Sunday, March 20, 2011

10 Different Mediterranean Foods to Eat With Olives.

 The most popular way to eat olives is right out of the can, many people will pop one in their mouth while preparing a nice dish, or a family member will steal one when your back is turned. Here are a few different food combination's for eating stuffed olives.
1. Pimento.
2. Almond.
3. Capers.
4. Monterrey Jack cheese and jalapeno.
5. Garlic slice , fried almond, chili pepper flake.
6. Anchovy, garlic, chili pepper flake, anchovy paste will make this very easy to create.
7. Red Bell pepper, garlic, chili flake.
8. Blue cheese and garlic.
9. Almond and pimento.
10.  Sweet Italian sausage, and or bacon, garlic, chili pepper flake.
Olives are a great way to present a variety of tastes to one plate. Wine and cheese parties usually have an olive plate. Next time you can make a variety of stuffed olives and have little cards telling your friends what is inside them or you can have a little fun and keep the cards to your self and see if your guests can identify all the flavors. Another suggestion is to have sample wines that pair up with the ingredients stuffed inside your olive. Another way to eat olives is as a tapenade.

Tapenade is a fancy word for puree. You can use green or black olives for your tapenade, black olives will present better as a puree to your guests than a green puree. The easiest way to make black olive tapenade is to put anchovy, capers, garlic, Dijon, thyme, bay leaf, parsley, chili pepper flake, in a food processor. Turn it on and begin to add olive oil. When your mixture is coarsely mixed transfer to a bowl for serving.