This year I wanted to share some homemade gifts with people for christmas. I think homemade gifts are so much more personal. I also love edible gifts, because lets face it most of us have enough things and many gifts sit in a closet somewhere never to be worn or used.
The idea came from the plethora of hot peppers I grew this year. I planted so many hot peppers knowing I wanted to make hot sauce, but I didn't realize just how much hot sauce I'd be able to make with that many peppers. After making the first batch and seeing how far a handful of peppers went I knew I would have more than I could ever need. So I decided that I would give nice hot sauce bottles away for presents. This hot sauce is a sweet habenero hot sauce. It's not too spicy so its great for coating chicken strips or wings in (yum!). I also dried many of the cayenne peppers and made my own chill powder and crushed chili flakes. The crushed chili flakes are in the jar near my finger in the picture (doh!) inside the jar is also a tiny ziplock with the chili powder. I have been using the chili powder like crazy, adding extra heat to almost everything I make; pasta, chili, chicken, soup, etc.
GMF and I also started brewing our own beer in 2013 so we wanted to share this others. In the gift package was one of each of our batches - A cream ale (our first beer, and my go to), a raspberry wheat, a apricot wheat, and an extra special bitter (ESB). I created labels for the beers with just my printer and some avery labels (won't hold up to a cooler full of ice, but does the trick in a pinch). I also covered the 6 pack box in decoupaged craft paper and a printed label. I've named our brewery compass Brewing company for now but we are still looking for a permanent name. What do you think of compass Brewing co?
Did you give away any homemade gifts this season? I'd love to hear about them, tell me about them in the comments or write a link to your blog.
I hope everyone is having a great holiday with their family and friends.
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