Comments on: The olive harvest season in Istria has begun

By: The unbearable seduceness of the young olive oil

The unbearable seduceness of the young olive oil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:28:58 +0000

[...] from “Buža” olives, an olive cultivar indigenous to Istria. The second oil was produced by my family – it is four weeks old and is made entirely from “Leccino” olives, a Tuscan [...]

By: Sunday dinner – Ossobucco in 30 minutes

Sunday dinner – Ossobucco in 30 minutes — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:23:22 +0000

[...] it. To contrast the sweet and tender flavor of cream, I poured over the spinach one tablespoon of my fresh olive oil (3 weeks old) which is right now peppery and [...]

By: Clem

Clem — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:42:26 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Gogo

Gogo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:49:19 +0000

This is exactly what I found – thick vrhnje but not the sour one, almost the real french one. Check “Vesna sirevi” stand on Pula’s market, just across the fish market.

By: Clem

Clem — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:41 +0000

You know that I ate something very similar to crème fraîche in Zagreb !!!! in one of those yuppy coffee places called Daily fresh, where we had a “fajita” served with cream that was really thick but not firm, with almost no sour taste (though it was written kiselo vhrnje on it). Now I will go look for it and make a quiche aux poireaux !

By: Gogo

Gogo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:49:49 +0000

Massive respect to you Clem for the motivation you give me to write the posts. I think I should start writing in French so that you invite your friends to leave me some comments. I realized that our common friends are constantly reading manjada, but are too shy to leave ate least WOW! yummy
Do you know that I found on market in Pula something very similar to double créme. Like vrhnje in Zagreb, but thicker. Great for your quiche aux poireaux.

By: Clem

Clem — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:24:45 +0000

Strong vinegar and raspberry syrup, how could the flies resist such a cocktail! It think it’s great you can protect your olives without chemicals.
And massive respect to your grandma!

By: Gogo

Gogo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:39:08 +0000

Yes, she is still active although she had two femore fractures in the last ten years. We tried to convince her to quit working and that we will do everything, but she is tough and can not stay seated the whole day.
The bio treatment is a combination of commercial traps for olive flyes (called Ecotrap) and homemade traps made of plastic bottles filled with strong vinegar and raspberry syrup.

By: Clem

Clem — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:15:57 +0000

Yeah new olive oil! But does your grandmother still really work in the field? That’s pretty amazing! I would be interested in learning more about the biological treatment you gave the trees against the fly.
By the way the new blog looks GREAT!