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Visit the Lavender, Herbs & More Website For FREE recipes & instructions for cooking with lavender & making lavender bath products & gifts |
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Want to save money on gift-giving? Why not try your hand at making a few gifts yourself? This year, instead of mass-produced store-bought items, give a few one-of-a-kind “gifts from the heart”. You’ll find a few free craft projects and recipes below that you can use to make your own unique gifts for the special people on your list. |
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View and share all the Fun Musical Greeting Cards featuring FREE Recipes from many of my books. |
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1 cup oatmeal 1/2 cup cornmeal 1/2 cup dried lavender buds
Process oatmeal in a food processor until finely ground. Add remaining ingredients and process until well blended. Store in an airtight container.
To Use: Fill a small draw-string muslin bag with about 2 tablespoons of the mixture. Place under faucet while running the water for your bath. You can also toss the bag into the bath water and rub it on your skin while bathing. |
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The Perfect Winter Gift: Soothing Lavender Bath Tea from Lavender Sensations |
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Lavender Sensations: Fragrant Herbs For Home & Bath
The fragrant flowers, soothing aroma and distinctive flavor of lavender make it the perfect herb for crafting products for personal, culinary and household use. This book includes more than 40 fun and easy to make projects for relaxing bath mixtures, stimulating beauty scrubs, stress reducing eye pillows, lavender soap, fragrant mug mats, closet fresheners, pomanders, sachets and delectable treats and mixes to give as gifts to friends and co-workers. Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, paperback, 60 pages, $6.95 |
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Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug® (Third Edition)
The new Third Edition of this cookbook has more than 100 single-serving mix recipes (20 new recipes added to those in the Second Edition) for desserts, breakfast treats & hot beverages that are prepared, cooked and served in the same mug in less than 5 minutes, like chocolate brownie, peach cobbler & pecan pie. Make them for unique, inexpensive gifts or for your own use. Fun cooking projects for kids. Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, Paperback, 120 pages. ISBN 978-0-9842438-1-5 $9.95
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Need a Quick House-Warming Gift? Make this Tasty Corn Chowder Mix For Two from: Quick Gifts From the Kitchen
6 tablespoons instant mashed potato flakes 2 tablespoons instant nonfat dry milk 2 teaspoons imitation bacon bits 2 teaspoons dried celery flakes
In a small bowl, combine all ingredients. Recipe makes about 2/3 cup of mix. Place in a small plastic zipper-type bag.
Additional ingredients: One (8 oz.) can cream style corn
To give as a gift, place plastic bag of mix inside a paper gift bag, along with the can of corn. Punch two holes about 1 inch apart near the top edge of the bag. Insert ribbon or raffia through the holes, with the ends extending out the front, attach cooking instruction tag and tie ribbon into a bow. |
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Express Your “Warm Regards” with this gift that makes a Mug of Snowman Soup A Delicious Mix From: Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug
1 cup instant nonfat dry milk 2/3 cup white chocolate baking chips 3 tablespoons vanilla flavor powdered coffee creamer
Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender and process until finely ground. Place mix in a small zipper-type bag. Recipe makes about 1-1/2 cups mix (about 4 servings).
To prepare: In a microwave-safe mug, microwave 1 cup of water on high power for 1 to 1-1/2 minutes or until hot. Stir in about 1/3 cup of mix. |
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Quick Gifts From the Kitchen: No Cooking Required
More than 50 recipes for mixes—no cooking required. Help cut your gift-giving budget with these inexpensive, handmade gifts. With tasty recipes like Orange Spice Cappuccino Mix, Cranberry Cornbread Muffin Mix, Chicken Tortilla Soup Mix and Chocolate-Cinnamon Popcorn Spice, you’ll find something for everyone on your list. Also includes a helpful guide for assembling gift baskets, plus directions for making fabric gift bags & decorating paper gift sacks to hold your mixes, creative ideas for packaging & cooking instruction tags to photocopy and cut out. Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, paperback, 72 pages. $6.95
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Click on the image at right to view & share a musical greeting card with Free Recipes from Quick Gifts From the Kitchen |
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Click on the image at right to view & share a musical greeting card with Free Recipes from Lavender Sensations |
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To give as a gift, place 1/3 cup of mix inside a small zipper-type bag. Place bag of mix inside a cellophane gift bag and tie the top closed with ribbon. Place inside a 12-ounce, microwave-safe mug. Write the cooking instructions on a small tag and attach it to the ribbon. Or write the instructions on a recipe card and tuck inside the mug with the mix. |
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1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules 1 teaspoon instant minced onion 1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt Dash of ground black pepper |
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To Prepare: Empty mix into a small saucepan. Add 1 cup of water, 2 teaspoons butter or margarine and one 8 oz. can of cream style corn. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover and simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Makes two servings. |
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1/4 cup dried rosemary 2 tablespoons powdered milk |
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For a gift, place several muslin draw-string bags of bath tea in a cellophane bag and tie closed with ribbon. Add instructions for use.
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