The Secret Ingredient

- might come in a cool little package - with all sorts of covert information that could make your next meal/dish/cookie  a nostalgic trip back to Aunt Virginia's farm house in Iowa.

Seeing as it's cook-a-thon season, I thought this would make a mighty fine hosting gift - particularly if you have some recipes that wanna share with your hosts, like Uncle Earl's favorite Whiskey Sour or Nana's crab canapés.

from earmarkinvitations

This handsome packet contains 4 folded cards, 12 flat cards, and 6 tabbed cards to keep your lemon square recipe from your ranch dressing recipe.

And for other clever gifty ideas, check out earmark invitations.  They are a locally-based (Plymouth to be exact) pair of creative and hilarious geniuses.