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Recipe Suggestions from a Calolea user and fan!

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My pals in Atlanta are in love with their holiday Calolea. SF pals love the Meyer Lemon oil and are experimenting with their new egg BBQ and your oils. I’m sending them your Valentine’s special email.
Garlic oil drizzled on toast (before or after toasting) for instant garlic toast
Lemon oil on pasta
Garlic oil on rice
Lemon oil on roasted veggie salad (roast veggies in standard olive oil, dress with lemon oil)
Either Lemon or Garlic oil or both on roasted chicken (under skin works), or fish or whatever
Homemade French bread — it calls for a TBS of olive oil. Tried 1 TBS garlic oil but should use more to get a real flavor hit.
Salads, of course — greens, pasta, potato…
Wilted greens (spinach or chard quickly wilted with garlic in flavored olive oil)
On baked or roasted potatoes instead of butter
Like you might use Truffle Oil — drizzled on veggies, a dash in soup, etc

Los Angeles Food Blogger Dorothy Reinhold of www.shockinglydelicious adds Calolea to her “November Favorite Things”.

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Calolea Garlic Olive Oil in a stir-fry5. Calolea Olive Oils and Vinegars: With best-in-show and best-in-class awards over the years for several of their California extra virgin olive oils, Calolea is a top-flight producer to follow. In fact, their Mission Blend was a 2011 Gold Medal Winner in the California Olive Oil Council competition. In addition to regular oils, they offer a crisp and lively Meyer Lemon Olive Oil, an Orange Olive Oil that is a blend of mandarin, blood and navel oranges, and a Garlic Olive Oil with a heady amount of the stinking rose. In fact, I used their garlic oil in a stir-fry of mixed veggies (asparagus, mushrooms, red onion, cabbage), and it elevated this simple dish to a higher plane. For the same dinner, I drizzled some of their Orange Olive Oil over my salad of mixed greens, tossed in a tablespoon of their 12-year-old White Balsamic Vinegar imported from Italy, and I effortlessly took my mundane lettuce to leafy green nirvana.  I can’t wait to try all their amazing flavors in some of my favorite recipes. Speaking of which, I wonder how their oil would do over vanilla ice cream? (They are offering  a 10% discount if you use the code MK10off on the website.)

Happy Customers from Canada share their Calolea story.

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Thank you Monica. I can’t wait to share your products–David and I enjoyed them so much.  We were in the Castro district of San Francisco at Easter and fell upon the market there.  I must admit that day was a wee torcherous in that we tasted the combo of lemon oil and white balsamic– I could drink it by the glass!   Right across from your booth was a vendor selling the most beautiful mixed greens with edible flowers.  As we were staying in a hotel and did not have a kitchen, we could not do any food prep.  Being cooks, that was torture. : )  We were surrounded by fabulous ingredients and heavenly bread.

Happy holidays to you all,

Colette

Great Review from Brenda in Newark!

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Comments: I just picked up a bottle of your blood orange olive oil today at the Farmer’s Market in Newark. It was so delicious, so I decided I had to cook with it immediately. I used it to make pizza dough, so it was in the dough and I also brushed it on top of the dough before piling on toppings. It was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Oh my gosh, AMAZING! I can’t wait to experiment more with this delicious olive oil! I hope that you are regulars at the Farmer’s Market because I’ll be sure to buy another bottle… and another… and another! I’m so glad that I found your booth today!

Award Winning Weekend for both Calolea and Pierce Family Farms!!!

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Calolea wins at Paso Robles 8th Annual Olive Oil Festival, “Silver Medal” for their

Mission 2011 amongst 50 California olive grower’s.  Special mention to Pierce Family Farm

for their award winning heirloom tomatoes at “High Hand’s Tomato Gathering”.  Mary

from Pierce Family Farms is also a Senior Sales person for Calolea Olive Oil, Go Mary!!

“South, also won Best in Show as the Best Tasting; a beautiful ‘Rainbow’ grown by Pierce Family Farms won for Best All Other Colors; and a beautiful cluster of a perennial favorite”.

Calolea Olive Oil Introduces many new retailers in Northern California, We Welcome and Thank You for your participation!

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San Francisco Bay Area stores:

Bi-Rite Grocery

Rainbow Cooperative

Real Foods (Polk, Fillmore, Stanyan)

Falletti Foods

24th Street Cheese

Whole Foods- Northern California Stores

Mount Zion Hospital, S.F.

ST. Francis Hospital, S.F.

Marin General Hospital,

Mills-Peninsula Hospital, “The Healing Store”

Feather River Hospital in Paradise

Salinas Valley Hospital Gift Shop

Celebrity Chef  “Tyler Florence” stores in  Mill Valley and Napa.

Roberts Market in Woodside.

The Apple Farm in San Luis Obispo ( The best Roadside farm Store in Central California)

Calolea and Staff Thanks all of it’s retailers and looks forward to continued  prosperous partnersips!

 

Cheers!!

Calolea Olive Oils and Vinegars

Namaste

 

 

 

 

Nugget Markets Introduce Calolea, 2011- Gold Medal winning “Mission” Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Calolea’s Top selling Meyer Lemon

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You can now purchase 5 of Calolea’s Award Winning products at All Nine Nugget Makets. If you’ve never shopped

at a Nugget Market, you’re in for a surprise, they offer Grocery, specialty, health and wellness products at a

very fair price and it doesn’t hurt that their stores are beautiful and elegant. Nugget Markets are

located in the Greater Sacramento Area.  www.nuggetmarket.com

Photos from the California Small Farm Conference.

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Small Farm Conference  John and Sherrie are our In-Laws and they represent Calolea Olive oil

at many Farmer’s markets in the Greater San Jose and San Francisco Bay area.  Here they are pouring olive oil non stop to the many tasters and farmers from all over California.  They do a terrific job for our

family farm business, thanks guys!!!