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Fruity Pecan Salad With Blood Orange Vinaigrette

Fruity Pecan Salad With Blood Orange Vinaigrette
Serves 8
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For the Salad
  1. 2 medium pears or apples, sliced
  2. 2 pkg (total 10 oz) mixed greens
  3. 1 small red onion, diced
  4. 6 slices bacon, crumbled
  5. 1/2 C feta cheese, crumbled
  6. 1/2 C pecans, toasted
For the Vinaigrette
  1. 1/2 C of one of Olivia's Blood Orange Olive Oil
  2. 1/4 C of Olivia's Maple Balsamic
  3. 2 tsp dijon mustard
  4. 1/4 tsp salt
  5. 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
  1. In large bowl, lightly toss all salad ingredients to combine.
  2. In small bowl, whisk Blood Orange Olive Oil, Maple Balsamic, dijon mustard, salt, and pepper until well-blended. Serve on side of salad or pour over salad (amount to taste) and toss to lightly coat.
Notes
  1. Any remaining vinaigrette can be stored in air-tight container in refrigerator up to one week.
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Summer Peach Balsamic Pizza

Summer Peach Balsamic Pizza
Serves 2
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Ingredients
  1. 1 batch pizza dough (use your favorite recipe, or use mine here)
  2. 1 cup Olivia's Peach White Balsamic
  3. 2 tablespoons Olivia's Bacon Olive Oil (Use Habanero Olive Oil to spice it up! Or non-flavored olive oil as well)
  4. 8 ounces fresh mozzarella, sliced or grated
  5. 2 ounces soft goat cheese, crumbled
  6. 4 peaches, pitted and thinly sliced
  7. 1/2 cup coarsely chopped basil
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F or as high as your oven will go. If you have a pizza stone, preheat the stone in the oven for at least 30 minutes to allow it to get thoroughly hot.
  2. Divide dough into tennis-ball sized pieces.
  3. Take one piece of dough and punch it down on a lightly floured surface.
  4. Roll the dough out into a circle approximately 1/4-inch thin.
  5. Place the pizza on a pizza peel or pan that has been generously coated with corn meal.
  6. Lightly brush with 1 tablespoon of Bacon Olive Oil.
  7. Top with mozzarella, goat cheese, and peach slices.
  8. Drizzle the pizza with Peach White Balsamic.
  9. Repeat for remaining pizzas.
  10. Place the pizza in the oven-directly on the pizza stone, if using one, or on the oven rack.
  11. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until pizza crust is golden and cheese is melted.
  12. Remove from oven and top with basil and drizzle with peach white balsamic.
  13. Cut into slices and serve.
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Spicy Grilled Pork Chops with Balsamic Peaches

Spicy Grilled Pork Chops with Balsamic Peaches
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Ingredients
  1. 2 thick cut, bone-in pork chops
  2. 2 cups apple cider
  3. 2 cups water
  4. ½ cup granulated sugar
  5. ⅓ cup kosher salt
  6. 2 sprigs rosemary
  7. 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
  8. 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
  9. Olivia's Habanero Olive Oil
  10. kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
For the grilled peach salsa
  1. 2 peaches, pitted and halved
  2. 2 tablespoons Habanero Olive Oil, divided
  3. 3 teaspoons granulated sugar, divided
  4. ½ cup slivered red onion
  5. 3 teaspoons Olivia's Peach White Balsamic
  6. 1½ teaspoons Vietnamese chili garlic sauce
  7. Kosher salt
  8. fresh basil leaves
Instructions
  1. Rinse the pork chops, pat dry and place in a freezer bag.
  2. Bring the apple cider, water, ½ cup sugar and ⅓ cup kosher salt to a boil in a small saucepan. Stir until sugar and salt dissolves.
  3. Remove from heat and add a few ice cubes to cool the brine.
  4. Allow to cool completely then add to the freezer bags with the pork chops along with the rosemary sprigs, garlic cloves and black peppercorns.
  5. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours up to overnight.
  6. Remove the pork chops from the brine and discard the brine.
  7. Pat the pork dry with a paper towel and lightly brush with olive oil and season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.
  8. Preheat one side of the grill to high and one side to low.
  9. Brown the chops for about 5 minutes or until nice grill marks develop and then turn to the other side and cook for another 5 minutes. Turn the chops over and move them to the low-heat part of the grill.
  10. Cook for another 10-12 minutes or until the pork reaches an internal temperature of 155 degrees in the thickest part of the chop.
  11. Transfer to a platter and tent with aluminum foil for about 5 minutes and chops reach 160 degrees.
  12. While pork chops are cooking on the low temperature side of the grill, lightly coat the peach halves on the fleshy side of the fruit with 1 tablespoon of Habanero Olive Oil and sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of the sugar.
  13. Grill the peaches flesh side down on the high temperature side of the grill for about 4-5 minutes on each side. Transfer to a cutting board and cut into slices.
  14. Mix the red onions with the remaining tablespoon of habanero olive oil, peach white balsamic, chili garlic sauce, 1 teaspoon sugar and a pinch of kosher salt. Add the sliced peaches to the red onions and gently mix.
  15. Top the pork chops with the peaches and onion mix and garnish with torn basil leaves.
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Habanero Hot Sauce

Habanero Hot Sauce
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Ingredients
  1. 1 tbsp Olivia's Habanero Olive Oil
  2. 1 cup chopped carrots
  3. 1/2 cup chopped onions
  4. 5 cloves garlic, minced
  5. 1/4 cup water
  6. 1/4 cup lime juice
  7. 1 tbsp lime zest
  8. 1/4 cup white vinegar
  9. 1 tomato
  10. sea salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Heat the Habanero Olive Oil in a sauce pan over medium heat.
  2. Cook and stir the carrots, oil, onion, and garlic in the hot oil until soft, about 10 minutes.
  3. Transfer the mixture to a blender or food processor.
  4. Add water, lime juice, vinegar, tomato and lime zest to the blender/processor and blend until smooth.
  5. Season with salt and pepper to taste, transfer the mixture to a saucepan and simmer for 3-5 minutes.
  6. Simmering at the end gives the sauce a more liquid consistency.
Notes
  1. Not hot enough?? Throw in a couple of habanero peppers! (stems removed)
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Black Cherry Balsamic BBQ Sauce

Black Cherry Balsamic BBQ Sauce
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Ingredients
  1. 2 tablespoons Olivia's Bacon Olive Oil
  2. 1 sweet onion, diced
  3. 2 garlic cloves, minced
  4. 2 cups dark sweet cherries, pitted and stems removed
  5. 1 cup ketchup
  6. 2/3 cup brown sugar
  7. 1/3 cup Olivia's Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar
  8. 1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  9. 2 tsp ground mustard
  10. 1/2 tsp black pepper
Instructions
  1. Heat the Bacon Olive Oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
  2. Add in the onion and saute for about 5 minutes.
  3. Add in the garlic and saute for another minute or two.
  4. Stir in the cherries, ketchup, brown sugar, Black Cherry Balsamic, worcestershire sauce, ground mustard, and black pepper.
  5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes.
  6. Transfer to a blender or food processor (or keep it in the pan and use an immersion blender). Blend until smooth.
  7. Return to pan. Bring it back to a simmer and continue simmering for another 10 minutes.
Notes
  1. Using fresh cherries and wonder how you should pit them? Slice off the stem and then just use your fingers to pinch the pit out. It’s actually super easy and makes it go a lot faster than trying to slice off all the flesh of the cherry around the pit.
  2. You can also use frozen cherries as well.
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Bacon Pasta Shells with Bolognese Sauce

Bacon Pasta Shells with Bolognese Sauce
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Ingredients
  1. 12-15 Large Pasta Shells
Filling
  1. 2 tbsp. chopped onion
  2. 1 clove minced garlic
  3. 2 tbsp. Olivia's Bacon Olive Oil
  4. 1 tbsp. butter
  5. 1 pkg. frozen, chopped spinach, drained well
  6. 1/2 tsp. tsp. grated nutmeg
  7. 1/3 c. Parmesan
  8. 1 whole egg
  9. 1/4 tsp. salt
  10. 1/4 tsp. pepper
  11. 3 tbsp. Ricotta cheese
Sauce
  1. 1 small carrot, diced
  2. 1 rib celery, diced
  3. 1/4 tsp. salt
  4. 1/4 tsp. pepper
  5. 1 med. onion, minced
  6. 1/4 c. red wine
  7. 1 garlic clove, minced
  8. 2 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce
  9. 2 to 3 tbsp. Olivia's Bacon Olive Oil
  10. 1/3 c. beef broth
  11. 3/4 lb. ground chuck
  12. 1/2 tsp. thyme
  13. Additional Parmesan
  14. 1/2 tsp. basil
  15. 1/4 tsp. sugar
Instructions
  1. Cook shells according to package directions. Drain, rinse in cold water. Dry on paper towels.
Filling
  1. Saute onion in Bacon Olive Oil over medium heat and add butter and add garlic. Cook until onion is limp.
  2. Add spinach and seasonings. Cook briefly.
  3. Put in food processor with steel blade (puree slightly) or mix by hand.
  4. Add Ricotta, Parmesan and egg.
  5. Combine again in processor or by hand.
  6. Either spoon mixture into pasta shells or fill, using a pastry bag.
Sauce
  1. Saute carrot, celery, onion and garlic in Bacon Olive Oil until limp
  2. Add beef; cook until no longer pink.
  3. Stir in seasonings beef broth, tomato sauce and wine.
  4. Cook 20 to 30 minutes until thickened.
To serve
  1. Spoon most of the sauce into large au gratin dish, top with shells, spoon a little sauce over each shell.
  2. Sprinkle with Parmesan.
  3. Cover loosely with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.
  4. Sauce is nice on its own over any type of pasta. Freezes well.
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Butter Olive Oil Herb Roasted Potatoes

Butter Olive Oil Herb Roasted Potatoes
Serves 2
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 10 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 10 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 1/2 pounds baby (small) or fingerling potatoes
  2. 1/4 cup Olivia's Butter Olive Oil
  3. 2 heads garlic, top trimmed
  4. 1/2 tablespoon chopped parsley leaves
  5. 1/2 lemon, cut into wedges
  6. 5-6 sprigs thymes
  7. Scant 1/4 teaspoon salt
  8. 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Cut slits on the potatoes, do not cut through.
  3. Place the potatoes in a roasting pan and brush with the Butter Olive Oil.
  4. Add the garlic, parsley, lemon and thyme in the pan, in between the potatoes.
  5. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
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Pineapple Balsamic Lemonade Cocktail

Pineapple Balsamic Lemonade Cocktail
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Ingredients
  1. 10 lemons, juiced, approx 1 cup of lemon juice
  2. 3/4 cup super fine sugar
  3. 4 cups water
  4. 1 – 2 tsp Olivia Pineapple Balsamic Vinegar
  5. 1 cup vodka (optional)
Instructions
  1. Combine the lemon juice, sugar and water in a large pitcher and mix to combine.
  2. Add the Pineapple Balsamic Vinegar and taste.
  3. Adjust amount of balsamic if needed.
  4. If you wish, add vodka and stir.
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Pineapple Apricot Chicken Skewers

Pineapple Apricot Chicken Skewers
Serves 4
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Ingredients
  1. 32 oz jar of pineapple apricot preserves
  2. 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
  3. 3 tablespoons Olivia's Pineapple White Balsamic Vinegar
  4. 2 tablespoons honey
  5. 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  6. salt and pepper
  7. 4 chicken breasts, cubed (You could ad as many as 6 breasts)
  8. 8-10 bamboo skewers
Instructions
  1. Combine the ingredients in a gallon zip lock bag except chicken. Mix well.
  2. Add chicken, mix in and marinate from 2 hours to all day. The longer the better.
  3. Soak the skewers for 10 minutes or more before grilling.
  4. Add the chicken to the skewers, grill over medium and enjoy!
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Pineapple Glazed Salmon w/Persian Lime EVOO

Pineapple Glazed Salmon w/Persian Lime EVOO
Serves 2
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Ingredients
  1. 2 (4-6oz) salmon fillets
  2. 1-2 Tbsp honey
  3. 1-2 Tbsp Olivia's Pineapple White Balsamic
  4. 2 Tbsp Olivia's Persian Lime Olive Oil
  5. salt and pepper
Instructions
  1. In a small bowl, whisk together honey, Pineapple Balsamic, and Persian Lime Olive Oil together. Taste and add more honey or balsamic if needed. (Depending on how sweet your vinegar is, you may want more honey).
  2. Pour half of the glaze into a zip-top bag or airtight container. Add salmon to the bag or container.
  3. Marinate 10-45 minutes. Reserve remaining glaze.
  4. Place salmon skin side down on a baking sheet lined with foil.
  5. Set an oven rack 5-6 inches from the heat.
  6. Broil salmon for 3 minutes.
  7. Brush the second half of the glaze over the salmon.
  8. Broil another 3-4 minutes. Check for doneness.
  9. Broil an additional 1-3 minutes as needed
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