I had the privilege of doing a review for Delicae Gourmet last fall where I featured their wonderful crock pot meals and pasta sauce. I’m thrilled to be partnering with them again to show you a few things that you are definitely going to want to have in your pantry and fridge!

If you weren’t a follower of mine back in November and aren’t familiar with this company, let me tell you a little bit about them. It is a Florida-based company run by two wonderful people, Barbara and Lenny, who have a true passion for gourmet food, and who want to make it easier bring complex and amazing flavors into people’s homes. I can tell you first-hand, they are VERY successful at what they do, because their food is divine. I’m not tossing that word around lightly, either!

Delicae Gourmet has a wide selection of gourmet food products, but today I’m focusing on their salad dressings and their salsas. I had the opportunity to try out two salad dressings and I love them both. First up is the Pomegranate Dijon Salad Dressing. I personally love honey mustard dressing, and I thought this did an amazing job of taking a mustard type dressing in a different direction. Simply put, it rocks. Second, I tried a dressing that might sound a bit crazy…which is why I had to taste it! Check out the Orange Lavender Horseradish Dressing with French Herbs. Told you it sounded crazy! Now, if you don’t like Horseradish, you aren’t going to like this dressing. But I do like horseradish, and this dressing really just has a hint of it. The orange and the lavender really shine through, and the horseradish seems to come through toward the end of your bite. The dressing reminds me of a beautiful perfume, with layers. Oh, I heart it in a major way! Both dressings are $5.95, which may be more expensive than the Kraft dressing you are currently buying, but given how much better it tastes than that stuff, it’s a bargain!

Now we turn our attention to the salsas. I have been using both their pineapple salsa and their key lime mango salsa, and they both are delightful. I put the pineapple salsa over some grilled chicken as a way to quickly dress up an otherwise really boring meal. It was a home run. I thought at first that it was going to be too spicy (heat) for me, but as I kept eating, it got better and better. The key lime mango salsa is helping to restore my confidence in cooking fish at home. It seems every time I try, it just tastes so bland. But not anymore, and all I have to do is add this salsa. SO easy! The salsas also run $5.95 each.

Thank you, Delicae Gourmet for helping to breathe new life into our home cooking.

Win it!: The great folks at Delicae Gourmet are ready to help you usher in fall with a $25 gift certificate to their site! One lucky Stuff Parents Need reader is going to win it! There are so many amazing products that I assure you, it will be hard to decide which items to get. But trust me, you can’t make a bad choice! The contest will run until September 20th at 11:59pm EST when a winner will be selected using Random.org. Open to residents of the United States. Limit one entrant per household, please.

Mandatory entry: Tell me one item that Delicae Gourmet sells that you would really love to have in your home.

Additional entries:
1. Follow Stuff Parents Need on Twitter

Be sure to enter my other giveaways, found on the sidebar of my home page!

Disclosure: I received complimentary products for review purposes. The opinions expressed here are strictly my own. Affiliate links may be included at no cost to you

EDIT: THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED

I have been back at work for 5 weeks, now. My husband and I each work 4 day weeks (10 hours each day). He has Mondays off, and I have Fridays off. We are very lucky; I know most working parents are away from home Monday-Friday, and sometimes even more than that. Even with that said, I’m still going to complain about Tuesday-Thursday. They are absolutely INSANE! We get home around 6pm. Our little one is very tired by that point, and pretty much eats and goes right to sleep. Once we’ve put her down, it’s 6:30pm and we have to figure out what to eat for dinner. We typically eat lunch around noon, so by 6:30 we are VERY hungry. We’re also pooped! Does this painful weekday scenario sound familiar to you? It’s so tempting in those moments to call Papa John’s or run out to Taco Bell for something quick. But doing so really takes a bite out of your budget and does nothing flattering for your waist line!

I was recently able to try out some yummy food from Delicae Gourmet that really did make a few of our weeknight meals MUCH less hectic. Delicae Gourmet has a line of slow cooker meals. You simply need to add a few extra ingredients (such as meat), turn on your Crock Pot, and walk away. We tried out the Big Easy Jambalaya and the Thai Curry Lentil Soup. The jambalaya was very flavorful, and was something with a much more complex flavor than anything we would normally eat on a weeknight. And yet, it was pretty close to effortless to prepare! The Thai Curry Lentil Soup was also a huge hit at my house. It tasted fresh and it felt good eating it, because the ingredients are so very good for you. These sell for $5.95 and $6.15, respectfully. I thought that the price tag was just ok until I made the dishes and realized how excellent they tasted, and even more notably, how much food we had leftover! The box tells you that these make 8-10 servings, and this is the truth, in my experience. Now I think that they are an excellent deal for a tasty home cooked meal!

When you check out Delicae Gourmet’s online store, you’ll quickly see that the slow cooker meals are only one of many different categories of food that they carry. We tried two other items in their line, the Sun Dried Tomato pasta sauce and the Lemon Pomegranate Marmalade. We used the Lemon Pomegranate Marmalade as a filling for crepes. OH MY WORD. This stuff was insanely delicious, and tasted so fresh! I would not hesitate to give this as a gift to someone for the holidays. It is a winner! The Sun Dried Tomato and Basil Pasta Sauce. runs $8.50 per jar, so it costs a bit more than what I normally spend on canned sauces. Therefore, I expected it to really impress me. It honestly did! I thought that it tasted incredibly fresh. If I hadn’t prepared it myself, I would have bet money that the sauce had been made that very day, using all fresh ingredients. I would definitely use this in a dish that I would serve to company, and I might even take the credit for how delicious it is when the guests rave about it (because they definitely will)!

The owners of Delicae Gourmet, Barbara and Lenny, have a passion for gourmet food, and that really comes across in their products. Nothing that I sampled tasted canned, boxed, or stale in the flavor department. I would definitely shop from them again, and I would also recommend that you think of Delicae Gourmet when you are trying to come up with a creative gift for new parents, or for anyone who could use some help in the kitchen!

Buy It! If you are having a difficult time getting good food on your dinner table (that didn’t come from a restaurant) then go ahead and give Delicae Gourmet a try. I promise, their products can help make weeknights less hectic, and the price is much more reasonable than going out to eat!

Win It! The folks at Delicae Gourmet want to give one Stuff Parents Need reader a $25 gift certificate to their store! Shezam! The contest will run until Sunday, December 13th, at 7:59pm CST when a winner will be drawn via random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my winning notification email. Open to residents of the United States.

How to Enter:

Mandatory Entry: Go check out all the amazing products at Delicae Gourmet, and come back here and tell me one thing that isn’t mentioned in the review that you’d love to taste for yourself!

Additional Entries:

1. Subscribe to this blog (3 entries, so leave 3 posts!!!)

2. Make a purchase at Delicae Gourment (leave me the email address you used for the purchase) (5 entries, so leave 5 posts)

Disclosure: I was provided with samples for product review purposes. The views expressed in this post are strictly my own.