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Looking for a unique gift idea?  Check out our Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culinary adventures, or as we like to call them:  A Party in a Box.  You, or your gift recipient,  get to choose fresh ingredients from the local market and add our all-organic dry ingredients to make a truly memorable party for friends or family. 

Each kit comes with complete instructions along with photos, cultural and historical information about the country you are "visiting", and music and decorating tips, such as tuning into Pandora.com for a specific artist to compliment the Spanish tapas "little plates" party.  Each menu gives suggestions of additional items to purchase at the market, such as hummus or a great wine, to enhance to your culinary adventure.

Welcome to Passport Dinners

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Who wants to go and buy a whole bottle of saffron or smoked paprika for just one meal?  Our dinner kits come with just the right amount of spices for your culinary adventure without breaking the bank and wasting money on a spice or herb that will be rarely used. 


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We're excited that we finally have our Tapas DIY dinner kit ready!  In Spain, the motto is "eat when you drink, drink when you eat",  and tapas seem to have been invented just for this. Tapas are finger food, delicious morsels to tempt the drinker to have another glass, and then another morsel!  The Tapas DIY dinner kit offers four different small plates:  savory, crunchy, spicy and tangy tastes.  Or go smaller with either UNO or DOS Tapas Small Culinary Journeys.  So put on the flamenco music, light some candles, and open a bottle of spicy and earthy Rioja to sip with your tapas.  Our enclosed historical and cultural information will inform you of the connection between Spanish foods and the history and religion of Spain.  Salud!

USDA or eu Certified Organic Spices & Dry Ingredients

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Some of our organics
Our goal is to offer high quality organic spices and other organic dry ingredients such as whole wheat couscous and organic paella rice from around the world to help you or your gift recipient serve up an amazing feast to loved ones!   All of our spices are certified USDA or EU organic.  For a list of which fresh ingredients you should buy organic, check out our Shopper's Guide to Pesticides.

It's not just dinner:  it's a party.  We offer our smaller DIY Small Culinary Journeys in addition to our larger complete feasts of DIY Dinner Party Kits for when you want the complete culinary dinner adventure of world cuisines.  We have a classic and festive Spanish paella (pa-ā-yə) dinner kit.  Our Spanish tapas kit is now ready to be shipped.  We also offer two exotic Moroccan dinner kits:  a tangy preserved lemon chicken dinner kit and a sweet yet savory cinnamon & honey chicken dinner kit.  And don't forget to check out our Passport Party Competition kit.  Grab a group of your friends and choose teams for a culinary cook-off. 

When our DIY dinner kit arrives, the aroma of our exotic organic spices will intrigue you.  Our dinner kits include all the dry ingredients, all organic and non-GMO, as well as a market list of fresh items to buy at the market, such as chicken or onions.  Our menus give suggestions of other items you could buy to enhance your adventure, such as suggestions of Spanish red wines to serve with your paella or hummus to add to your cinnamon & honey Moroccan chicken feast.  There are also two pages of cultural information, such as the reason pork is so popular in Spain or instructions on performing a rose water hand washing ceremony for your guests at your Moroccan feast.  Along with our market list, menus, and cultural information, we also provide decorating and presentation ideas along with music suggestions to make for a really fun evening.

Check back on our website often as we continue to add new and exciting locales in our culinary journey with Passport Dinners!
If you have any questions or suggestions for other exotic or gourmet dinner kits, contact Sharon at sharon@passportdinners.com.

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