Quantcast
• Shopperati Home
• Shopperati Blog
• Top Shopping Bloggers
• Style Chronicles
• Gadgets and Advice
• Gift Guides
• Help for Shoppers
• Best of the Blog
 
Advertisement

Flavor Magic: Olive Oil with a Twist
Blogged under Food by Katherine Tanney on Monday 4 August 2008

Next time you plan to stir-fry some veggies, sauté a chicken breast or mix up a batch of salad dressing using olive oil, see what a difference flavor-infused oil can make. Perhaps you dunked your bread into some oil with a sprig or leaf in it last time you were at the yuppie Italian joint, but have you tasted a crisp green salad with ruby grapefruit-infused oil? Pearson Ranch has a line of citrus olive oils. For $16, you can get about eight ounces of orangic Meyer lemon, blood orange, Tahitian lime or organic jalapeno lime extra-virgin California olive oil. For guests, why not drizzle a bit of Japanese wasabi olive oil over the appetizers to give them an extra kick ($28 for 250 ml)? Or use an eye dropper of white truffle oil from Italy in the omelette pan (at $13.50 for .55 ml, you can’t afford to waste it). Both are available from Culinary Needs, as are hazelnut and walnut olive oil from France ($12 for 16.9 ounces). At Sotto Voce, each small batch of premium oil is infused, bottled and labeled by hand. Reading about the Olio Pomodoro, a garlic-flavored oil infused with sun-dried tomatoes, Greek oregano, and black and white peppercorns will get you salivating. The Olio Santo is a garlic oil blended with rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, peppercorns and a mild chili pepper. And the Olio Angelico is garlic oil with baby dill, wild ginger, pink peppercorns and fennel. All are $12.75 for 12.75 ounces. And if you really want to splurge, try the Urbani truffle oil gift set, with one bottle of white truffle oil and one of black truffle oil ($76; pictured). Earthy Delights has mushroom-flavored oils such as Da Rosario’s organic porcini oil ($25 for eight ounces) and a “finishing” oil, Moreloilla ($26 for 115 ml), flavored with real morel mushrooms, to be sprinkled right before serving foods.

Please Share and Enjoy:

  • Mixx
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • del.icio.us
  • E-mail this story to a friend!

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment


• Vlog with Jessica Roska
Watch our summer shopping spree

• View Recent Product Recalls
View a list from the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Advertisement
>> Many Happy Returns
Some advice on reading the fine print before trying to return gifts that were bought online

>> HDTV Headaches?
It's big. It's beautiful. Everyone is excited about that great new flat-panel TV. But before you start plugging in cords and getting confused, here are 5 important things to know

>> Shoppers' Resources
We've got loads of helpful, relevant links to make you a better informed online shopper

>> These are a Few of Our Favorite Things
We've broken the Shopperati Blog into categories to make it easier to find just the product that you need - from clothing to toys, tools to sporting goods

>> 10 Classic Fashion Gifts
blue-nile-diamond-earrings-white-box.jpgNot sure what to get that beautiful woman on your gift list? You can never go wrong with one (or more) of our classic fashion recommendations - from diamonds to pearls, Hermes to Chanel

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Search Shopperati



About Shopperati   Contact Shopperati   All contents copyright © 2008 Noofangle Media

Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved.