{"id":6235,"date":"2016-12-01T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2016-12-01T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:30:21","slug":"holiday-gift-ideas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=6235","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. Try making a local themed basket filled with handcrafted NW goods!<\/p>\n<p>First a Sweet Basket: local chocolate bars, honey, salted caramel and unique preserves, and cute little spoons to serve them up with. Don\u2019t forget to tuck in one of <a href=\"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/shop_fruitcake.html\">my \u201cOver 21\u201d Real Fruit Cakes made with Maker\u2019s Mark<\/a> \u2013 bourbon-soaked fruits and toasted nuts bound in a spice batter and topped with a brown sugar-bourbon glaze \u2013 yowza!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fruit-Cake-3-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"fruit-cake-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6221 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/227;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>A great basket or stocking stuffer \u2013 my \u201cOver 21\u201d Real Fruit Cakes made with Maker\u2019s Mark!<br \/>\nAvailable for purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/shop_fruitcake.html\">online<\/a> or bought at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathycasey.com\/driving_directions.html\">Food Studios<\/a> (Monday-Friday, 9 AM \u2013 5 PM)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next a Savory basket: local cheeses, cool pickles from the market, herbed flat bread, and dried fruits, add some fun cheese identification markers and a cool little wooden cutting board and it\u2019ll be a hit!<\/p>\n<p>For a Boozy Basket: package up a bottle of local spirit like one of our Washington herbaceous gins or Glass Honey Vodka (one of my faves), tuck in a couple of cool cocktail glasses, and a bottle of unique local bitters.<\/p>\n<p>For more inspiration, make sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/knackshops.com\/search?q=kathy+casey\">KnackShops.com<\/a> a local based custom gift side for even more creative basket ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t fret \u2013 get creative! -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. Try making a local themed basket filled with handcrafted NW goods! First a Sweet Basket: local chocolate bars, honey, salted caramel and unique preserves, and cute little spoons to serve them up with. Don\u2019t forget to tuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6221,"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":[5285,4920,622,1025,1295,3770,11441,859,9984,4922,7756,1444,1274,11442,11856,8034,1643,11443,11444,9985,11439,11440,1190,1573,293,11884,282,4095,3620,11865,11860,11445,11446,797,6604,980,325,983,3792,660,11857,11447,1034,7983,862],"class_list":{"0":"post-6235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","8":"tag-over-21-real-fruit-cakes-made-with-makers-mark","9":"tag-batter","10":"tag-bitters","11":"tag-bourbon","12":"tag-brown-sugar","13":"tag-cheeses","14":"tag-chocoate-bars","15":"tag-cocktail","16":"tag-cocktail-glasses","17":"tag-dried-fruits","18":"tag-flat-bread","19":"tag-food-studios","20":"tag-foodie","21":"tag-foodie-gift-ideas","22":"tag-foodie-news","23":"tag-fruitcakes","24":"tag-fruits","25":"tag-gift-baskets","26":"tag-gift-ideas","27":"tag-gins","28":"tag-glass-honey-vodka","29":"tag-glass-vodka","30":"tag-glasses","31":"tag-glaze","32":"tag-kathy-casey","34":"tag-kathy-casey-food-studios","35":"tag-komo-news","36":"tag-komo-news-radio","37":"tag-komo-radio","38":"tag-lifestyle","39":"tag-local-gifts","40":"tag-local-spirits","41":"tag-makers-mark","42":"tag-news-radio","43":"tag-northwest","44":"tag-nuts","45":"tag-pacific-northwest","46":"tag-pickles","47":"tag-preserves","48":"tag-recent","49":"tag-salted-caramels","50":"tag-spirits","51":"tag-toasted-nuts","52":"tag-vodka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","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=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}