Follow-up on OLIVES

“These kick every form of ass: extant and extinct.


Santa Barbara Olive Company
P.O. Box 1570
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-1570
(805)688-9917
(805)686-1659 FAX
sbolive@thegrid.net

Santa Barbara Olive Company Inc. is owned and operated by an eighth generation Santa Barbara family. We offer over 80 items in five different sizes all derive from the OLIVE. Santa Barbara Olives are all natural, Kosher certified and low in sodium. Choose from a variety of Olives, Olive Oils, Chunky Olive Salsas and Chunky Olive Pasta and Pesto Sauces. Santa Barbara Olive Company enjoys distribution in over 9,000 stores nationwide, as well as representation in Canada, Mexico and overseas. To order call toll free 800-4SB-OLIV, visit the website or stop by the family farm in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County.

The Olives”

“Tilt - Food is not gear.”

“Sure it is.”

“Martini Gear, Einstein.

And for you folks who have a thing for tomatoes, be sure to check out Tomolives® (if you haven't already...).

Small green tomatoes, about the size of an olive, pickled. GREAT in a martini. People usually have no idea what hit 'em the first time, LOL! It's worth the trouble of locating these things just to see the look on people's faces when they bite down on one and realise it's not an olive....”

“Not too many martini bars in the backcountry, Einstein. ;-)”

“That the Mt. Olive Pickle Company is located in Mt. Olive North Carolina at the corner of Cucumber and Vine streets?”

“LOL...are you serious???”

“I love olives - I was thrilled to find olives that come in a plastic bag for backpacking!

o(=D

and I looooove dirty martinis straight up with three olives...”

“dirty girl”

“that does sound nasty, doesn't it, LOL...”

“You have to set up your own Martini Bar, <G>

Now searching for acrylic martini glasses....

I guess this would be a Cold Weather Activity (unless you want to lug the ice around, LOL)”

“Of course it's nasty.... if you're doing it right!



Oh, HERE ya go...




Bingo!


Now all I need are some tiny olive spears that look like trekking poles.”

“do the stems unscrew like the lexan wine glass does?

For martinis in summer - chill the ingredients in a cold mountain stream.”

“Hmmmm... I think those are one-piece. I'll bet there are some 2-piece models out there somewhere, though.


HA! Their 'Dirty Martini Kit' includes a t-shirt that says:

"Happiness is Clean Underwear and a Dirty Martini"”

“and I bet you'll find 'em!”

“i got a jar of olives yesterday. i am SO ready for the weekend!”

“C'mon Tilt. I know its funny to call olives gear and all, and I like to browse the off topic threads sometimes, but I also like the new feature to be able to turn off the off topic stuff. It's not cool to see your olive thread when I want to look at gear. Not trying to be an ass or anything, but I think this new system can work if we stick to it.”

“I just ate the ultimate left-over chicken sandwich, BTW. yesterday evening I cooked - well I'll translate it into English. On a sheet of HD alufoil brush a little of the olive oil that is in the roasted peppers jar.

Place (½) a boneless, skinless chicken breast and place roasted peppers, sliced black olives and capers on top. Fold up the foil and bake in a 450° oven for 20-25 minutes.

I put the leftovers in a whole weat panino with a touch of mayonnaise and lettuce.

BTW, in my younger and more urbane days, I'd keep a bottle of Moskovskaya or Wyborowa in the freezer with a shot removed for lemon juice. When people would insist on a DRY martini, this would kick their @$$.”

“I guess I killed this thread.”

“Thanks a lot gremlin, no I'm hungry.”

“I've been hankering for hummus for the last few days...I'm gonna try and make my own, it's pretty simple. If you can find tahini, that is...”

“When I was visiting my daughter in northern Ontario we had a kick-@$$ hors d'oeuvre in a restaurant. It was hummus blended with goat cheese and roasted peppers. It was served as a dip with miniature pitas. I've been meaning to try to duplicate it - I have some feta in the fridge, perhaps I'll try this evening.

Now I'm really hungry.”

“Dinner at gremlin's.
:D”

“I found a recipe for hummus with roasted peppers on the internet. It looked good. Turns out you can put just about anything in hummus.”

“Twiggy sent me a box of hummus.
Add olive oil and it's good to go.
I think I'll try it tonight.

I set a small bottle of olive oil in my fridge and it turned all creamy looking. Is it still alright to use?”

“It probably just congealed from being in the fridge and turn liquid again at room temp.”

“Yes, it's fine to use, SS, it will become fully liquid when it returns to room temps. Olive oil is best stored at room temp away from direct sunlight. It will last forever.”

“Thanks guys! We don't use to much olive oil down here.
It isn't LARD. ;-)”

“LMAO, SS.”

“John -- I messed up your column of 'gear only' threads? Sorry, but that does sound just a bit anal to me.


Twigeater -- I'm one step ahead of ya. I found some glasses last night that looked like they might be two-piece, but I couldn't be sure (and they didn't specify) so I'm now awaiting a reply to my email.”

“I made the hummus. It's pretty good, but I oversalted it a bit. It's lacking...something, can't but my finger on it exactly. But it's pretty close.

I couldn't find tahini, so I had to buy sesame seeds and make my own. That's difficult, but it worked out okay.”

“I got a reply after a second email... no such luck: they were one-piece.



These are weird enough....



Aclylic glasses with LEDs”

“I guess my two piece lexan wine glass will have to double as a martini glass. :(

Stomper, how did you like the hummus?

Olive oil does turn creamy in the fridge. I was always told to store some ready to use in the cupboard, but the rest in the fridge so it doesn't get rancid.”

“The hummus was pretty good. I could see using it on the trail. :-) Thanks!

I've got some of those two piece lexan wine glasses too. Got them for my sailboat, but have never used them.”

“I've got the acrylic pints and the champagne flutes. I like to whack 'em together and watch people jump back, LOL




These acrylic Pilseners look pretty snazzy.”

“I guess my two piece lexan wine glass will have to double as a martini glass. :(

lol, i have the same one”

“"Aclylic glasses with LEDs"
Tilt
12:43:37 PM

dat's velly funny, Tirt!”

“Gin-induced speech impediment.... so solly!”

“Seriously, if kept in a reasonbly cool, dark place olive oil will last forever. Amphorae of perfectly good olive oil thousands, yes thousands, of years old have been retrieved from wrecks in the Mediterranean - dating from the time of classical Greece.

I was in Montreal Saturday and saw stainless steel martini goblets. I have the lexan and the stainless steel wine glasses, but I don't drink what Patrick McManus called 'camping sandtinis'.”

“I think the bottom of the Med definitely qualifies and 'dark and cool'.

'Sandtinis' sound a bit gritty... tough on the molars, lol”