At my local market today they were selling fresh olives. These were green and looked like extra large peas.
I love olives but didn't buy any as I don't know what to do with them once i got them home. I usually buy olives in jars. Have I got to pickle these??
//I love olives but didn't buy any as I don't know what to do with them once i got them home.//
Tip them straight into the compost (or kitchen waste if you don't have a compost heap). Olives are only suitable for making olive oil. They are not fit for humans to eat otherwise. They taste nothing like they look and are wholly vile.
Absolutely love them here. We have them on salads, on pizzas, in pasta dishes as well as on their own; green, black, plain, flavoured, stuffed, - bring them on.
When our daughter was a youngster we would go to the local Deli every Saturday morning and she would have a tub of olives to herself which were demolished before we got home - she certainly loved up to her name, Olivia. :))