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Well after the minor panic attack with the loss of my fabulous recipe for curing raw olives I can finally heave a sigh of relief till next year.  You probably think I’m a tad over-excitable but the thing is I really adore good olives.  It grieves me though, to pay someone else to do all the curing when we’ve got so many fine looking olive trees of our own.

Yesterday afternoon I had a mammoth sterilising and bottling session and now, as you can see this year’s olive production line is over.  These are the lovely looking fruits of my labour.  I’m feeling slightly smug as this year everything in the jar is home produced.

I picked the olives from our trees and grew the chilli’s, peppers and thyme in the catalan garden.  The bay leaves were ‘borrowed’ from a neighbouring plot while the oil came from olives Big D picked at Mrs T’s plot.  Fab, totally organic preserved olives.  Well organic unless you count the random spray planes that occasionally fly overhead emitting detergent smelling substances to kill of the olive fly!  I discount this as there isn’t a lot we can do about that and fingers crossed its safe?

So that’s all on the olive front for another year!  Phew!!!

And don’t forget if you’re not lucky enough to own your own trees you can still purchase all natural raw olives to bottle yourself at allthatsolive.com.

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