As the cooling October winds soon begin to blow across Long Island, home cooks become reacquainted once again with their kitchen stoves and roasting pans. Such opportunity offers the perfect excuse to visit a shop that is reminiscent of Tuscany and that can help to infuse a boost of autumn flavor into your braised fennel and roasted Brussels sprouts.
At the Crushed Olive, aisles gleam with rows of mirror-finish casks filled with premium quality oils and vinegars, waiting to be poured from spigots into bottles for you to purchase. From the traditional extra virgin olive oil and 38-year aged balsamic vinegar to some downright exotic specimens, the Crushed Olive offers a vast array of flavor enhancement for all of your epicurean endeavors. The flavored variations are infused solely from the extract of leaves, stems, fruits and cloves of the plant.
Infused oils include such flavors as Tuscan herb, basil, garlic, wild mushroom and sage, blood orange and more. While visiting the shop location in Stony Brook village, I sampled their chocolate brownies that were laced with a kiss of orange flavor. Chocolate and orange always create a blissful culinary marriage, and so the conjurer of these delectable treats opted to use blood orange infused olive oil in lieu of the recipe's prescribed vegetable oil. This was a tasty decision, one that I must make mental note of for my own baking projects.
Other available oils include walnut, sesame, roasted almond, porcini mushroom and white or black truffle.
Imported from Modena, white and dark balsamic vinegars are even more widely varied, with twenty flavor infusions including black cherry, strawberry, orange, chocolate and even espresso. While the Sicilian lemon white balsamic is sublime for roasted spring asparagus and chocolate balsamic is an ideal drizzle for vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries, consider the apple and fig vinegars for autumnal flare.
Not sure where to begin? The Crushed Olive invites sampling on all varieties of their oils and vinegars to help you decide on some favorites, making this a fun and delicious shopping experience. Once you make choose your flavor, the friendly staff fills, corks and seals your selection into 200 ml. or 375 ml. bottles for purchase.
With the health benefits that olive oil has to offer and the range of flavors available in both the oils and vinegars, there is simply no excuse not to find inspiration at the Crushed Olive to unleash your culinary imagination to create some delicious recipes, salad dressings and bread dips.
The Crushed Olive now has three locations in Suffolk County, in Stony Brook Village, Huntington Village and in Sayville. For addresses and directions, shop hours and online browsing, visit www.thecrushedolive.com.
For a delicious fall vegetable recipe utilizing the apple balsamic, see the post for Braised Fennel with Apple Balsamic Vinegar on the ‘What's Cooking?’ page.
At the Crushed Olive, aisles gleam with rows of mirror-finish casks filled with premium quality oils and vinegars, waiting to be poured from spigots into bottles for you to purchase. From the traditional extra virgin olive oil and 38-year aged balsamic vinegar to some downright exotic specimens, the Crushed Olive offers a vast array of flavor enhancement for all of your epicurean endeavors. The flavored variations are infused solely from the extract of leaves, stems, fruits and cloves of the plant.
Infused oils include such flavors as Tuscan herb, basil, garlic, wild mushroom and sage, blood orange and more. While visiting the shop location in Stony Brook village, I sampled their chocolate brownies that were laced with a kiss of orange flavor. Chocolate and orange always create a blissful culinary marriage, and so the conjurer of these delectable treats opted to use blood orange infused olive oil in lieu of the recipe's prescribed vegetable oil. This was a tasty decision, one that I must make mental note of for my own baking projects.
Other available oils include walnut, sesame, roasted almond, porcini mushroom and white or black truffle.
Imported from Modena, white and dark balsamic vinegars are even more widely varied, with twenty flavor infusions including black cherry, strawberry, orange, chocolate and even espresso. While the Sicilian lemon white balsamic is sublime for roasted spring asparagus and chocolate balsamic is an ideal drizzle for vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries, consider the apple and fig vinegars for autumnal flare.
Not sure where to begin? The Crushed Olive invites sampling on all varieties of their oils and vinegars to help you decide on some favorites, making this a fun and delicious shopping experience. Once you make choose your flavor, the friendly staff fills, corks and seals your selection into 200 ml. or 375 ml. bottles for purchase.
With the health benefits that olive oil has to offer and the range of flavors available in both the oils and vinegars, there is simply no excuse not to find inspiration at the Crushed Olive to unleash your culinary imagination to create some delicious recipes, salad dressings and bread dips.
The Crushed Olive now has three locations in Suffolk County, in Stony Brook Village, Huntington Village and in Sayville. For addresses and directions, shop hours and online browsing, visit www.thecrushedolive.com.
For a delicious fall vegetable recipe utilizing the apple balsamic, see the post for Braised Fennel with Apple Balsamic Vinegar on the ‘What's Cooking?’ page.