Entries by Fiona

Greek Lemon Soup with Spicy Olive Oil Drizzle

Avgolemono is a comforting Greek chicken, lemon, egg, and rice soup.  This recipe starts with a classic interpretation of avgolemono and added a spicy olive oil to give it a savoury kick. Ingredients: •8 cups good quality chicken stock or broth •1 cup short grain starchy rice •2 large shallots, or 1 medium onion diced […]

Curried Cauliflower Apple Soup

This recipe is inspired by Mulligatawny soup, but uses cauliflower as the main vegetable. Making the most of the fall harvest, this recipe is an interesting way to make use of the abundance seasonal apples that occur every autumn in Canada. Needed for this Recipe: •Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Harissa Olive Oil •Sunshine Coast Olive […]

Italian Style Blood Orange Cookies

This recipe is courtesy Chef Rachel, who finds wonderfully creative uses for all our olive oils. Ingredients • 3 cups unbleached organic flour • 2 cups granulated cane sugar • 1 teaspoon salt • 2 teaspoons baking powder • 2 finely grated orange peel • 1 cup Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Blood Orange Olive […]

Oven Baked Spicy Harissa Olive Oil Kale Chips

Fall is the perfect time to harvest kale for kale chips.  There are so many wonderful variations: Persian Lime Olive Oil, Chipotle Olive Oil, or this delicious Harissa Olive Oil version. Ingredients: • 4 cups kale leaves, washed, dried, and cut into ½” pieces, with tough stems removed • 2 tablespoons Sunshine Coast Olive Oil […]

Blood Orange Granola with Coconut, Cherries and Cashews

This recipe is courtesy of Chef Rachel, who specializes in original recipes using the olive oils and vinegars that we sell at Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Needed for this recipe: • Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Blood Orange Olive Oil *optional: Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Tahitian Vanilla Dark Balsamic Ingredients: • 6 cups […]

Persian Lime Popcorn

We love making popcorn at the store to hand out as samples.  If you like spice, see variation below. Needed for this recipe: • Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Persian Lime Olive Oil •Tri-coloured popcorn *Lime Sea Salt *optional: Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Cayenne Chili Olive Oil Ingredients: • 1/3 cup organic popcorn kernels […]

Pomegranate Gin Gimlet

Pomegranate balsamic not only adds a delicious sweetness but a summery rosé blush to this classic cocktail. Needed for this recipe: • Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Aged Pomegranate Dark Balsamic* *also delicious with Sunshine Coast Olive Oil Co. Grapefruit, Sicilian Lemon or Peach White Balsamics, or Blueberry, Blackberry Ginger or Raspberry Dark Balsamics.   […]