Hey look what I got! OLIVES Easy to when you live in the middle of an olive grove in Tuscany. But even I must buy olives to preserve. My neighbors did give me olives as a nice gesture when I gave them some of my freshly pressed oil from the Becchina Estates in Castelvetrano. But…
Salt- Cured Olives
The olive harvest began a little early this year, at the end of October, many people wait till November 3- something about numbers. When the olives are harvested for oil, some of them are still green, giving the oil here a peppery flavor. As we get farther into the season the olives ripen to black…
Olive progress, meeting the neighbors.
Here is a progress report on my bonsai olive tree.. I took it to meet the neighbors olives and to compare the size of the olives. They are the same! My neighbors olive trees are full, it will be a great year for oil. We live next door to the local cooperative olive press,so don’t…