Welcome to day 3 of the Rosh Hashana Giveaway Week! Are we having fun yet? We’re only half-way through, with lots more prizes left to give away.
The first of today’s offering (yup, there will be TWO prizes today… stay tuned for #2…) is a $25 gift card to KosherWine.com. That ought to add a little spice to your Sweet New Year.
(If you don’t know about the great deals at KosherWine.com, read my review here. We’ve been happy customers for three years.)
If you win, you can spend your $25 however you please: Maybe you’ll pick up your favorite bottle of bubbly – and refuse to share it with anyone! Or maybe you’ll be feeling generous, and get a special treat for your Rosh Hashana table.
To enter this giveaway, simply leave a comment on this post with your favorite gift to give – or receive – as a yom tov host.
Sorry, but this giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
Each day this week, I am hosting one (and in some cases two) Rosh Hashana giveaways. The giveaways will be open until next Tuesday, September 20 at 11:59 CST. The winners of all the giveaways will be announced next Wednesday.
Disclaimer: KosherWine.com will provide one KOAB winner with a $25 gift card. I was not compensated to run this giveaway, nor to share my positive opinions of KosherWine.com. Those are all my own! I am, however, an affiliate of KosherWine.com. For more information on how clicking through to KosherWine.com from my blog supports KOAB, please see my disclosure policy.
I actually think wine IS my favourite host gift to receive/give. It’s something that is easy enough to “get right” for the less frum guests, something that everyone in general can enjoy, and even if you aren’t big wine drinkers, it can at least be used for kiddush and such.
I love giving and getting certificates for manicures!
my husband was just telling me it is time to restock our wine.
My husband would LOVE this one. He’s a big wine fan. That’s why getting wine is one of our favorite gifts (though chocolate is a close second)
Something consumable. I have enough stuff that I don’t need more, and any food that is brought is something I don’t have to make/buy.
However, food can get tricky-I went to visit relatives in Safed and (since I was pretty clueless at the time) brought them chocolate that didn’t have an acceptable hectcher. I was rather embarrassed, although they were perfectly nice about it.
I love giving candy platter!
Bartenura Moscato or Malvasia! Thank you Mara for these wonderful Rosh Hashanah giveaways.
I usually bring a bottle of wine. I think a candy tray is nice if there are alot of kids.
Dessert, candy tray or cake.
I usually bring a bottle of wine or candy when we’re invited out.
When we have guests over, I usually ask them to bring wine.
Hi, I love giving anything homemade – I especially love to give Wine from Israel!
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Agree wine is great. Once I brought holiday themed wine glass markers (it was actually for Pesach, and they were the 10 plagues), that was a fun gift.
I bring wine, dessert, or both! That way you can always be sure this a wine and dessert you like. And I appreciate the same when I have guests. one or the other or both is great too!
Candy is my favorite.
I love to give serving utensils – everyone can always use an extra serving spoon!
I like receiving housewares. I once received a Havdallah mat from Israel which was an awesome gift!
i love getting wine or any type of chocolate desert as a gift for hosting. I love giving wine as a gift, its easy and most people lke wine.
My kids like candy but, I normally need the wine when there are a houseful of kids!
I love getting wine as a gift. I’m not a big wine “expert” and this gives me
a chance to try wonderful new varieties. I also have a guest at break-fast, who brings a large lox platter that he orders from NY along with some amazing bagels. We can’t get anything like that here in Richmond, VA.
Wine! (and we seriously love kosherwine.com too!)
Though sometimes if I don’t know the hosts at all, I’ll bring some sort of packaged dessert. I have a fear of bringing wine to a family where they only do grape juice or something.
I actually prefer to receive no gift at all. If I invited people, I just want them to come and don’t need a gift. But if someone is bringing one, I prefer wine or candy.
I like to receive cake, but like to give Al Netilas Yadaim towels (not sure about the English transliteration on that one). You can never have too many towels!
I LOVE BARTANURA WINE! 🙂
Chocolate all the way!
I like to give and receive wine because it’s simple. I generally have a hard time thinking of gifts (for any occasion) so this gives me one less thing to ponder. Everyone can use some wine!
Bartenura Moscato D’Asti
I love to bring homemade cookies.
Wine is always a good go-to gift (esp. Moscato d’Asti in the blue bottle). Sometimes I’ll pick up a vase or bowl on sale somewhere and spend less than the cost of a bottle of wine and give a longer-lasting gift.
I love to say, “Can I bring challah?” It is one less thing for the host to worry about, and I enjoy making challah. As for receiving, I love when other people offer to bring dessert.
I always bake challah as a gift to the hostess.
I like to bring either homemade challah or homemade dessert especially since one of my kids is allergic to eggs so this way the host doesn’t feel like she/he has to cook for her and I know there is something that she can eat.
I love to bring homemade cookies or dessert if I have time. If not, a bottle of wine goes a long way!
For the Yom Tovim I like to make honey butter spread. The rest of the year wine is probably our top pick, or I make challah, depending on who we are going to 🙂
We’re more the bring desert types but wine works as well.:-)
I never have time to bake, so I love getting home-made challah! (If I’m doing the giving, it’s usually wine or dessert from the bakery.)
My favourite wine is Malvasia, but we usually hoard our stash of that for private celebrations. We bring a Red Yarden or homemade crinkle cookies as host gifts.
Ooh, this giveaway I *have* to enter. 🙂 I do love a big bold spicy red! My favorite thing to give when I’m being hosted for a meal is dessert – I love making desserts. For the last few years, some friends and I have done a round-robin thing for HHD meals, each taking a turn hosting. One 3-day-yom-tov, I made desserts for all 6 meals (including the one that I hosted). Six different desserts. All chocolate, of course. It was awesome.
I like buying a pretty glass or crystal serving dish and baking something to put on it!
Wine!!!!
we love giving a sampler pack of trader joe’s beer.
i love bringing a a homemade dessert as a gift !
My husband loves to give Amaranth. I however prefer to give something like gourmet Vegan/Kosher cupcakes.
wine 🙂 So winning this would be great!
I like to make dessert or get dessert, especially chocolate chip cookies!
Wine is our go to gift.
I like bringing a homemade baked good of some sort in a nice new tray/carrying container/cake dish!
Wine or chocolate!
Was just given a challah dough cover which is a decorated cloth to put over your dough while rising. I love the idea so will be probably giving out some of these as hostess gifts this year.
we either give candy or wine, lately more candy since there are more and more kids around…..
I almost give (and receive) wine, but I really prefer to give flowers.
I usually first ask what food I can bring, then if not food I usually buy a cute bowl or dish for the host or a bottle of wine.
I love getting/giving home-made baked goods.
Homemade goods!
The best gift to give or get is a food gift. A fruit basket that also has candy for the kids is both fun and practical.
We usually bring a dessert of some sort. And maybe a nice bottle of wine.
A serving piece from Home Goods. Looks nice but not expensive!
wine, always wine. Or my homemade sweet challah!
I like to give a food item towards the meal we are having together, and give it in a dish to keep. I also like to give tea towels or dish owels; they seemeasy and useful. I am always happy to get fancy soaps or candles. I rarely buy them for myself and I can set them out the next time I have company.
I love when someone offers to bring a side dish or dessert. Wine is always useful. I like to offer the same, or bring wine with a tiny thank-you card and a small thing of candy to please the kids. A good idea (I think): consider if your host appreciates fine wine before spending on it! Some people would be better off receiving other things!
Candy, wine, or flowers.
flowers 😀
I like to bring cherries in a pretty ceramic dish from Marshall’s or the like.
Stunning serving utensils or a great bottle of ref wine
My kids love when guests bring chocolate but I prefer to give (and receive) small housewares
making my own dessert is always a great gift to give someone. Its thoughtful and pple always appreciate it!
I think my favorite gift to bring is a homemade dessert. I don’t often take the time to bake for just my family so it’s nice to have my kids help me bake and then they get really excited to tell everyone how they helped out and the host usually appreciates it.
I got the most beautiful salad servers; thought they were a great gift!
Before we had kids, I would pick up inexpensive tzochkies when we travelled abroad like hand dipped candles from Israel or wooden carved salad servers from South Africa…now I just bring a bottle of wine.
I love when people bring fresh fruit for dessert – and I love to give hand painted silk challah covers as a gift. I also love when an out of town guest brings a bottle of wine that we can’t get in Boston. I placed an order on kosherwine.com for work and get their emails but have never placed a personal order and this would be a great way to start!
wine or candy! 🙂
Wine is always my favorite gift, you don’t have to know the size or whether it will fit, everybody enjoys a glass of wine.
Homemade jam (berries from the garden) and veggies from the garden!
Wine.
I like to contribute to the meal. In the winter a veggie salad or in the summer a fruit salad.
my favorite gift to receive are colorful fresh flowers. They always make me feel good when I’m able to see their beauty.
yummy homemade baked goods is always the best to give and receive
wine of course
moscato all the way
I like to accomodate the host if they say there is something specific they need.. if not I like to do a candy platter- long yom tov with not much to do so a nosh is great and its nice to support local kosher establishments..
I like bringing wine 🙂
I like to bring a little homemade yummy like brownies, lemon merangue pie or chololate cake.
I like receiving wine because we don’t usually have it in the house it is a nice treat!
The gifts I bring to hosts vary on the season. If it’s summertime or summerlike weather out, I bring Purely Decadent soy ice cream pints. Thanks to you, I usually buy a case at Whole Foods when it’s on sale. 🙂 During the winter, I like to bring either boxes of tea or red wine. If I really get my act together, I usually go to my hostess’s house beforehand and make some sort of baked good.
My favorite are desserts that are small enough that they’re mostly eaten by the time dinner is over, but big enough that we have a treat for sometime later in the week 🙂
I love bringing wine – always more fun to share!
I like champagne, like Asti- both to give and receive!
I like to bring dessert , because I love to bake. I like to receive wine or a plant.
We like to give wine most of the time because we always have at home at least 2 boxes and we could choose for the people we are giving to.
It’s also very convinient because you don’t have to bother to go shopping when you don’t have much time.
Handmade (by me) beaded serving utensils.
Love to bring a cake. the gooier the better.
I usually bring something homemade. But if I know there will already be a lot of food, I bring some Moscato!
Lately I’ve gotten into good white wine actually 🙂
I like to bring a sparkling wine, cider or juice. Always a hit and easy to transport.
It depends on whom we are visiting. For a couple, I like to give wine or flowers. For families with kids either bubbly grape juice or candy. I like any present ;).
I love giving flowers.
flowers 🙂
a fine wine
I love to give sweets or treats that the host probably wouldn’t buy for herself.
Dessert or wine
Favorite gift is definitely dessert – although wine is a close second. I’m a fan of a nut tray or cake.
I try to stock up when I go to Israel and buy hand towels with chag samaech or al nitilat yadayim embroidered on it otherwise, we do wine and baked cookies 🙂
Flowers!!
dessert
I love giving and receiving a good bottle of wine and a homemade dessert.
Flowers or chocolate!
I am not much of gift receiving guy. But I love giving to others – wine, a nice fruit basket, or a gift card to one’s favorite store.
If someone gave me a nice bottle of wine, I would invite some people over to share.
Chocolate will do.
I am a big fan of wine, and like to bring a bottle. On the receiving end, wine or whiskey is usually good. Though I should credit the beautiful bride, who can put together flowers like you would not believe.
I like when people bring homemade desserts!
i love to give hand towels for washing or a nice bottle of wine with a nice stopper
I love to give and receive baked goods
I love wine! Being a working mom who is very active outside of work, I depend on wine to pick me up after a tough day! I love a good glass of wine with dinner to end my day
I love to bring a bottle or two of wine most of the time. Sometimes I will bring a yummy dessert instead.
Bottle of scotch 🙂
Wine or something edible to add to the festive meal!
wine!
I like to give or get something useful..like a pretty glass bowl or small cookbook, or hot pads etc…
this way the relationship (for me is longer lasting becuase every time I look at the gift I think of that persson.
I like to bring my very healthy, very yummy wheat free, maple syrup sweetened oatmeal cookies along with a bottle of wine and some fancy tea bags always put in a pretty shopping bag or wrapped up with pretty bows!
I love bringing wine to my friends when I am invited for Shabbat. It is especially fun to try new Kosher wines.
I love bringing wine to my friends on shabbat. I especially like to try new kosher wines.
I like to give Homemade stuff and i like to receive flowers.
flowers or something homemade from our kosher kitchen.
I like to bring something the hostess has hopefully indicated would be helpful for the meal. Also, if there are young kids, something for them.
I like to receive homemade challah.
Favorite gift to give is a Kosher magazine subscription!
My favorite gift to bring or get is a cold bottle of Moscato or a Netilas Yadayim towel.
Bartenura!
yes, wine is good
Usually a nice bottle of wine. Juenesse is my favorite right now.
I like wine or flowers.
I love bringing my husband’s famous pasta with homeade pesto to friends for a meal!
Beer or Wine
My favorite gift to receive is wine! Semi-dry red to be exact. Wine is our favorite shabbos treat 🙂
My favorite hostess gift to give is flowers in a vase (no extra work that way). You can’t go wrong- not everyone appreciates wine or candy and I think flowers show appreciation specifically to the woman of the house who is usually the one putting in all the hard work.
love getting wine (especially because we always forget to restock our wine and remember as the guests are coming!)…
I like to bring the wonderful home-brewed wine and beer my husband made himself!