Etiquette

One of the best ways to show someone you care or lend a helping hand is to make a homemade dish to bring to their home. Whether your friend had a baby or lost a loved one, bringing a homemade dish is such a personal way to show them that you care. After all it is the gift of time, our most precious commodity. The time that you won't have to spend preparing a dish and the time that your friend put into the dish. It is wonderful to be on the receiving in of one of these gifts, especially when life gets hectic and a friends shows up on your doorstep relieving you from having to think about what to do for dinner. There is some etiquette, though, that goes along with receiving food from a friend. More often than not, it will be given in a nice dish from your friend's kitchen and sooner or later that dish will need to be returned. You should never return an empty dish! This does not mean that if you received a complicated casserole recipe that you should make another complicated casserole recipe, but you should place some cookies or muffins, store bought or homemade, in the dish along with a sweet thank you note as a gesture of gratitude.