Every year when the
Prince Albert Olive Festival breezes by we think, Next year…we’re there! And
every year we miss it. We missed it this year too but received a box of fresh
raw olives from family members who did get their ducks in a row in time to go.
If you’ve every plucked a fresh sumptuous olive from the tree and popped it
expectantly into your mouth, you’d know it tastes revolting and it takes a
couple of weeks of soaking in salt water to get the bitterness out of it. It’s
a little easier to dry them in salt than to pickle them, but they won’t keep as
long. We did a bit of both and this is the result!
My kids even pickled
their own, I have reservations about how my son’s will turn out, he decided to
put a bit of everything in.…ginger, Seschuan pepper, Stevia, Rosemary….still
beats supermarket olives!
And P.S: I experienced
the great joy of removing my orange ribbon this morning! While I was pickling
olives my friend was giving birth to a healthy baby boy, in the comfort of her
own home with a doula and a midwife. And no drugs in sight! Woohoo!! What an
awesome warrior mama she is!
:-)
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