If youre looking to give a personal yet unique gift for the holidays, try a gourmet gift basket for your special someone. Whether that person on your list is a friend, a family member or even just an acquaintance, theyll love receiving a gourmet gift basket. Gourmet food gift baskets can be filled with actual gourmet foods, they can be filled with spices and gourmet condiments and they can even be filled with gourmet cooking cook books. You could even fill your gourmet gift basket with all of the above. If the person youre making the gift basket for loves gourmet food, try to find out what they like, what they dont like and try to make the gourmet gift basket as tailored as possible towards what they love about gourmet food.
Cook Books
Some people love to cook but they dont always get to cook gourmet foods. Making gourmet meals is exciting because theyre foods you dont normally see everyday. Theyre more like something youd see in a fancy restaurant. When you make a gourmet meal, however, you get this sense of being a great chef; even if you cant cook in the slightest. A gourmet gift basket should include some kind of gourmet cook book or recipe cards. That way, the person receiving the gift basket can make their own gourmet foods, hopefully with the other things included in the basket.
One Meal Baskets
Another good idea is to include a single recipe card in the gourmet gift basket. Then, include all the ingredients the person will need for that recipe in the basket. The person can then just open the basket and get to work cooking up a great gourmet meal. Make sure that if youre going to do this you include foods that are non-perishable. This is so the food doesnt spoil in case the person doesnt open the gourmet gift basket for a while. One good idea is to include store coupons or gift certificates for those types of foods that just wont sit well in a gourmet gift basket for a long period of time.
Gourmet gift baskets are good for anyone who would love a gourmet meal. You can even include gourmet snacks, such as gourmet lunch meats and crackers. Anything you put in the basket that has to do with gourmet cooking will go over well as long as the recipient loves gourmet food.