{"id":4544,"date":"2013-12-12T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2013-12-12T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:59:09","slug":"holiday-gift-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Gift Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are right around the corner and I have a few d\u2019lish ideas for your favorite foodie \u2013 a local themed basket filled with handcrafted Pacific Northwest goodies!<\/p>\n<p><strong>First off, a Sweet Basket: <\/strong>local chocolate bars (I love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franschocolates.com\/store\/home.php?cat=21\">Fran&#8217;s Chocolate Gold Bars<\/a>), neighborhood honey like <a href=\"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/shop_honey.html\">5130 Honey<\/a> , salted caramel (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theochocolate.com\/caramels\">Theo&#8217;s Chocolates&#8217; caramel collection<\/a> are wonderful), and unique preserves (we will have lots like Apricot &amp; Rose Geranium and Clementine Ginger Marmalade at our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/\">Holiday Extravaganza<\/a>),\u00a0and cute little spoons to serve them up with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, a Savory Basket:<\/strong> local cheeses, cool pickles, herbed flat bread and crackers (<a href=\"http:\/\/essentialbaking.com\/ebc_product_type\/crackers\/\">Essential Baking Company<\/a> has a great selection!), and dried fruits, with fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crateandbarrel.com\/set-of-6-cheese-markers\/s135112\">cheese identification markers<\/a> for your fromage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a Boozy Basket: <\/strong><strong>p<\/strong>ackage a bottle of local spirit like one of our Washington herbaceous gins or white whiskeys to age yourself (like this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodinvillewhiskeyco.com\/products\/age-your-own-whiskey-kit\/\">Woodinville Whiskey Co.<\/a>), tuck in a couple of cool cocktail glasses, a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/shop_fun.html\">unique local bitters<\/a> and your favorite cocktail book \u2013 maybe even my Sips and Apps (75% off special deal on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/ebook-deals\">ebook versions<\/a>!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3733\/11328348633_7c0079fa5e_m.jpg\" alt=\"sign2\" width=\"190\" height=\"160\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/160;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget!\u00a0 This Saturday, December 14<sup>th<\/sup> is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/\"><strong>Holiday Extravaganza &amp; Open House<\/strong><\/a> at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\">Food Studios in Ballard<\/a> from 11AM to 7Pm. Stop by and stock up on great holiday gifts and have a sip and nibble of something d\u2019lish! -Kathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are right around the corner and I have a few d\u2019lish ideas for your favorite foodie \u2013 a local themed basket filled with handcrafted Pacific Northwest goodies! First off, a Sweet Basket: local chocolate bars (I love Fran&#8217;s Chocolate Gold Bars), neighborhood honey like 5130 Honey , salted caramel (Theo&#8217;s Chocolates&#8217; caramel collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[644,9973,44,622,9974,1186,1111,9982,3770,75,9948,9983,6023,168,2003,9975,859,3236,9984,11855,7,6232,1187,1976,1458,7933,4922,2987,508,9976,11880,7756,11856,331,1354,1643,3438,2096,309,1296,9985,1191,9986,1151,1848,4848,218,9977,815,803,909,658,3028,293,4095,3620,11865,11860,1116,6604,3932,1431,981,983,659,3792,3972,660,11857,7560,466,4349,2843,9978,532,340,3239,1201,9979,9980,1005,4116,888,3553,9981],"class_list":{"0":"post-4544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","7":"tag-apricot","8":"tag-apricot-rose-geranium","9":"tag-ballard","10":"tag-bitters","11":"tag-boozy-basket","12":"tag-caramel","13":"tag-cheese","14":"tag-cheese-identification-markers","15":"tag-cheeses","16":"tag-chocolate","17":"tag-chocolate-bar","18":"tag-chocolate-bars","19":"tag-chocolates","20":"tag-chronicle-books","21":"tag-clementine","22":"tag-clementine-ginger-marmalade","23":"tag-cocktail","24":"tag-cocktail-glass","25":"tag-cocktail-glasses","26":"tag-cocktails","28":"tag-cracker","29":"tag-crackers","30":"tag-december","31":"tag-dried","32":"tag-dried-fruit","33":"tag-dried-fruits","34":"tag-drink","35":"tag-drinks","36":"tag-essential-baking-company","37":"tag-events","38":"tag-flat-bread","39":"tag-foodie-news","40":"tag-frans-chocolate","41":"tag-fruit","42":"tag-fruits","43":"tag-gift","44":"tag-gifts","45":"tag-gin","46":"tag-ginger","47":"tag-gins","48":"tag-herb","49":"tag-herbed-flat-bread","50":"tag-herbs","51":"tag-holiday","52":"tag-holiday-extravaganza","53":"tag-holiday-gift","54":"tag-holiday-gift-ideas","55":"tag-holiday-gifts","56":"tag-holidays","57":"tag-honey","58":"tag-jam","59":"tag-jams","60":"tag-kathy-casey","61":"tag-komo-news","62":"tag-komo-news-radio","63":"tag-komo-radio","64":"tag-lifestyle","65":"tag-local","66":"tag-news-radio","67":"tag-north","68":"tag-open-house","69":"tag-pacific","70":"tag-pacific-northwest","71":"tag-pickle","72":"tag-pickles","73":"tag-preserve","74":"tag-preserves","75":"tag-recent","76":"tag-rose-geranium","77":"tag-salt","78":"tag-salted-caramel","79":"tag-saturday","80":"tag-savory-basket","81":"tag-seattle","82":"tag-sips-apps","83":"tag-spoon","84":"tag-spoons","85":"tag-sweet-basket","86":"tag-theos-chocolates","87":"tag-washington","88":"tag-west","89":"tag-whiskey","90":"tag-whiskies","91":"tag-woodinville-whiskey-co"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}