Italian Gift Baskets

An Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket! Mi Amore!

There is little else Italian’s like more than an Italian food!  An Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket is just the ticket!  When you’re going to meet her parents, don’t leave home without one!  Where do you get an Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket?  You have to shop!  When you get married, that’s when she will do all the shopping, for now, you must shop for her, shop for her family, shop for her dog and her cat…shop, shop, shop!  Actually, online shopping is one of the easiest and best things to happen to the 21st century…so why not start there?So you’re going home to meet the parents?  Nervous doesn’t exactly describe the way you feel right now does it?  Will her dad see right through you and know that you and his daughter have already been intimate?  After all, who would buy a car without test driving it first-right?  Maybe this isn’t the best topic of conversation…in fact, if you’re lucky, you may be so busy enjoying the Italian food pasta sauce and gift basket you brought over, there might not be any conversation…but then again, they are Italians!  Maybe you’ll learn the secret after you marry their daughter…how do they eat so much and talk so much at the same time?  There is enough conversation to solve most of the world’s problems discussed in a mere half an hour while a dinner meal is being consumed.  At your house, if a meal is really good, there’s just silence.  Why?  Because the food is so good you don’t want to interrupt your enjoyment of the food by talking!

An Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket is not quite the same, though.  Although you are unaware, the quieter the meal, the less satisfaction is gained from the way the food tastes…only in Italy!

As long as the Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket comes complete with Italian dressing, Italian sauces (made from a real Italian…don’t try that Prego stuff!) and Italian Pasta with Mediterranean mushrooms, you should be in good with the “rents”.   If these things are not included, I wouldn’t spend one red cent…not just yet!

Shopping for just the perfect Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket is as easy as American pie.  Italian breads, herbs and spices compliment wines of all vintages…as long as they are red!  Italians do not drink white wine or champagne!  Don’t forget this small detail or it won’t seem so small when her father is looking straight through you!  Gifted in a basket or crate, these Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket assortments range in price from $40 to over $100.  Choose wisely, you might even want your fiancée to help you pick out the right one.  Heaven forbid you bring a gift basket that the last boyfriend brought and they hated him!  Make sure you don’t seem nervous as you present the gift to the mother…only the mother…if there is no mother, than the grandmother…whoever mans the kitchen.  Kiss her cheek as you pull her close and then kiss the other cheek!  Italians are big on the two-cheek kiss!  Firmly shake the father’s hand and look him straight in the eyes.  He’ll see through you anyway…and that’s what you want.  You want her father to know that you love his daughter enough to come and meet them early in the process and have supper with them in their fine Italian home…don’t forget to mention the home…how nice it is, how beautifully things are arranged, blah, blah, blah.

Oh yeah!  If the Italian food pasta and sauce gift basket is not what is for dinner, then be sure to invite yourself back so you can enjoy it at a later time.  It goes something like this “The food was delicious!  I’m sure you (the kitchen warden) can do wonders with the Italian food that I brought, I’d like to come back and taste more of your magic!”  You’ll be in like Flin!