into thin circles. We rub the peeled pear on a coarse grater, and the orange zest on a fine grater. Squeeze the juice from a quarter of a lemon and a whole orange. We all fall asleep with sugar and take the phone.
Why do we need a phone? Well, how! In no case should you miss a unique chance to call everyone, everyone, everyone and casually, in a conversation, mention in the voice of the cat Matroskin: “I’m making jam here, yes.” Image is everything. Moreover, for the next two hours you will not need jam. After two hours we return to the jam.
Most girlish
Macarons in Ladurée Christmas boxes and Sonny Angel Christmas decorations
Iconic French patisserie Ladurée has a popular sweet gift option for all occasions - macaron cake sets. Suitable for gentle natures and for those who appreciate the form no less than the content - the brand's boxes are even collected, several collections are released a year. The French offer to celebrate Christmas and New Year 2017 with cakes packed in dark blue boxes, decorated with velvet pinkish-silver roses. 6 cakes are packed in a small, pencil case-shaped, 12 cakes in a large, mini-bag. violets - from 4 to 10 products to choose from. And again about the form, of course, also about the cult one: in Ladurée you can buy Christmas decorations from the Japanese company Sonny Angel. Toy baby dolls in hats in the form of Ladurée desserts are placed in transparent balls.
How: Pasta cakes in Christmas boxes, 1750 rub. for a box of 6 pcs., Christmas decorations Sonny Angel, 1650 rub. per piece, gift sets, from 7000 rubles.
The most Ukrainian
Basket with sausages, lard, pickles, jams and tinctures in "Shinok"
Blood sausages and lard, meat pates, mincemeat, pickles, marinades, jelly, home-made tinctures in branded bottles-damask - in "Shinok" they put everything in New Year's baskets, without which a serious feast of serious people is unthinkable. Each gift is collected for a specific customer, if desired, hot snacks can be added, such as a roasted duck or a whole leg of lamb. All this is packed not in a bulky rustling plastic bag, but in a real wicker basket with a lid, which looks elegant on its own, keeps heat and takes up little space.
How: From 3000 r.
The most mushroom
Mushroom gastronomy, alcohol and candy prepared with mushrooms at Mushrooms
Mushroom gastronomy in Mushrooms is not at all pates and pickles that you can cook yourself or, at worst, buy in almost any store. Here, truffle salt, bamboo mushroom salt, black chanterelle jam, truffle honey, truffle vodka (we expect it to be snapped up in the very first days) and - for the most daring and curious - fly agaric tinctures are put in New Year's baskets. All this was done in cooperation with the Mushroom Place project.
How: Small 100-gram jars of truffle salt, honey, etc. - an average of 400-500 rubles.
The most defiant
Candy sets at Chicha
Candy is trite? We do not agree. First, it's practical! Chocolate is always in place - unlike figurines collecting dust with regular symbols of the year. Secondly, chocolates from the Chicha restaurant are a mini-excursion to all areas of Peruvian cuisine. Chinese-Peruvian chifa is milk chocolate with orange and Chinese tea, Japanese-Peruvian nikkei is white chocolate with wasabi, and Creole is dark chocolate with coffee and chili. Finally, the box contains not cute sweets, but brutal chocolate skulls - it's hard not to remember such a gift.
How: A set of 9 sweets - 600 rubles.
The most Russian
Gingerbread boxes with marmalade, chocolates, marshmallows and gingerbread in "Myas"
The Meat steakhouse decided that the way to women's hearts is not through steaks, but through something more elegant and decorative, edible and, of course, sweet. The restaurant's confectioners came up with painted gingerbread boxes. We, frankly, regret that it was not made of meat, but how it happened. Two options turned out to be nostalgic, they were decorated with glaze and stylized as Gzhel and Khokhloma. The third is minimalistic, without patterns, but with white icing. In all boxes, as in gift sets from children's Christmas trees, they put raspberry or orange marmalade, truffles and fruit marshmallows of their own production. As well as the actual gingerbread, for a change - figured ginger. The box can be painted and filled according to your order.
How: Sets - from 1000 rubles.
The most delicious
Baskets of pâtés, riettes, baguettes, cakes, jams and champagnes at the Brasserie Most
Foie gras, handmade cakes, champagne or red wine to impress, and, among other things, sweets, fruits, honey, tea and jam with cherries and cinnamon, strawberries and mint are unobtrusive little things that can be used in any home. The content of the basket depends on the desire of the customer and the amount he is willing to spend.
How: Sets - from 10,000 rubles.
The most unpredictable
Box of "Local food" with products
Boxes of "Local food" are filled with original and tasty products from not yet promoted manufacturers from all over Russia. Most of these products cannot be found in regular supermarkets. Each product is unique - made by the hands of people who love what they do. The box from Local Food is, firstly, support for local producers, and secondly, it is a way to be one of the first to learn about new interesting products (for example, borscht in tubes, figs or cream honey). Each according to his needs: there are boxes with jams and sauces (5-9 jars), with sweets (4-5 products: artisan chocolate, cranberries in sugar or biscuits) and a box of the month (6-7 new products). Wine, biscuits, jerky beef, gingerbread, sweets and other products that inspire a festive mood are placed in a special New Year's box. You can put an inscription or logo on the box - this is how they propose to solve the issue of corporate gifts.
How: Sets - from 1200 rubles.
Most versatile
Various New Year sweets in Volkonsky
Strictly speaking, adults also love jam, chocolate and marzipans, but children will definitely be especially interested in festive figurines made of chocolate or nut mass. Not to mention a whole gingerbread house and a tree of macaroni cakes - the pastry chain prepares these things every year traditionally around Christmas and New Year. Unlike store-bought options, the sweet real estate here is made entirely from natural ingredients. On New Year's Eve, bakeries will bake traditional French puff pastry and almond galette de roi and a Christmas log.
How: Gingerbread houses, from 990 rubles, Christmas tree made of pasta cakes, 1400 rubles, marzipan figurines, from 350 rubles, jam, from 390 rubles, gingerbread, from 140 rubles.
The most table
Food for the New Year's table from "Honest Kitchen"
In the restaurant of chef Sergey Eroshenko, they decided to fill the empty culinary niche with solid meat, fish and game dishes for the festive time. From the "Honest Kitchen" you can take away and put in the center of the home table a sterlet (Volga, smoked on apple branches, or whole, baked in a Russian oven), a Dagestan lamb shoulder baked with rosemary and garlic, a whole suckling pig, a deer leg, and even, against all New Year's signs, kashira rooster shish kebab. Olivier and jelly are playing for New Year's classics, but not simple ones: the main New Year's Eve salad is prepared with king crab meat, and jelly is made from three types of game. Also on the menu are relatively inexpensive pies (760 rubles with roe deer on an onion cream pillow with sweet dates and smoked cheese), meat delicacies, and salads.
How: New Year's cooking: a whole sterlet baked in a Russian oven, 3000 r. per 1 kg, lamb cooked on a spit, 1800 rub. for 1 kg, olivier with king crab meat, 5000 r. for 1 kg, jelly from three types of game, 2700 r. for 1 kg.
Most romantic
Baskets with sweets confectionery "Pushkin"
Decorative baskets with sweet little things (pasta cakes, truffles, marshmallows, cookies, honey, chocolate, marmalade, caramel, gingerbread, nuts and dried fruits) and alcohol: champagne, cognac and wines with famous names - the perfect set if you celebrate the New Year together for the first time, and maybe even met quite recently. In addition, a chocolate figurine of a rooster and New Year's toys are placed in New Year's sets.
How: Baskets with confectionery - from 5000 rubles.
Autumn is not only a time for summing up and gradual. This is also the right moment to think about the pleasant - about the future! Why so early? Because they give for the New Year. And if you want to prepare special gifts for family and friends, it's time to start preparing them. After all, for this you will need the gifts of your garden, which you need to harvest right now. We have already talked about how to use . And this time we will make edible gifts out of it.
An edible gift is not just a culinary dish, even if it is decoratively decorated. This is an author's thing in an unusual, and sometimes very tasty package! If you combine cooking and decoration, you can create delicious and beautiful presents for your loved ones. And they, no doubt, will cause a sea of delight, and you will show a special attitude towards the person to whom you give them.
They usually do not require costs, since everything is made from their “raw materials”. The maximum that you can spend (if you need to buy some small decor or a simple product - for example, a piece of cheese) is 200-300 rubles. What foods can be used to make edible gifts? In fact, of any, but the best options are - that is, what grows in your country house: no exotic, and you don’t need to buy almost anything. Some will need to be laid on to be used fresh, and some -. With fresh storage, everything is clear, but the process of making gifts from dried vegetables, fruits and herbs has its own characteristics:
- Firstly, it is 80% handmade, there is a minimum of devices. Scissors, a curly grater, needles, threads, braid, ribbons, beads and similar decor are the main ones. And in addition - acrylic paints, sparkles, colored decorative contours (in special cases).
- Secondly, the production of such gifts should begin at a stage when vegetables, fruits and herbs are still fresh and we can process them. Vegetables, for example, figuredly cut. Or make blanks for weaving from them and then weave various cute figures. You can also weave from spicy herbs. In addition, balls, small bouquets and "nests", rings and spirals can be made from them. Fruits can be strung like beads, made from them, made candy and. There are a lot of ideas here, such is the material!
1. Soup set in a "matryoshka"
Bright, elegant and stylish "thing" in the Russian style. Such a "matryoshka" is a spectacular gift and an excellent decoration for the kitchen, just put it on a shelf in a prominent place.And what a taste and aroma of the filling! It is made in the form of "pupae", which are woven from dried vegetables and fragrant herbs. I want to immediately start “conjuring” at the stove.
Packaging for a soup set in the form of nesting dolls
You will need:- Small pear shaped pumpkin
- simple pencil
- Decorative acrylic paints in different colors
- Synthetic brushes
- Cut off the top third of the pumpkin, holding the knife at a slight angle. This is done so that the "lid" is tightly put on the main part.
- Using a sharp knife, carefully cut out the contents of both parts of the pumpkin (if the pumpkin is edible, you can use the pulp in other dishes).
- Dry both prepared parts slightly. Put them together again and, holding them with your hand so that they do not move, draw the outlines of the matryoshka on the surface with a simple pencil.
- Paint the whole "matryoshka" with bright colors, dry well for 3-4 hours. The original packaging is ready!
Wicker "dolls" for vegetable and herb soup
You will need:- Various vegetables: carrots, celery, turnips, parsley, green onions, pumpkin and others to your taste
- Fragrant herbs: dill, parsley, lovage, tarragon, hyssop, etc., also to taste
- Small sharp knife
- small scissors
Operating procedure:
- Cut vegetables into very thin strips. Divide the greens into separate branches of a suitable length.
- Using green onion feathers and fragrant herb stalks, tie chopped strips of vegetables and sprigs of greens into small bunches of different sizes, and then tie these bunches together so that you get conditional figures resembling straw “pupas”.
- Dry all the resulting figures in a cooling oven or in.
- Fill the painted "matryoshka" of pumpkin with fragrant "dolls" of dried vegetables and herbs. Additionally, this gift can be tied with a bright ribbon or put in a small one.
If you did not find a suitable one, do not be discouraged. There are many decorative types and original forms. What if they inspire you with new ideas, and you want to plant them next season? You can get acquainted with them by viewing the articles:
2. Pickles in a pumpkin barrel
Is it possible to donate? Yes, and it's a great gift. Only you need to give them not at the bank. Try this original option - present them in a stylish "barrel" of a bright pumpkin. Everyone will be just delighted!
Pumpkins of those varieties that have pronounced lateral embossed “stripes” are best suited for this: after all, they should look like a real wooden barrel. Of course, the pumpkin should be ripe and bright - yellow or orange. Articles and will help you prepare the perfect material for the "barrel" and not only.
You will need:
- Small pumpkin (no more than 3 kg).
- Suede braid
- Carnation buttons
- Various homemade preparations and pickles: sauerkraut, pickles and mushrooms, pickled peppers and garlic.
- Cut off a small “lid” from the top of the pumpkin, and then carefully remove the pulp with seeds with a knife and a spoon. It can be left for making casseroles, porridge or pancakes.
- With a pencil, draw “ears” on the pumpkin, they should stand out. With a sharp knife, cut out the profile of the barrel with handles along the pencil lines. On the "handles" make round holes.
- Now our barrel needs "hoops". Make them with dark brown or rust colored suede webbing. Attach it with stud studs: they will mimic the rivets that are usually attached to hoops on real barrels.
- Instead of a rope, insert a leek stalk twisted with a tourniquet into the holes on the handles.
3. "Evening bag" of grapefruit, trimmed with lace
Doesn't it look like a real evening bag, moreover, stylish and sophisticated? It contains, and, but it can also contain dried berries and fruits from your site, and even jewelry.
And you can hang such a handbag on. Great gift!
You will need:
- 1 large grapefruit, preferably slightly elongated
- 1 tangerine
- small knife
- Scissors
- PVA glue
- Lace trim or lace-like vinyl doily
- Old "pearl" beads or a set of such beads
- Using a sharp knife, cut off the "cap" from the grapefruit, and then, using a knife and a spoon, carefully remove the pulp.
- Draw on the peel the profile of the bag with V-shaped cutouts and round holes for the handle.
- Carefully cut out the bag with small scissors, cut holes. Dry the workpiece well on the battery for 2 weeks. It should become hard to the touch.
- Cut the desired amount of lace braid and glue it with PVA glue to the inside of the bag. If you have a vinyl doily, pre-cut a lace border from it, and then glue it.
- Decorate the product with a “lock” - in this case it is a “flower” cut from a tangerine peel and then dried. Pass the string of beads through the side holes of the bag and tie.
4. Wicker bag of leek with soup balls
It looks like a gift, this bright and very appetizing bag! Especially when you consider that its contents are cheese balls with onions for quick and easy preparation of a very tasty soup, to which you can add the “material” of the bag itself -.Pouch of leeks
You will need:- 3-4 "legs" of fresh leeks
- Satin ribbon and fresh flowers for decoration
- Rinse the onion and separate it into individual leaves. Lay out a vertical row of these leaves on the table, focusing on the desired size of the future bag.
- Now take the rest of the leek leaves one at a time and interlace them with this "base". This is done very simply: you kind of weave a “basket”, the weaving is flat, you don’t need to twist the leaves.
- As a result, you will get a square "mat". In it you will need to wrap the filling - soup balls.
Soup cheese balls with onions
You will need:
- 150 g of hard cheese ("Russian" or "Poshekhonsky")
- 150 gr processed cheese "Friendship"
- 1 medium onion
- cumin - to taste
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- Grate cheese and mix with mashed processed cheese, finely grated onion and spices. Form walnut-sized balls from the resulting mass and decorate their surface with cumin and paprika.
- Put all the cooked balls on the leek "mat", grasp the ends of the "rug", connect them, you will get a "knot" bag. Tie it with a satin ribbon and decorate with a small bouquet of fresh flowers or.
- To prepare soup, it is enough to put 2-3 balls into boiling water and boil for 2 minutes. You can add a few rings of leek and fresh.
5. Korean style zucchini salad bowl with carrot salad
Dishes are also a gift, even if they are edible. Here is an unusual vegetable flower that will bloom on the table of the one to whom you give this salad bowl. and juicy crispy made an interesting artistic composition. The warm color palette of the vegetables matches the equally "warm" and "energetic" taste of this appetizer that is sure to please everyone.You will need:
- 1 medium sized fresh zucchini
- sharp knife
- spoon
- small scissors
- Wash the zucchini, dry it on a towel, but do not peel it. Cut in half across. For a salad bowl, you will need one half, and the second will be needed to make a salad. Peel half of the zucchini from the top 2/3.
- From the top of the peeled part of the zucchini, cut off a small “lid”, and then cut and remove the core. Not too much: the walls of the salad bowl should not be too thin. "Refine" its inside with a spoon.
- Just below the cut line of the peel, around the perimeter, make a series of small holes for subsequent decoration.
- “Petals” start cutting from the bottom of the salad bowl. Working in a circular motion, cut a thin layer of flesh, starting just above the cut line of the peel and ending just at this line. After cutting the flesh in a small area, bend it, cut it with small scissors to give it a rounded shape, and then bend it into a “petal” shape. After that, move on to the next section.
- Cut out the next tier of “petals” in the same way, moving in a circle, only it will be located higher, above the first tier. In total, you need to make 3-4 tiers. Do not bend the "petals" of the last, highest tier (near the hole).
- Thread a “ribbon” cut from a long carrot root through the holes in the bottom of the salad bowl.
Korean carrot salad
You will need:- 200 gr zucchini
- 2 large root carrots
- 100 gr asparagus
- 1/2 tsp. spoons of red pepper
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 teaspoon tablespoon table vinegar (not apple cider vinegar)
- 100 gr vegetable oil
- Cut the zucchini and carrots separately into long "ribbons" or strips. Cut the asparagus into chunks.
- Salt the chopped carrots, let stand for about 20 minutes, then lightly squeeze the juice. Place carrots in a separate bowl.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, pour it into a deep ceramic bowl, add red pepper and mix. Let it brew for 2-3 minutes.
- Pour the oil into a bowl with chopped carrots, mix well. Then add crushed garlic, vinegar and mix again. Let the mixture sit for 20-30 minutes. Carrots in Korean are ready.
6. A basket with a curly soup set
It is very nice to receive such a basket as a gift, because you can’t buy anything like this in a store. Its contents make a very tasty soup, but that's not all. This set will decorate any kitchen like any accessory.You will need:
- small decorative basket
- Fresh vegetables: carrots, leeks, beets, potatoes, parsley, turnips, celery
- Any greens
- Small sharp knife and nail scissors
- Slice carrots and leeks into long, thin strips. Give these strips a little "twist" and braid them around the basket along with the handle.
- Now cut all the vegetables you have into wider and shorter strips. These will be blanks for vegetable figurines.
- From the greens of the leek and root crops, cut out “leaves” and geometric shapes with nail scissors.
- To make "flowers", cut the vegetable strips into a fringe, and then fold it into spirals. You will get figures that look like inflorescences of daisies or asters. Roll the remaining vegetable strips into small balls.
- Lay out all the figures on a metal grid or on a baking sheet, add finely chopped greens and dry in the oven, or better, in a special vegetable dryer. Dry the basket in the same way.
7. Knitted cheese bag with homemade potato cookies
This stylish handbag is actually made of cheese. She is not only beautiful, but also very tasty. And what cookies are in it - you will lick your fingers! Tender, salty, it is excellent both in itself and in quality. It can also be used as a side dish for many dishes.Knitted cheese bag
Chechil is a very strong and elastic cheese, so it is perfect for knitting and crocheting fantasies. Just think of it as a fancy knitting cord or fancy yarn."You will need:
- 2-3 packs of chechil cheese
- Knitting needles number 6, 7 or 8
- Type on the spokes the required number of loops, based on the desired size of the handbag.
- Knit the panel of the handbag with the front stitch, alternating the front and back rows.
- Fasten the side seams of the bag with cheese threads, and twist the handle from two such threads in the form of a cord. Attach the handle to the bag with knots, fluff the ends of the cheese strands so that you get “tassels”.
Homemade potato biscuits
You will need:- 150 gr flour
- 200 gr mashed potatoes
- 100 gr cheese
- 50 gr carrots
- 2 raw eggs
- 1 teaspoon a spoonful of salt
- Corn flakes for breading
- Prepare mashed potatoes, grate the cheese on a fine grater. Finely grate fresh carrots and squeeze the juice lightly.
- Put the mashed potatoes, grated cheese and carrots in a bowl, salt, beat in one raw egg, and then add the flour.
- Mix all the ingredients well and knead the dough. Divide it into small pieces and arrange them in the form of flat sticks or "sticks".
- Lightly grind the corn flakes by hand, breading should not be too fine.
- Dip each "stick" in a beaten egg, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in a well-heated frying pan until cooked.
What could be better than snuggling up to your loved one and wrapping yourself in a blanket, drinking spicy-honey fragrant tea? To while away winter evenings in this way, give your husband Ceylon and citrus zest. You can brew it in a thermos and take it with you to work. A hot drink will warm you up, and ginger and lemon will protect your loved one from a cold. You can complement this gift with "" for real men.
2. Recognition in the bank
Sweet declaration of love to wife "I love you" are the main words in a woman's life. Say them to your wives more often! And sometimes even words are not needed for recognition. Juicy will say everything for you. You will not only sweeten the life of your beloved, but also make it even more beautiful. After all, the composition of the product includes agar-agar, which has a beneficial effect on the condition of hair and nails. And as an additional surprise, hang a candy with "" on the Christmas tree.
3. Set for lollipops
Lollipop form If your wife is a good hostess, loves to surprise households and guests with goodies, then give her blanks for making lollipops. Such as in childhood! Remember? Cooking roosters can be a fun activity to do together: dad makes syrup, mom greases the mold, kids put sticks in. And then branded family lollipops can be given away to friends for the New Year.
4. Game for lovers
Game for lovers If you are not yet married, put something bright and mischievous under the tree for your significant other. For example, . There will be something to do on New Year's Eve if you celebrate the holiday together. By moving around the playing field and completing tasks from the cards, you can demonstrate how much you love each other. And the treats included in the set will make the game not only exciting, but also sweet, like a kiss.
5. A real letter from a real Santa Claus
New Year's message from the main magician of the holiday Writing letters to Santa Claus is a wonderful New Year's tradition. It instills in children a sense of responsibility (“Did I behave well this year?”) And develops creativity (you must put a picture in the envelope). But imagine how much delight the child will have if he receives an answer to his message! A real one with a stamp and a stamp from Veliky Ustyug on a colorful letterhead - from the real Santa Claus, because only a magician could find out the name of the baby! ;)
6. Christmas candy
New Year's lollipops During the New Year holidays, we often go to visit. And in almost every house we are met by children, you will not come empty-handed. The solution to the problem is to buy bright New Year's candies, for example, or, and give them to the children of friends, colleagues, or just neighbor kids. There is a large selection on the Tasty Help website: different tastes, shapes and colors.
7. Children's board game "Marmeville"
Board game for children from 3 to 9 years old Children love games, especially if they are delicious. "" is a fabulous country where candy monsters live. They are terrible inventors, love to jump and have fun. Going on an adventure with candy monsters, your kids will develop counting skills, speech, fine motor skills and imagination. The game also helps to make friends and teaches to share sweets.
8. Sweet gift set
Sweet gift for a child What is the New Year without a sweet present? Standard candy sets will be given to children in a kindergarten or school, but you show originality. The composition includes various chewable dragees, marmalade and peanuts. Each type in a separate package. If the baby is sad, we take pills "for a good mood." If the child is to perform at a matinee, vitamins “for success” will be used. And if the children do not obey, we open a jar "for patience" and eat marmalade ourselves. :)
9. Delicious gifts for mom and dad
Goodies for mom and dad Parents are the most precious thing in life. You need to take care of them throughout the year. And on the eve of the holiday, give them a jar of "delicious help." - with fruit soufflé in sugar sprinkles, and - with cola-flavoured chewing sweets. Tender words are written on the banks that you may never have said out loud: “Mom, only you are always waiting for my call”, “If they ask me whose dad is the best in the world, I will answer - mine!”.
10. Sweet Christmas decorations
Original Christmas tree decorations Decorating the Christmas tree with the whole family is a wonderful New Year's Eve tradition. Christmas decorations are usually collected over the years and passed down from generation to generation. But you can add variety to the usual decoration of the green beauty. Unusual decorations will help in this. Various goodies are “hidden” in transparent voluminous Christmas trees: and.
11. Set "This is our house"
Cookies for family tea parties 19. "Anti-crisis suitcase" for the boss
Crisis recovery kit Have you ever heard from the boss's office: "Am I printing money?" or “I got this crisis!”? Surely yes. Give your manager a comic one, which includes a “money printing machine” with instructions, sweet motivators, a “happy” ruble, Anti-Crisis caramel and cookies for office coffee breaks. Laugh heartily and, who knows, suddenly get a bonus or promotion. ;)
20. Set "We are a team"
Cookies for colleagues
