 Hey everybody! Today we're doing my 2019 holiday gift guide. I've got some great ideas for you, some for the cook, and some maybe not so much for the cook, but that's okay. Great ideas. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you what they are right after this. The first gift item I want to show you is something for the cook. These are taco holders. Now who doesn't need these for Taco Tuesday, right? Everybody has a Taco Tuesday at least, or even a Taco Thursday. These are fantastic. These are restaurant grade. They are stainless steel. They're oven grill and dishwasher safe. These are the ones to get. They hold two and you get a set of four. They are just fantastic. I just had a party and we made instant pot tacos that just turned out fantastic. They're chicken tacos and these little shell holders worked out great. You want to use the crispy ones. I think the crispy taco shells with this recipe is fantastic. I'll leave links for you down below in the description of this video and you can check it out. Try that taco recipe. Okay, enough of that. So that's our first gift item. Your taco lover will love these. Our next gift item idea is something that I've had for about three, four years now. I've been using it. I love it. It is the anchor Bluetooth speaker for my iPhone, or you could probably use it for the Samsung or any of the other phones as well, just as long as you have Bluetooth, right? This I use all the time. I listen to podcasts and music when I want to kind of boost the sound a little bit. I use it in my car. I don't have Bluetooth in my car. I have an older car and this works fantastic. So when I'm on a trip, use Bluetooth to hook up my phone and listen to podcasts or music or whatever I want to do. This has been a workhorse. The battery lasts forever. I mean, I hardly ever charge it. It's just a remarkable item. I think it's like $28 and I'm going to leave links for you on all of these items because I got them all on Amazon. Makes shopping really easy, right? Just click the button and it comes to you before Christmas and this is just a great little item. I highly recommend it. The sound is good and it makes a great gift idea. So here's a great gift idea. In fact, I do this almost every year. I've been doing it with my kids for, you know, I can't remember when I started doing it, but I buy a Christmas puzzle and every year we put it together before Christmas. So I may start it like in December, beginning of December, when they were young because it took longer and we just sit around the table and we put it together and we have hot chocolate. It's just a way to come together as a family and it's a great activity. So this year, my son picked out this one and it says that it's a glitter magic. Leave it to my son to pick out some glitter, right? And I'm thinking, oh, it's a mess. But I read, I did read the, you know, all the testimonials about it and people were saying that it wasn't a problem. So I'm going to open it up and look. I don't want glitter all over and I'm sure you don't either, but I've heard that it's not a problem. So it doesn't look like it. It's a thousand pieces, small little pieces, by the way. So it should be a challenge. I'm going to go ahead and cut it open and we'll pour out some of the pieces and have a look at that glitter. See, I don't see any glitter in here at all that's floating around. You'd think that there'd be a big pile at the bottom. Nothing. So I think it's going to be perfect. It's a beautiful picture, guys. Check it out. There's all different kinds of scenes that you can pick out and different, you know, numbers, a number of pieces that are in it. This is a thousand, like I said, but that's a great gift idea and a great family activity. In my opinion, every cook should have at least one of these in their kitchen. It's just indispensable in my view. And what is it? A meat thermometer or instant read thermometer or an oven thermometer. So the first one I have here is the instant read thermometer. I use this thing all the time. It's very small. You open it up. You've got a little probe here. You stick it in your steak. Let's say you're cooking something on the stove. This is what it's great for or the barbecue and you want to check that internal temperature. It's the way it goes. You stick it in. It takes a reading and it tells you what the temperature is in about six to eight seconds. And you're good to go. You're not going to overcook that piece of meat and dry it out or that piece of fish or whatever. Love this thing. Highly recommend it. And the other one that I like to use is this one here, which is called Chef Alarm. And it is for things that are going in your oven and like a turkey or a chicken or something like that that's going to cook over a period of time. Here's the probe. You stick that into your turkey or chicken or steak, whatever it is. And then it's got this nice long cord that is attached to this little readout. You attach it together and this of course is oven proof and heat proof. And you just get a constant read on what the temperature is of your roast. You also have an alarm and it'll tell you. You can set it so that when you get to a certain temperature, so you want to cook it to 165, the alarm will go off and notify you that it's time to take it out and your recipe will be perfectly cooked. So these are both great items. I think everybody should have at least one of each. You'll be a happy cook. I'm wearing my next gift idea right here, this t-shirt. This caught my eye. I saw it on Amazon. I said, it just connected with me. And so I said, I'm going to buy that. And I think it's a great gift idea because it encourages kindness. Kind people are my kind of people. You know, the studies show that when you see someone else doing an act of kindness, you're more likely to go ahead and either do the same kind of thing for someone else. It's just, it's this ripple effect so we can affect other people by being kind to someone. It's a great thing this time of year especially. So I think it's a great idea. You could give this as a gift to somebody who you think is super kind or just wear it yourself and encourage other people and maybe, you know, share a smile. So that's my idea. All right. Next up after that, I had lots of requests for this apron. This is one of the aprons I wear in some of my cooking videos. And yeah, it's something I got in Hawaii. So I couldn't really tell the lady. She wanted to get one really bad and I said, well, I got it in Hawaii, but I saw it on Amazon. So you can get it on Amazon. It's got these beautiful flowers on there and it's just bright and happy and beautiful. And when I saw it in Hawaii, I said, I got to have it and wear this on my show. So here you go guys. There's links down below. You can pick one up. Do you have a sriracha lover that you know and you want to get a gift for it? Well, I've got a great idea for you. It is sriracha to go. These are two little containers, 1.7 ounces and one ounce that have a little key chain attachment. So you can put it on your key chain, fill it up with sriracha sauce and you can take it with you wherever you go and you can add your sriracha sauce to any meal when you're out and about. What a cool idea. I thought this was great for the sriracha lover. And now also, and these are food grade, you know, plastics, no BPA and you know, that kind of stuff. But the other cool thing is, is you could also add other ingredients. Let's say you're not a sriracha lover fan, but you could add other things, other condiments, dressings, things like that that you want to take with you. Maybe you're on a special diet and you need something special. It's a great alternative for that as well. So check that out. That could be very helpful for some people. You know how restaurants are not giving out straws anymore, right? Like you go to a stadium and they don't, they don't pass them out, you know? So what I've got for you today is a mini collapsible or telescopic stainless steel straw. Check this out. It extends to about nine inches. Like I said, it's stainless steel, dishwasher safe. It has a nice little silicone mouthpiece, so it's nice and soft, you know, to your mouth. And it's removable, so you can clean it. And it comes with its own little cleaning brush so that you can, you know, get in there and clean it up. And because it's telescopic, it closes right up, small, fits into its own little case. And you can pop this in your purse or your pocket, whatever. And it goes with you wherever you want to go. And it comes in different colors too, by the way. All they had at the time was this gray one, so I picked that up. But it makes a great stocking stuff or a great gift for someone who likes to, you know, drink their drinks out of a straw. So check that out. Now I have a cookbook that I want to recommend. I don't have one of my own, so I'm going to recommend someone else's and somebody I admire very much. And this book is the Keto Neal Prep by Flav City. Now I think a lot of you may be familiar with Bobby Parish. He does a phenomenal job. This book is beautifully illustrated. It is a keto book. You don't have to be on a ketogenic diet to enjoy these recipes. You can just make one just because you want to try something a little different. And it's going to be really delicious. The book is beautifully illustrated. Every recipe has a picture taken by his wife who did a fabulous job the beautiful photography. I mean, it's just, it's a phenomenal book. The recipes are good. The things that I like about Bobby, I'll tell you, Bobby chases the flavor just like I like to do. He makes healthy recipes taste amazing. He's got a knack for it. And that's why I really, you know, am promoting his book. I think it's he just does a fantastic job. And he also is very concerned about ingredients just like I am. Read, you know, your labels. Find out what you are eating. What is inside that jar of sauce that you're going to put on your dish. You know, he looks for the healthiest stuff and he tells us what they are. So Bobby is great. I highly recommend you check out his channel. I'll leave links for it down below in the description. You can check it out. Check out his book. You won't be disappointed. So I'm saving my favorite gift item for last and because it's going to make me very warm. And I've already got an extra t-shirt on and my apron. So now I'm going to add one more thing. And this gift idea, I think is fantastic. This is one of those sweatshirt, what are they called? Sweatshirt blankets, right? It feels like a dream. It is so soft. It's like a little fur coat. And it's got this sherpa and microfiber inside. It is so warm and cozy. Let me put it on for you. Hopefully, you can still hear me and I will model this for you. I get cold in these winter nights and you just, you can sit on the couch and snuggle up in this thing and it's just roomy. I don't care what you have on. You can always fit it over because this is plenty of room. You could probably, well, let me show you, you could probably get two of me in here. That's okay. But it's, and you can walk around. You get up off the couch and you can go in the kitchen and get yourself a snack and you're staying nice and warm. It's got a nice big pocket in front. Look at this. Let me model it for you. It's so soft and so warm and I'm getting really, hopefully you can hear me. I'm getting really warm right now. It's got a hood. There you go. You can really snuggle. Make sure you can hear me. Great item, guys. Now I will say one thing. I made a mistake when I ordered this one. This one is a definite pullover. I wanted the one and I didn't pay attention closely when I ordered that has the zipper because I like to have the zipper. I like that flexibility of being able to take a little bit off if I wanted to, right? If I got a little too warm. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to send this one back, like this one's going back and I'm getting the one with the zipper. So it just has a zipper in front. Pockets, you can't touch your hands in it, but you still got two big pockets in the front. You can put your phone in there. You can put, you know, little snacks, whatever you want, and you're good to go. So this thing, I can't recommend it enough. I'm loving it. I can't wait for my other one to show up. Those are my ideas, guys. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope it helps you out. There's still time to order before Christmas. Amazon is quick. You can get things in one to two days, free shipping if you have Prime. So I want to know which of these gifts, I think there was nine of them. Did you like the best? Which one do you think you might get for someone or yourself? Let me know down in the comments. I would love to hear from you. So Merry Christmas, everybody. Have a wonderful Christmas with your family and your friends, and we'll see you in the next video. Take care.