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TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – 2015/12/11: Beautiful large green olives stuffed with garlic cloves served in a clay plate. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Hold The Martini
“Shaken or stirred” is not the real question when it comes to martinis. You do need to worry about what kind of gin to use (try to avoid the bottom-shelf stuff that smells like pine cleaner) and what you mix with it. Traditional recipes call for vermouth, but no one really wants that. The most important ingredient is the olives.
Have you ever wished they’d just fill the glass with olives and pour the gin around them? I swear the olives are more addictive than the alcohol they’re floating in.
So if you like your martinis extra extra dirty, like we do in my house, here’s the recipe for you: Gin-marinated Olives from 101 Cookbooks. The ingredients include:
- green olives
- serrano peppers
- garlic
- lemon peel
- extra virgin olive oil
- gin
- dried oregano
- dried thyme
- cubed feta cheese
But you don’t have to stop with green olives. Mix it up with different kinds of olives. Soak some cocktail onions or celery in the gin mix. Or try pickles! I think half sours would soak up the most gin flavor.
Serve the gin-soaked olives (and onions, celery and pickles) along with the boozy bloody mary tomatoes and spiked watermelon, and you will basically be getting drunk off salad. How awesome is that?