The Expensive-Looking Things I Put in the DIY Gourmet Gift Basket I Send to Friends
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Gift baskets are always a solid choice forholiday giving, but all those premade versions can be pricey and uninspired — and the basket is usually the first thing to get tossed. I love the sentiment, but not the execution.
Recently, I’ve taken to buying beautifully packaged and unusualpantry items— all on Prime, so no shipping! — and creating my own gift baskets for cheaper. I’ll nestle them in a boxzhuzhedup with some festive tissue for an easy gift box with extra personality. Each costs me 90-some dollars, but looks like I’ve spent twice as much. Below, everything I include in the custom gourmet gift baskets I make — I might switch it up a bit this year, but my recipients will just have to wait and see.Don’t miss all of the Strategist’s holiday gift coverageright here, too.
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This savory French whole-grain mustard in a gorgeous vintage stoneware pot looks like the sort of thing that’s been served at the tables of French kings since 1632. Because ithas.
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Addictive mouth-scorchinghot saucemade with red habanero (andblack coffee!) from a New York City-based, award-winning company.
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Rare, delicate white honey from a flower only found in Hawaii.
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Twice-roasted, interestingly-flavored “shnuts” are a peanut-free combination of almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, walnuts, pecans, and, macadamia nuts. Mother-and-son business Brooklyn Whatever also calls their version of the pickle a “shpickle” and an olive a “shmolive.”
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Who wouldn’t want a chunky round of stone-ground, 85 percent dark Mexican-style chocolate?
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Tiptree Black Currant Preserves
Small-batch preserves from a legacy English company. Black currant is my favorite, in an appealingly inky color.
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Bold, aptly named “Weak Knees” sriracha, bottled by hand. The addition of fermented gochujang gives it a more pungent, complex flavor — — not better, just different — than the rooster brand we’re all so familiar with.
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Addictive small-batch vanilla-cinnamon flavored bites from an organic Ojai Valley farm. Nobody doesn’t like this.
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La Española 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 24 fl. oz.
This light, flavorfulolive oilfrom Spain comes in an 1840 replica tin.
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