[muir_redwoods]

Olive oil

[muawiyah]

Recently been testing out the olive/canola oil blends. Several of them are great for frying foods breaded with cornmeal ~ more recently I noticed Conquistidor EVOO on sale at the nearby Korean grocery.

This is a Spanish oil, and we haven't had much of that available in the DC market for several years ~ the deal is the olive farmers couldn't get loans for harvest so they just left the olives on the trees pending economic recovery. i think marginal commodity investors are making those loans now and picking this stuff up cheap ~ $4 a liter for EVOO from Spain versus $4 a liter or 55th pressing filtered stuff from italy ~ if that's a clue.

it happens to be great stuff ~ frying, drizzling, sauces, whatever. There's modern technology in the processing of Spanish olives.