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!
Dorit
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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.