Earlier this month, I asked you to submit your very best olive oil recipe to February’s Clean Your Plate Challenge. And we had some beautiful entries – each recipe offered something unique, so choosing finalists for the challenge proved difficult, but we settled on four finalists: Olive Oil Gelato, Olive Oil Ice Cream, One Quarter Dipping Sauce and Dark-chocolate Covered Olive Oil and Apricot Truffles.
Now it’s time for you to vote on your favorite! Choose your favorite recipe that best, or most uniquely, showcases the beauty of unrefined extra virgin olive oil. The winner, based on reader choice, will receive 1 gallon of Chaffin Family Orchards Late Harvest Extra Virgin Mission Olive Oil - a spectacular olive oil with unparalleled nuances of flavor. Incidentally, Chaffin Family Orchard’s olive oil is on sale at a very good price:
Vote for Your Favorite Olive Oil Recipe
It was tough for Chris of Chaffin Family Orchards and me to sift through so many wonderful entries for this month’s challenge, but we settled on these four and now it’s your turn to pick your favorite olive oil recipe among these four finalists.
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Other Spectacular Entries
Please remember to check out the other entries for this month’s challenge. There were some beautiful entries:
| 1. | Tomato Pesto Pie | 2. | One Quarter Dipping Sauce |
| 3. | Roasted Tomato & Goat-Cheese Spelt Bruschetta | 4. | Greek Dressing |
| 5. | Marinated tomato salad | 6. | Fresh Tomato Salad |
| 7. | Freh Herb Dip | 8. | Quinoa Tabouli |
| 9. | Vinaigrette | 10. | Olive Oil Ice Cream |
| 11. | Meyer Lemon Salmon | 12. | Greek Salad California Style |
| 13. | Olive Oil Gelato | 14. | Fettucine with Spicy Almond Butter Sauce |
| 15. | Chocolate-covered Olive Oil and Apricot Truffles | 16. | Basil & Garlic Scape Pesto |
| 17. | Old World Hummus | 18. | Simple Sauteed Asparagus & Red Potatoes |
| 19. | Eggless Caesar Salad |
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Wow, what a fantastic and unique bunch of recipes- I can see how hard it must have been to narrow the field. Great job, everyone!
While I’ll be coming back to try the rest, the Olive Oil Gelato is the one that’s singing to me now..
Here are the pictures of my TRUFFLES!!! Enjoy – they are luscious and the fruitiness melts in your mouth with the chocolate – YUM! They taste awesome with a big glass of raw milk, too
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=47391&id=1074827749&l=3d5b2dfce6
Very creative entries. I have aways had a thing for dipping olive oil. I hope it wins!
What fabulous entries! Everything is best when swimming in olive oil!
I’m not sure if it’s just here or not, but it appears that the option to vote has gone away?
Need help choosing the best olive oil? Here is some good advice from two pros, one a home chef and cookbook author, the other an olive oil producer.
http://hartkeisonline.com/2010/02/25/how-to-choose-a-healthy-olive-oil/
I tired voting for the dipping sauce recipe and found a notice/statement re: unable to read my vote.
Loved this recipe. So simple, yet tasty.
Kimberly -
That’s a great post on olive oil! I’m glad you mentioned it on the olive oil vote. Cool!
- Jenny
I wish I’d seen this poll before – I’ve had olive oil ice cream in one of my favourite restaurants in London and it was one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever eaten – umami!!