Table of Contents
- What's Inside the Welcome Home Gift Box
- Easy Sheet-Pan Chicken Thighs with Potatoes and Carrots
- Stovetop Beef & Bean Chili
- Quick Tomato Soup with Garlic-Mix Grilled Cheese
- Easy Garlic Parmesan Pasta
- Simple Garlic-Pepper Salmon
- Garlic-Pepper Scrambled Eggs with Toast
- Three Jars That Actually Earn the Welcome
- FAQs
Recipes for Welcome Home Gift Box - A New Home Starts with Salt, Pepper, and Something That Smells Like Garlic
A new kitchen does not need twenty-seven jars and a culinary degree. It needs a few dependable basics and somebody willing to turn on the stove. The Welcome Home Gift Box from Tradition Spice Company keeps that first cabinet simple with Granulated Salt, Restaurant Style Black Pepper, and Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning. Salt brings food into focus, black pepper gives it a little backbone, and the salt-free Garlic Mix adds dehydrated garlic, onion, paprika, dill and savory spices without making a beginner measure half the pantry. It is useful for a housewarming, a first apartment, a new cook, a wedding, a closing gift, or even a practical party favor. More importantly, these are three jars people can actually start cooking with tonight.
What's Inside the Welcome Home Gift Box
3 Everyday Kitchen Staples
- Granulated Salt (5.3 oz)
- Black Pepper Restaurant Style (2.2 oz)
- Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning (2.4 oz)
These six recipes are intentionally simple. No specialty pans, no six-hour marinades, and no instructions involving the phrase “prepare the reduction.” The first three lean into cool-weather comfort. The last three work all year and teach the sort of basic cooking that makes a new kitchen feel useful fast.
Easy Sheet-Pan Chicken Thighs with Potatoes and Carrots
One pan, ordinary groceries, and dinner comes out looking like somebody knew what they were doing. Salt and Restaurant Style Black Pepper build the foundation while Garlic Mix adds garlic, onion and herbs to both the chicken and vegetables.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Granulated Salt
- 1 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 6 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- 1 pound baby potatoes, halved
- 4 carrots, cut into thick pieces
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Directions
Heat the oven. Set it to 425°F.
Season the vegetables. Toss potatoes and carrots with 1 tablespoon olive oil, half the salt, half the pepper, and about one-third of the Garlic Mix.
Season the chicken. Pat the thighs dry, rub with the remaining oil, then coat with the remaining salt, pepper, and Garlic Mix.
Roast it all together. Arrange everything on a sheet pan and roast 35 to 45 minutes, until the chicken reaches at least 165°F and the vegetables are tender.
Rest and serve. Give the chicken 5 minutes before serving so the juices stay where they belong.
Stovetop Beef & Bean Chili
Chili is forgiving, which is precisely what a new cook needs. Brown the beef, open a few cans, stir, and let the pot make you look competent. Garlic Mix supplies an easy garlic-onion-paprika layer while salt and pepper handle the basics.
Ingredients
- 3/4 teaspoon Granulated Salt, plus more to taste
- 3/4 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 2 teaspoons Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 15-ounce can kidney beans, drained
- 1 15-ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, if needed
Directions
Brown the beef. Cook ground beef and onion in a large pot over medium heat until the beef is no longer pink. Drain excess fat if needed.
Season the pot. Stir in salt, black pepper, Garlic Mix, chili powder, and cumin for about 30 seconds.
Add the easy stuff. Stir in beans, diced tomatoes, and tomato sauce.
Simmer. Reduce the heat and cook uncovered for 20 to 30 minutes, stirring now and then.
Taste before serving. Add a little more salt or pepper only if it needs it.
Quick Tomato Soup with Garlic-Mix Grilled Cheese
Tomato soup and grilled cheese is fall comfort without a committee meeting. The soup gets a simple salt-and-pepper tune-up, while Garlic Mix turns the sandwich into garlic grilled cheese with almost no additional effort.
Ingredients
- 1/2 teaspoon Granulated Salt, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 2 cups chicken or vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 cup heavy cream, optional
- 8 slices sandwich bread
- 8 slices cheddar or American cheese
- 2 tablespoons softened butter for the bread
Directions
Start the soup. Combine crushed tomatoes, broth, butter, salt, and pepper in a saucepan.
Simmer. Cook over medium-low heat for 15 minutes. Stir in cream at the end if you want it richer.
Build the sandwiches. Butter the outside of each bread slice and sprinkle the buttered sides lightly with Garlic Mix. Put cheese between two slices.
Grill. Cook sandwiches in a skillet over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes per side, until golden and the cheese is melted.
Serve together. Cut the sandwiches in half. Dipping is not required by law, but it would be foolish not to.
Easy Garlic Parmesan Pasta
This is what you cook when the cupboard looks empty but there is pasta hiding in it. Garlic Mix turns butter and noodles into an actual dinner, while coarse flecks of Restaurant Style Black Pepper keep the whole thing from tasting timid.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon Granulated Salt for the pasta water
- 1/2 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 2 teaspoons Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 12 ounces spaghetti, linguine, or other pasta
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup reserved pasta water
- Chopped parsley, optional
Directions
Boil the pasta. Cook pasta in salted water according to the package. Before draining, scoop out about 1/2 cup pasta water.
Make the simple sauce. Return the empty pot to low heat. Melt the butter and stir in Garlic Mix for 30 seconds.
Toss it together. Add drained pasta, Parmesan, black pepper, and a splash of pasta water. Toss until glossy.
Adjust. Add a little more pasta water if it seems dry. Taste before adding any extra salt because the Parmesan has plenty to say.
Simple Garlic-Pepper Salmon
Salmon sounds fancy until you realize the oven does nearly everything. Salt keeps the seasoning honest, Restaurant Style Black Pepper gives the fish bite, and Garlic Mix adds a savory crust without chopping a thing.
Ingredients
- 1/2 teaspoon Granulated Salt
- 3/4 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 2 teaspoons Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 4 salmon fillets, about 5 to 6 ounces each
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges
- Asparagus or green beans, optional
Directions
Heat the oven. Set it to 400°F.
Season the salmon. Put the fillets on a sheet pan, rub lightly with olive oil, then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and Garlic Mix.
Add a vegetable if you want. Toss asparagus or green beans with a little oil, salt, and pepper and place them beside the fish.
Bake. Cook 12 to 15 minutes, depending on thickness, until the salmon flakes easily and is cooked to your liking.
Finish. Squeeze lemon over the fish just before serving.
Garlic-Pepper Scrambled Eggs with Toast
A kitchen staple kit ought to handle breakfast too. These eggs teach one useful lesson right away: low heat beats hurry. The seasoning stays simple, and a little Garlic Mix makes ordinary toast considerably more interested in its future.
Ingredients
- 1/4 teaspoon Granulated Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Restaurant Style Black Pepper
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk, optional
- 1 tablespoon butter, plus more for toast
- 2 to 4 slices bread
Directions
Season the eggs. Whisk eggs with milk, salt, and black pepper.
Make the garlic toast. Toast the bread, butter it while hot, and sprinkle lightly with Garlic Mix.
Cook gently. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add the eggs.
Stir, don't scramble them to death. Push the eggs slowly around the pan with a spatula until softly set, 3 to 5 minutes.
Serve right away. Eggs wait for nobody.
Three Jars That Actually Earn the Welcome
The Welcome Home Gift Box works because it does not hand a new cook a puzzle. Salt, black pepper, and Garlic Mix cover the fundamentals immediately: season chicken, fix a bowl of chili, dress up grilled cheese, make pasta worth eating, bake a piece of salmon, or rescue breakfast before the coffee has finished working.
That practicality is what makes it a good housewarming gift, closing gift, wedding gift, first-apartment present, new-neighbor welcome, or party favor for people starting a kitchen of their own. The box says, in effect, “Here are three things you are actually going to use.” Around here, that's a better welcome than another decorative sign telling you to gather, laugh, or live.
Welcome Home Gift Box - Give the Tradition of Salt, Pepper, and Garlic
$23.00
Say “welcome home” with a gift that will be used long after the moving boxes are gone. The Welcome Home Gift Box is a thoughtful housewarming, wedding, closing, or new-neighbor gift featuring three staples every kitchen needs. Order it now… read more
FAQs
What's a great gift for a new home owner?
The gift of flavor. Starting with the basics: Salt, Pepper and Garlic.
What spice goes best on garlic bread?
Tradition Spice's Garlic Mix Da Best! Garlic Bread Seasoning. That's what. Add salt to taste. Melt in butter while toasting in the oven. Or sizzle over butter in a skillet. Extra delicious!
Why is salt and pepper always paired?
History of these two spices goes way back, I mean waaay back. They've historically been affordable and abundant and provide enough recipe coverage to flavor up just about anything. Although salt is really a mineral, not a spice - just say'n.
