Orange and thyme roasted olives and Antipasto & Tapas Bar

Antipasto Photo by Ben Dearnly

I've seen this recipe in a Daily Telegraph paper (page 17, 20 Nov 2007). As seen on the super food ideas (SFI) TV, according to the spiel.

"Recipe of the Week: SFI food editor Kim Coverdale shares her best entertaining tips and advice (I guess in the SFI TV show or mag?? Check the link.). This week: a wonderful way with olives!

Serves 8 to 10

1 orange, rind thinly peeled with a vegetable peeler, juiced

375g jar Green Valley Greek pitted kalamata olives (or whatever brand kalamata you can find, obviously!), drained

350g jar Green Valley Spanish pitted black olives, drained

450g jar Green Valley premium stuffed queen olives (no nationality! :)...), drained

or 460g Green Valley stuffed olives, drained

10 sprigs fresh thyme

6 garlic cloves, peeled

1/3 cup Moro olive oil

Assorted antipasto ingredients (see you local Italian or any Deli), to serve

1. Preheat oven to 200 deg C. Combine orange rind, orange juice, olives, thyme, garlic and oil in a large ceramic baking dish (How easy is that!). Roast for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.

Remove from oven.

2. Serve olives warm as part of an antipasto platter."

I love antipasto and tapas. Whenever possible friends, families and I go out in a nice Spanish restaurant and just order tapas. Here in Sydney, some of my favorite Spanish restaurants (which I can afford!) are in the "Spanish quarter" in Liverpool St in the city CBD.

One of the first ones I've been to is Miro Tapas Bar. Also I've been to a couple of times to the oldest and original in that street, Capitan Torres.

In Don Quixote Restaurant just off Liverpool St on Kent St, they make a mean lechon de leche or roasted pork yearling... very very tender you can cut the meat with an ordinary plate!

Like Thai retaurants, they are sprouting all over the place now, Newtown, Darlinghurst and Newtown to name a few. There is also this one in Glebe Point Road with a Filipino cook. Maybe its time to get re-acquainted with tapas again! With a nice Spanish sherry or a cool Sangria. Salud! Ola!

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