One of the best things about an Independence Day picnic is the freedom to snack generously before the meal. Indulge your guests with this appetizer recipe featuring our favorite hot sauce from Danny Cash. Make sure to have plenty of chips on hand!
FIREATER Dip by Lee Cichon
Melt 1 lb of Velveeta cheese in a crock pot.
Add any of Danny Cash's hot sauces liberally.
Add 1/2 lb of cooked ground beef, sliced olives and diced tomatoes.
Eat with tortilla chips, pretzels or flour tortilla wedges. Awesome!
This dip travels easily in a crock pot or plastic container and makes a perfect addition to any picnic or potluck. For an extra special hostess gift that sizzles, we'll include a bottle of Danny Cash's hot sauce in any of our 4th of July gift baskets: Scorch the Porch, Summer BBQ Basket, Summer Picnic Basket.
Ask about customizing your 4th of July gift basket with our: Spicy Cheese Popcorn, Pasta Salad Kits, BBQ Sauce, Meat Rubs, Chili’s and Cherries Dark Chocolate, Cookies, Lemonade, Iced Tea, BBQ utensils, BBQ Recipe books and more.
In celebration of the holiday, shipping is free--as are we all. Happy 4th of July!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Last Minute Father's Day Gift Basket Ideas
Bringing Up Father
When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have
the old man around.
But when I got to be 21,
I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain
Show Dad how much you've learned in the last few years. Get him something out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary with a useful and decadent Father's Day gift basket custom designed just for him!
Baskets for all occasions and all flavors of Dads!
No matter what hobby your Dad is into--fishing, boating, cycling, BBQing, hiking, hunting, golfing, skiing, relaxing, poker, fitness, sports--we've got a Father's Day basket that will surprise and delight. Don't see your Dad's passion listed here? Call! We'll customize it--soup to nuts, container to contents.
Forget the perfunctory tie or generic gift card. It's never too late! Order a Father's Day gift basket that'll keep him smiling beyond the day and through-out the year.
When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have
the old man around.
But when I got to be 21,
I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain
Show Dad how much you've learned in the last few years. Get him something out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary with a useful and decadent Father's Day gift basket custom designed just for him!
Baskets for all occasions and all flavors of Dads!
No matter what hobby your Dad is into--fishing, boating, cycling, BBQing, hiking, hunting, golfing, skiing, relaxing, poker, fitness, sports--we've got a Father's Day basket that will surprise and delight. Don't see your Dad's passion listed here? Call! We'll customize it--soup to nuts, container to contents.
Forget the perfunctory tie or generic gift card. It's never too late! Order a Father's Day gift basket that'll keep him smiling beyond the day and through-out the year.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Graduation Inspiration: Send Your Grad Off On Their Next Great Adventure
It's Graduation time and that means commencement ceremonies, inspirational speeches, family celebrations, and-once the festivities are over--questions of the future. At this time, when we acknowledge the best in each of our graduates, Cachet Baskets offers one of our favorite quotes on going forward and living your best life. Originally brought to fame when delivered by Nelson Mandela, it is an excerpt from Marianne Williamson's book "A Return to Love" and gives your graduate permission to embrace their future.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Help your graduate shine; put them firmly upon the path to success. And just to remind them how much you love them, and of your unconditional love and support, send them off on their next adventure with a gift as unique as they are--a graduation gift basket from Cachet Baskets. We'll customize it for your one-of-a-kind graduate.
Congratulations graduates! And happy trails!
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Help your graduate shine; put them firmly upon the path to success. And just to remind them how much you love them, and of your unconditional love and support, send them off on their next adventure with a gift as unique as they are--a graduation gift basket from Cachet Baskets. We'll customize it for your one-of-a-kind graduate.
Congratulations graduates! And happy trails!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
A Mother's Day Story by Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck on A Mother's Love
We all know that being a Mom is the hardest, most rewarding job on the face of this Earth.
"You don't love me!"
How many times have your kids laid that one on you?
And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them how much?
Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them...
* I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home.
* I loved you enough to insist you buy a bike with your own money, which we could afford, and you couldn't.
* I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your hand picked friend was a creep.
* I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your bedroom, a job that would have taken me 15 minutes.
* I loved you enough to say, "Yes, you can go to Disney World on Mother's Day."
* I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust, and tears in my eyes.
* I loved you enough not to make excuses for your lack of respect or your bad manners.
* I loved you enough to admit that I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness.
* I loved you enough to ignore "what every other mother" did or said.
* I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.
* I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your own actions, at 6, 10, or 16.
* I loved you enough to figure you would lie about the party being chaperoned, but forgave you for it...after discovering I was right.
* I loved you enough to shove you off my lap, let go of your hand, be mute to your pleas and insensitive to your demands...so that you had to stand alone.
* I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, and not what I wanted you to be.
* But most of all, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.
Erma Bombeck
For all those times your mother "loved you enough," send a fabulous, heart-warming Mother's Day gift basket.
We all know that being a Mom is the hardest, most rewarding job on the face of this Earth.
"You don't love me!"
How many times have your kids laid that one on you?
And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them how much?
Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them...
* I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home.
* I loved you enough to insist you buy a bike with your own money, which we could afford, and you couldn't.
* I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your hand picked friend was a creep.
* I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your bedroom, a job that would have taken me 15 minutes.
* I loved you enough to say, "Yes, you can go to Disney World on Mother's Day."
* I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust, and tears in my eyes.
* I loved you enough not to make excuses for your lack of respect or your bad manners.
* I loved you enough to admit that I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness.
* I loved you enough to ignore "what every other mother" did or said.
* I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.
* I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your own actions, at 6, 10, or 16.
* I loved you enough to figure you would lie about the party being chaperoned, but forgave you for it...after discovering I was right.
* I loved you enough to shove you off my lap, let go of your hand, be mute to your pleas and insensitive to your demands...so that you had to stand alone.
* I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, and not what I wanted you to be.
* But most of all, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.
Erma Bombeck
For all those times your mother "loved you enough," send a fabulous, heart-warming Mother's Day gift basket.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Inspiring Eco-Friendly Earth Day Quotes
Here are seven inspirational eco-friendly Earth Day quotes sure to motivate you to take notice and action. Go "green" and make a difference to the planet. One person can make a difference. It begins with an earth-friendly consciousness. It begins with you.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
The world is such a cold dark place and there's nothing I can do,
but God in all His/Her wisdom said: just build a better you.
Author Unknown
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
George Carlin
Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown
Celebrate Earth Day--and every other day--with eco-friendly Earth Day gift baskets and organic gift baskets from Cachet Baskets. We're committed to making our world--and your world--a better place.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
The world is such a cold dark place and there's nothing I can do,
but God in all His/Her wisdom said: just build a better you.
Author Unknown
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
George Carlin
Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown
Celebrate Earth Day--and every other day--with eco-friendly Earth Day gift baskets and organic gift baskets from Cachet Baskets. We're committed to making our world--and your world--a better place.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Holidays and Dates to Remember: April through June
Here are some special holidays and dates to remember for 2nd quarter--April, May, June--o8. How much would a loved one enjoy receiving a unique gift basket from you on one of these special occasions? From parties, celebrations, and holidays to sympathy, bereavement, and condolences, we've got a custom gift basket for every reason and every season.
April
May
June
View all of our April, May, June holiday gift baskets by clicking on our Seasonal Themes menu, then Spring.
Visit the January 08 archives for the 2008 list of dates to remember.
April
- April Fool’s Day, April 1
- Easter Sunday, April 16
- Orthodox Easter, April 23
- Earth Day, April 22
- Administrative Assistants' Day, formerly Secretaries' Day, is the Wednesday of the last full week of April (that is, the Wednesday before the last Saturday in April)
- Arbor Day is often the last Friday in April
May
- National Day of Prayer, May 5
- Nurses Day (week), May 6-12
- Mothers' Day, second Sunday in May
- Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May
- Memorial Day, last Monday in May
June
- Fathers' Day, third Sunday in June
- Flag Day, June 14
- First Day of Summer, June 21
View all of our April, May, June holiday gift baskets by clicking on our Seasonal Themes menu, then Spring.
Visit the January 08 archives for the 2008 list of dates to remember.
Friday, April 4, 2008
May Day Baskets and other May Day Traditions Worth Observing
"April showers bring may flowers."
May is just around the corner, and March is going out like a shivering, cold lamb which means we're expecting a lion's share of snow here in Colorado. All the better to bring those May Day flowers.
The tradition of giving May Day gift baskets of flowers is as old as the ancient pagan tradition of Beltane itself. Beltane, observed on May 1st, celebrates the Goddess of Spring whose purity, strength, fertility and passage to womanhood is honored. Today, I use May Day as a measure of how much I've grown. Each year the perennials come back--iris, daffodils, lilacs, and violets--remind me of my own rights of passage. Not typically a Christian associated holiday, we can all relate to the cycle of death into birth--winter into summer. Some communities still observe May Day by selecting a May Day Queen, dancing around the May Pole, and giving May Day baskets.
Flowers are the primary staple of a typical May Day basket. Growing up in Iowa, violets were my flower of choice. And if the lilacs were early, the fragrant, purple flowers looked and smelled wonderful spilling out from the top of the basket. We included popcorn and small candies--usually Starbursts or Tootsie Rolls--in a colorful homemade basket. We used Styrofoam cups (not today's "green" container of choice), the bottoms of liter pop bottles cut off (definitely a "green" choice), and construction paper covered boxes. We'd make a dozen baskets the evening before and then drive them around to our neighbors. And in proper May Day tradition, we'd ring the doorbell, then run! (A quiet, undiscovered get-away was tough when we had to drive.) At least we weren't catchable...which meant no May Day kisses--as tradition calls for when a "basketeer" is caught.
So who gives May Day Baskets today? Sadly, the tradition is falling to the way-side. And I haven't seen a May Day Pole since elementary school--and that was in the late 60's. May Day is the perfect opportunity to send a surprise gift! Why not send it to any young girl you know--especially those teenagers who are going through their own rights of passage. Send one to an expectant mother or your grandmother as a nostalgic reminder?
Or save yourself the time it would take to assemble the essentials and have Cachet Baskets put together a May Day "flower" basket that will last all year. A floral-themed coffee mug or writing journal outlasts fresh flowers. Or surprise a gardening fanatic with Spring-themed gardening basket full of gardening tools that'll take them well into the fall.
Take your first April showers rainy day and plan your May Day Basket list. Rain is to flowers as baskets are to friends. One helps the other grow. Let's take this May Day to honor our friends and all the growing we've done.
May is just around the corner, and March is going out like a shivering, cold lamb which means we're expecting a lion's share of snow here in Colorado. All the better to bring those May Day flowers.
The tradition of giving May Day gift baskets of flowers is as old as the ancient pagan tradition of Beltane itself. Beltane, observed on May 1st, celebrates the Goddess of Spring whose purity, strength, fertility and passage to womanhood is honored. Today, I use May Day as a measure of how much I've grown. Each year the perennials come back--iris, daffodils, lilacs, and violets--remind me of my own rights of passage. Not typically a Christian associated holiday, we can all relate to the cycle of death into birth--winter into summer. Some communities still observe May Day by selecting a May Day Queen, dancing around the May Pole, and giving May Day baskets.
Flowers are the primary staple of a typical May Day basket. Growing up in Iowa, violets were my flower of choice. And if the lilacs were early, the fragrant, purple flowers looked and smelled wonderful spilling out from the top of the basket. We included popcorn and small candies--usually Starbursts or Tootsie Rolls--in a colorful homemade basket. We used Styrofoam cups (not today's "green" container of choice), the bottoms of liter pop bottles cut off (definitely a "green" choice), and construction paper covered boxes. We'd make a dozen baskets the evening before and then drive them around to our neighbors. And in proper May Day tradition, we'd ring the doorbell, then run! (A quiet, undiscovered get-away was tough when we had to drive.) At least we weren't catchable...which meant no May Day kisses--as tradition calls for when a "basketeer" is caught.
So who gives May Day Baskets today? Sadly, the tradition is falling to the way-side. And I haven't seen a May Day Pole since elementary school--and that was in the late 60's. May Day is the perfect opportunity to send a surprise gift! Why not send it to any young girl you know--especially those teenagers who are going through their own rights of passage. Send one to an expectant mother or your grandmother as a nostalgic reminder?
Or save yourself the time it would take to assemble the essentials and have Cachet Baskets put together a May Day "flower" basket that will last all year. A floral-themed coffee mug or writing journal outlasts fresh flowers. Or surprise a gardening fanatic with Spring-themed gardening basket full of gardening tools that'll take them well into the fall.
Take your first April showers rainy day and plan your May Day Basket list. Rain is to flowers as baskets are to friends. One helps the other grow. Let's take this May Day to honor our friends and all the growing we've done.
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