07 Jun

Beef burger with olives and feta

Recipe by Kate Murdoch,
Photo by Oliver Ford,

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14 May

Moroccan chicken with chickpeas and olives

Recipe by Valli Little,
Photography by Mark Roper,

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27 Mar

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Recipe by Gemma Luongo,
Photography by Mark O’Meara

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
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04 Oct

Olive oil adds a rich note to apple dessert

Chef Jean Paul Desmaison of La Cofradia restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla. has created this Sauteed Apple Crisp for the North American Olive Oil Association.
Extra-virgin olive oil replaces the butter, offering a mellow, concentrated sweetness to the glazed apples. Sugar, a hint of cinnamon and a handful of raisins complete the apple mixture.
Finally, top with [...]

30 Sep

An olive primer

All olives are not created equal when it comes to martinis. A few guidelines:

The olive doesn’t flavor the liquor so much as the liquor flavors the olive. If you want olive flavor in the drink, make it dirty by adding olive brine or use cracked olives.
Use milder olives in gin martinis so they don’t clash [...]

13 Jun

Olive Oil’s Many Properties

By Johann Fleck,
Olive oil is the crowning glory for grilled seafood, a salad, over Feta cheese or other sheep’s milk cheese. It rounds out pasta dishes and vegetables, and is used to sauté and fry. There is hardly a Mediterranean dish that does not include olive oil in the recipe.
As a result of the high [...]

10 Jun

Chargrilled polenta with roasted capsicum & Olives

Recipe by Valli Little,
Photography by Ian Wallace,

Ingredients (serves 4)

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04 Mar

Black and green Olives cured

Black Oil Cured Olives
Salt-cured olives are flavorful, but somewhat bitter. Staunch olive fans love them. It is best to make these in small batches using Mission black olives as they will not keep more than a month.
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Green Cured Olives
These water-cured olives are flavored with lemon, oregano, wine vinegar, and garlic. These [...]

24 Dec

Chargrilled chicken & olive sandwiches

Recipe by Michelle Southan,
Photography by Steve Brown,

Toasted sandwiches have never looked so good … or tasted so terrific!
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time : 20 minutes
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11 Dec

Replacing the butter with olive oil when baking

By Julia Cameron,
Photo Peter Monsees,
This holiday season, your goal to keep a healthful diet and lifestyle might be forgotten easily when the temptation from cookies and cakes wields more power than the call of your treadmill.
But you can have your cake and eat it too, said Lisa A. Sheldon, a nutritionist and cookbook author whose [...]

30 Nov

Silverbeet & olive tart with parmesan crust

Recipe by Valli Little,
Photography by Geoff Lung,

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30 Oct

Antipasto Pizza with Pitted Kalamata Olives

Recipe by Michelle Southan,
Photography by Ben Dearnley,

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time ; 25 minutes
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18 Oct

Deep-fried stuffed olives

Recipe by Janelle Bloom,
Photography by Louise Lister,

Makes 12
Ingredients:

2 pieces preserved lemon
12 large green olives stuffed with feta cheese
2 sheets ready-rolled frozen puff pastry, thawed
vegetable oil, for deep-frying

Method:

Remove and discard flesh from preserved lemon. Thinly slice rind. Cut a small slit along each olive. Press a strip of preserved lemon rind into each slit.
Cut six 8cm [...]

08 Oct

Olive & rosemary focaccia

Recipe by Kerrie Sun,
Photography by Steve Brown,

Savour this soft focaccia studded with olives and rosemary as part of an authentic antipasto platter or with a hearty Italian-style soup.
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
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22 Sep

Pumpkin couscous salad with Olives

Recipe by Sophia Young,
Photography by Andrew Lehmann,

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