I was gifted with 375 mL of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, flavored with Blood Oranges. I am looking for some suggestions, besides salad dressing.
How would you use this?
How would you use this?
Reading too many soap making books. My first thought was.. Send it to me! I'll make Dish washing liquid with it.
Will these do instead?
Blood Orange Olive Oil Recipes
The Olive Oil Place
Munky.
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago; my local gourmet store has an "olive oil bar" and I succumbed to temptation and then went what the heck?
I think it would be good to lightly sautee some veggies in it and serve over pasta or rice, hot or cold.
Marinade some chicken strips or shrimp in it, then either grill or bread and sautee, broil, or bake.
Toss some with some already steamed/boiled shrimp for an appetizer.
Ummm....Asparagus! Yum!
It might turn into an interesting home made mayo...
I said the same thing to Chef Munky in PM...we were discussing the beauty aspects of olive oil...shiny!
Don't use olive oil as suntan lotion. When I was on vacation in Spain in the early 70s, they sold olive oil as suntan lotion. I don't burn easily, but I was getting sunburnt. I didn't use it one day and didn't burn. I used it again after a few days of not burning and sure 'nuff, I burnt again.
I learned that one in the 70's too, only it was baby oil...we were talking about it as a moisturizer mayo for hair.
Besides, I never go out in daylight anyway...I slink around in the shadows. If there is a chance sunlight might be a problem, I have my handy-dandy SPF 6000.
Olive oil is worse. I used to use mineral oil and never had a problem with that.
I tasted the Blood Orange olive oil when I was at The Old Oil Shop in Chicago...but passed it up and went with the Persian lime olive oil instead. On Saturday, I used it as part of a marinade for tiger shrimp (BBQ'd). I added roasted garlic, chipolte chili powder (1/8th tsp), red pepper flakes, fresh chopped chives from the garden, and fresh majoram, and about 2 T of pear wine. The shrimp was YUMMY. I made a dipping sauce for the shrimp using the same and topped the shrimp with a sauce of tomatoes, garlic, majoram, and a drop of habernaro pepper sauce.
I've used the lime olive oil for salad dressing. My discussion with the shop owner was that the citrus-flavored olive oils work well with chicken, seafood, salad, and veggies. The bottle is small, so I'm saving it for special things now--chicken, seafood, and maybe asparagus...
I use EVOO as a moisturizer on my skin (this is my nighttime moisturizer). It works well.