Easter Gift Baskets: Perfect Food Gifts For The Whole Family

Easter gift baskets loaded with gourmet food make perfect gifts for a whole family. The ultimate gourmet food gift basket arrives packed with an Easter ham, smoked turkey breast, smoked pork chops, applewood smoked bacon, Wisconsin cheeses, mustards, and sauces and will feed family and guests for the whole Easter weekend.







Or give the gift of an Easter brunch. Easter breakfast gift baskets come in many sizes. The festive Easter Treats Gift Basket is filled with pancake mixes, pure Wisconsin maple syrup, maple sugar candy, and gourmet coffee.



Children love unwrapping Easter baskets brimming with Easter candies and chocolate bunnies. Try something new and delight children with a gift of Easter-decorated caramel apples hand-dipped in pastel-colored, candied-chocolates or sprinkles. The He Has Risen Sugar Cookie Tin will help children keep the religious significance of Easter in mind as they enjoy their Easter sweets.



Food gifts are always appreciated and always enjoyed. And sending food to loved ones has never been easier with easy on-line ordering and fast delivery. Select your favorite Easter gift basket and give it today.

Wisconsin Cheeses Win Top Awards At World Championship Cheese Contest

This past week master cheese-makers from 20 different countries met in Madison, Wisconsin to compete in the World Championship Cheese Contest. 2,318 different artisan cheeses, separated into 79 categories, vied for the gold medal of their class and the top award of world's best cheese. The Swiss Gruyere created by cheese-master Cedric Gragniere for Emmi Kase AG was named 2010 World Champion. But Wisconsin cheese-makers won 21 of the 79 gold medals for best in class, far more than any other single region.
The gold medal winner of the class of flavored Goudas was Burning Melange created by cheese-maker Marieke Penterman of Holland Family Cheese. Her flavored foenegreek Gouda won the silver medal at the 2008 World Championship Cheese Contest. My personal favorite is her smoked Gouda.
Master cheese-maker, Al O'Brien of Mt. Sterling Cheese Co-op, won 2nd place for his cave-aged raw goat milk cheddar. Delicious!
The University of Wisconsin's Babcock Dairy won best of class for its Edam Gouda! And Wisconsin's Zimmerman Cheese got the gold and silver for its Quesos Para Fundir.
Click on the link for the complete list of 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest results. To order award-winning, Wisconsin cheeses delivered to your home visit Wisconsinmade.com.

Can You Really Order In The Family's Traditional Easter Dinner And Still Please His Mother?

Countdown to Easter! Soon many mothers will be cooking the family's traditional Easter dinner. Already the kids are excited about the Easter candy and chocolate bunny. They're reminding you to get "the solid chocolate rabbit", - not the hollow one. They won't care about the Easter dinner. But everyone over twelve will. So what delicious Easter food will you make? Or does just thinking about cooking Easter dinner make you tired? How do you feel when you think about spending Easter day in the kitchen cooking for his extended family?
Oh good, glad to hear it. You're revved up and ready to bake six new kinds of Easter breads complete with hand-carved butter bunnies carrying flower baskets. You ROCK girl! Rachel and Martha move over!
What? This isn't you? You've already begun dropping hints to the hubby about going out to one of those fancy Easter brunches? Did he really say "okay, but mother won't like it"? No, don't tell us what you said back. Time to turn things positive.
Time to order in the family's traditional Easter dinner. With his mother in mind, you know you'd better find some highly impressive Easter meat. If a ham is what she always made, that's easy, here's an applewood-smoked ham you can get pre-cooked and spiral-sliced that will likely taste even better than hers. Now, wouldn't that be a shame, your ham showing up hers. You could instead go with the bone-in ham, but you'd have to dirty a pan. Still, this Wisconsin ham tastes good enough to spend a few minutes washing out a pan, even if you do forget the non-stick spray.
What's that? You can't go with a ham because Mother-in-law added a non-compete clause to your pre-nupt contract? Okay, not to worry, there's always the lamb. I say that so nonchalantly. A roasted leg of lamb is likely the absolutely most impressive piece of meat that you can put on an Easter dinner table. But this lamb is easy to prepare! And you won't be able to beat this lamb's delicious flavor with any supermarket lamb roast.
No of course lamb's not too showy. But if you fear "Mother" will think you're putting on airs with a lamb, then I say go for a bird. Roasted duck or pheasant are always pleasant (and rhyming). They too taste as great as they look. But if hubby and you hate carving, then try the boneless roulade. It sounds fancy, it looks fancy, and it is fancy. This rolled chicken stuffed with sage and cranberry dressing is a gourmet treat for Easter dinner. And best of all? Just heat it up and it's ready to eat!
Are you cheering up with the prospect of ordering in these easy Easter meats? But the vegetable side dishes still sting the back of your mind? No sweat. Buy some fancy flavored rice. Wisconsin, - home to wild rice fields extraordinaire, makes some fantastically-awesome rice mixes. Their flavors are so complex, no will suspect you just dumped the rice in water and boiled it. The gourmet rice mixes come in lots of flavor combos so you can choose the right mix to accompany the meat you choose.
And for something green? Ask your mother-in-law to bring her favorite (fill-in-the-blank) vegetable side-dish. She'll be happy to do so; no non-compete clause clutters her recipe box. Plus, a dish from hubby's past will add a feel of tradition to your family's Easter dinner.
But for dessert, be sure to break out of tradition and break out the good stuff! Spoil the family with a scrumptious carrot cake and hand-decorated Easter cookies. These too, like all the rest, can be delivered to your door. Easy ordering. Easy Easter. Now that makes for a happy mother!