Italian Herb Garden Salad Dressing Gift Basket + Printables
Put together a thoughtful and useful salad dressing gift basket full of garden fresh Italian herbs with this tutorial and printable recipes and labels. Perfect for weddings or showers, Mother’s Day, birthdays, and more!
Yield: 1 basket
Calories:
Cost: $10-15
Equipment
- Glue stick, scissors, plastic wrap
Materials
- 1 Salad bowl, basket, or other container to hold gift basket items
- 1 Optional: tea towel (I love this one from the Hearth & Hand line at Target!) and salad servers
- 1 Small spice bottle with lid
- 3 Live herb plants: basil, oregano, and parsley
- Bamboo skewers
- Tissue paper and jute or other type of wrap for herbs (Note: you may want to buy cute pots to put the herbs in if you know they will grow these indoors – this set is really cute and come three to a basket, so you could present the gift in this with just the recipes and spice mix)
- Italian Herb Salad Dressing Recipe Cards Printable and Salad Dressing Gift Basket Labels Printable (click links to to both PDFs to open in a new window and download to your computer and printing)
Instructions
Prepare your herb plants
- Cut out the herb labels from your gift basket labels printable: cut each herb label into a long strip and then fold over evenly so there’s a front and plain back. I notched the ends to look like pennants – you can do that or not.
- Use a glue stick to coat the inside of one and then wrap it around the top of a bamboo skewer, smoothing as needed.
- Place the prepared herb labels into the corresponding pot.
Make the salad dressing spice mix
- In a small bowl, mix together:2 teaspoons garlic powder2 teaspoons onion powder2 teaspoons salt2 teaspoons sugar2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- Transfer to the spice jar with a funnel. Cut out label from gifts basket labels printable and glue to jar.
Prepare the salad bowl/container.
- Line the bowl with the tea towel.
- Optional: if you’re worried about the tissue paper bleeding onto the towel (like I was), lay a piece of plastic wrap on top of the towel where the herb plants will be placed as a precaution.
Put together the Italian Herb Garden Salad Dressing Basket
- Set the herb plants in place first.
- Add the spice mix in front of the plants.
- Place the salad servers on the right towards the back.
- Print the Italian Herb Dressings Gift Basket Cards, cut out each, and add them on the back left. Note: for easier transport, you may want to fully secure them inside the bowl.
