I was trying to think about anything unusual relating to food that I had had recently. Something that might make a good gift for Christmas or just something interesting to try. A gift for yourself, if you would.
About 2 months ago I was invited to the grand opening of an artisanal olive oil producer, Lucero Olive Oils. They are located in Northern California and produce a wonderful variety of olive oils, balsamic vinegars and tapenades and mustards. Everything that I tried was good.
However, the most interesting thing I had was Chocolate Olive Oil over ice cream. It was delicious and unusual. A wonderful chocolate flavor with the silky (I was thinking slippery but silky makes better marketing) mouthfeel of olive oil. And still the hints of olive. It was extremely good over vanilla ice cream. I also tried their lemon infused olive oil which was also very good over ice cream and I think would be very good drizzled over some linguine along with some toasted pine nuts and sizzled garlic.
A must for the Choco-Holic who has everything.
If you want to try something different and delicious, order a bottle of the Chocolate Olive Oil. You can show off to your friends and give them an experience that they probably never had before. Be the first one on your block to have some.
Erik Nabler,
N.B. Guest blogger Erik Nabler blogs regularly about drinks and drinking at the Liquor Locusts.
Oooh. What if we used this chocolate olive oil to make ice cream–a twist on the olive oil ice cream idea.
Comment by aurumgirl — December 14, 2010 @ 6:54 am
An interesting twist. The old doubletrick as my son would say.
Comment by Erik Nabler — December 14, 2010 @ 9:48 am
I wonder what this would be like drizzled over some fresh figs.
Comment by raincoaster — December 14, 2010 @ 7:57 pm