Giveaway: DeLallo Foods

Most of you know that I’m an Italian girl. I grew up around Italian foods and traditions my entire life. My grandfather had a commercial-grade deli slicer in his basement and would buy a whole prosciutto leg and slice it thinly as needed. We do the fish tradition on Christmas Eve. Our cookie jars were filled with homemade biscotti instead of Oreos or chocolate chip cookies.
Pittsburgh is a pretty ethnic city with lots of Italians, so it’s not hard to find traditional ingredients at regular grocery stores or little Italian groceries sprinkled throughout the city and suburbs. One of my favorite brands is one from right here in Pittsburgh – DeLallo. They make pastas, sauces, spreads, marinated artichokes and olives, olive oils, vinegars, and much more. I actually just used a jar of their crushed tomatoes to make pizza sauce last night! Their products are phenomenal and I want to share a huge basket of them with you!
As I mentioned in the Sarris Candies giveaway, this year I am foregoing the big holiday giveaways and focusing on just a couple of local Pittsburgh businesses that I genuinely love and want to share with you. DeLallo is definitely one of them! So, I am giving away this DeLallo Italian Feast gift basket to one lucky reader:
This amazing gift basket includes all of the following items:
- Artichoke bruschetta
- 2 packages of traditional breadsticks
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Pesto sauce in olive oil
- Blue cheese stuffed olives
- Potato gnocchi
- Marinara sauce
- Vodka sauce
- Roasted red peppers
- Organic whole wheat penne rigate
- Organic whole wheat fettuccine
- Penne rigate
- Linguine
- Whole grain cinnamon, almond, and oats biscotti
- Lasagna
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Balsamic vinegar spray
- Full-length white DeLallo apron
- DeLallo recipe book
An Italian feast for sure!!
After you enter to win, I also encourage you to check out DeLallo’s website – they have a blog, kitchen tips and techniques, and tons of recipes. A great foodie resource (and not required to enter, I just think it’s a great site!).
How to Enter
To enter to win the DeLallo Italian Feast gift basket above, simply leave a comment and answer the question; “What’s your favorite Italian food?” It could be anything – an appetizer, an ingredient, a cookie, dessert, whatever your favorite is!
You can receive up to four additional entries to win by doing the following:
1. Subscribe to Brown Eyed Baker by either RSS or email. Come back and let me know you’ve subscribed in an additional comment.
2. Follow @browneyedbaker on Twitter. Come back and let me know you’ve followed in an additional comment.
3. Tweet the following about the giveaway: “RT @browneyedbaker: DeLallo Foods Giveaway! Enter to win a massive Italian Feast gift basket: http://ow.ly/3nM6j”. Come back and let me know you’ve Tweeted in an additional comment.
4. Become a fan of Brown Eyed Baker on Facebook. Come back and let me know you became a fan in an additional comment.
Deadline: Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 11:59pm EST
Winner: The winner will be chosen at random using and emailed. If the winner does not respond within 24 hours, another winner will be selected.
Disclaimer: The gift basket above is provided by DeLallo Foods. This post, however, is not sponsored and all that was written about DeLallo is my own sentiment.
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This giveaway is now CLOSED. Congratulations to commenter #347, Jessica!

Mariah won the Italian Feast gift basket by following Tweeting about the contest!

Enjoy all of the Italian goodies Jessica!







Any kind of pasta, fresh pasta!
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I’m a sweet tooth and coffee lover, so Tiramisu! Hummmm!
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I love everything Italian but I have to say pizza takes first place, even if my favorite kinds are pretty Americanized. I also love lasagna, stuffed shells, manicotti, spaghetti carbonara…everything!
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My favorite Italian food is bread, especially with lots of garlic and herbs!
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I follow you on twitter
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I am subscribed to your RSS feed!
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I tweeted this giveaway
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I like you/am a fan on facebook too!
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Love Italian food. Yum. I’m a fan of pretty much anything with a red sauce and cheese. If I have to choose, I’d probably go with Lasagna.
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I subscribe to your RSS feed
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This post struck a chord with me, because I too grew up surrounded by Italian food (my mother’s side were Waterbury, CT Italians, and my aunt now lives in Pittsburgh!) After working on a farm outside of Bologna, I have to say that my leanings towards Italian food revolve largely around what can be done with tomatoes and zucchini. I love baby zucchini and fiori di zucca risotta! But, when push comes to shove, give me a nice scoop of gelato (chocolate hazelnut) and I will be happy!
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I follow you on my blogger dashboard
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Now a fan on facebook (and passed this on to my mother and aunt!)
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Homemade gnocchi!
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I follow you via RSS.
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My favorite is Tiramisu!!
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I like you on FB.
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I also follow blog via email.
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Easy. Tiramisu.
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I’m also a RSS subscriber.
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my dad’s lasagna!!
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Panna cotta!
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Oooh that’s easy..PASTA..Pasta, pasta, Pasta! ALL Pasta..with any kind of Veg or cheese..gnocchi …stuffed pasta…flat pasta..shapes…YUM…
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I am an Italian girl thru and thru. It’s almost impossible to pick one favorite Italian food, but if I had too, I would say pasta! Any pasta will do.
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It’s so hard to choose. I guess I’d go with meatballs. The basket looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
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I am now a fan on Facebook.
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gelato!
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I LOVE tiramisu. It’s one of my favorites to eat AND make
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I already follow you on RSS
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Such a hard choice! I was lucky enough to visit Italy earlier this year, and ate quite a bit of gelato (there was a festival in Florence!), biscotti, panforte, cheese, and pasta. I think my favorite meal of the trip was a little place in Rome that served a delicious orecchiette pasta. Yum!
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Tiramisu! Had it last night, yum!
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Ahhh, lasagne!
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I am an email subscriber. Ciao!
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My wife’s stuffed shells, spaghetti with meatballs or lasagna. Or anything italian she cooks for me!
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How to pick just one….probably good old fresh fettucine with alfredo and seafood.
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My favorite Italian food is Eggplant Parmesan. I get your e-mail every day.
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I love lots of Italian foods but if I could only choose one it would be lemon granita.
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Meatballs, with wonderful red sauce. But of course, anything italian is the best of any cuisine. My favorite is simple pasta, olives and olive oil.
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I also follow you on Twitter. And I love a good red gravy with meatballs and spaghetti.
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I am following you on Twitter.
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I tweeted too.
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I am a fan on Facebook.
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I subscribed via email.
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I’ve just tweeted this on Twitter. “RT @browneyedbaker: DeLallo Foods Giveaway! Enter to win a massive Italian Feast gift basket: http://ow.ly/3nM6j”. I also like your Italian Walnut Pillow cookies.
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If I must select only one…prosciutto. It’s sublime on it’s own, but in addition, it enhances everything you set it with, as an appetizer, slivered into peas or brussels sprouts or asparagus, pastas, cheeses, and fruit.It is, by any standard, a great culinary gift from Italy. Admittedly, there are many others, but prosciutto is salty, silky, sweetly savory food for the gods!
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Fav Italian food is Gnocchi!!!!!
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Spaghetti!
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buffalo mozzarella! simple as that.
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I’m a subscriber!
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Im a fan on facebook.
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You know anything Italian is so good, it would be hard to give a favorite.
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Is tiramisu authentic Italian? If it is, that’s my favorite.
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Fettucine Alfredo with fresh pasta noodles. Today, tomorrow, and always. Heavenly!
I’m afraid I am already a member of the others, although RSS is my preference. Well done supporting a local business! Very admirable! Happy holidays!
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My favorite Italian food would have to be olive oil gelato! I’ve only had it in New York but oh man, it’s incredible!
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All pasta plus I follow you by emial.
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Tiramisu!!!
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home made ravioli!
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Um anything Italian is my favorite!!! We have a really good restaurant here in Memphis that serves this homemade pasta with Prosciutto, yummy cheese, rolled, baked until crispy and served with a buttery/creamy sauce. YUM!!
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My dads side of the family is Italian and every Christmas Eve he makes his grandmother’s ravioli recipe. It’s to die for!
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Wow. Favorite Italian food is a serious tie between tiramisu and baked gnocchi. Oddly, but that’s it!
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And! I got to this giveaway by already being an RSS subscriber!
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Somehow, I was not already a twitter follower of yours. But I am now! And the suggested others to be followed were great!
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Well, um. Its kinda funny, I’m not allowed to tweet/retweet on twitter… My guy says I get passive-aggressive on there…LOL, but I LIKED on fb!!
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I love all Italian food! Lasagna is always a favorite!
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Mmmmm…cannolis…hands down.
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Either cannoli or tortellini…but there are so many good things to choose from!
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Pizza for sure!
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um, cheese! Does that count?
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Most any pasta with a red sauce is a favorite of mine. I subscribe via email.
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I’m a fan on Facebook too!
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How can you go wrong with any italian dish! One of my all time favorites is bolognese! So delicious! And of course any desert, with chocolate!!
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I am also a facebook fan
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Wow! This looks amazing!! Lasagna hands down for me.
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My favorite Italian food is definitely cannoli. My mom is Italian and makes them and they are sooo good!
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Lasagna!!
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Gnocchi in a rosa sauce
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marinated artichokes. yummmy.
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already a subscriber
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marinated artichokes. yummmy.
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I used to live and work in Bloomfield and just LOVED the Italian markets and wonderful mom and pop restaurants. I think one of my favorites is a really good Italian Wedding Soup or well-made spinach and ricotta ravioli. I used to stock pile those and homemade sauce in my freezer.
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I love tiramisu
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I am in love with pretty much all Italian food….do I really have to pick just one? Ok, I do believe I order the Manicotti from the restaurant in my neighbourhood evertime I go there! So delicious!
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I follow you on twitter.
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My favorite Italian food would be cannoli with ricotta filling. Runners up include gnocchi, and just about anything else.
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I subscribe by e-mail!
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Lasagna or pizza!
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My favorite italian restaurant serves a dish – seafood linguine with white wine sauce – that is to DIE for! That, and then tiramisu for dessert. Perfect!
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Homemade lasagna!
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My fave Italian dish is stuffed shells (My son loves this too, he even helps me make it!)
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I subscribed to follow BEB via email
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Gnocchi with pesto is a favorite!~ And also Pasta Fazool (fagioli)– a childhood comfort food.
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Butternut squash ravioli! YUMMY!
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I’m a fan on facebook.
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I am an email subscriber!
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I’m a subscriber.
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