Stuff your own olives with top-quality blue cheese, for the zippiest martinis in town.

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August 2008

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Page 6: Vodka Martini With Buttermilk Blue Cheese-Stuffed Olives

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• Page 6: Vodka Martini With Buttermilk Blue Cheese-Stuffed Olives

Vodka Martini With Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives

This terrific martini is easy to prepare, and is guaranteed to impress guests. If you’ve ever purchased blue cheese-stuffed olives only to be disappointed in the quality, here’s your opportunity to make them with the finest blue cheese. The recipe is from Chef/Owner David Burke, of Fromagerie restaurant in Rumson, New Jersey.

About Buttermilk Blue

Roth Käse’s Buttermilk Blue is a bold blue cheese with a full-on blue aroma (from the mold), with a creamy texture and a tangy, but not biting, buttermilk flavor. It’s called Buttermilk Blue because it actually delivers a flavor of buttermilk. Serve any leftover cheese crumbled over a green salad or sliced tomatoes and red onions, a burger, steak or sandwich.

Serves 1.

Ingredients

Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives 1 jar Spanish olives with pimento 4 ounces Buttermilk Blue or other top-quality blue cheese Rosemary sprigs, approximately two inches long Vodka Martini 3 ounces vodka 1 tablespoon vermouth Ice cubes

Roth Käse Buttermilk Blue Cheese is available at iGourmet.com.

Preparation

Buttermilk Blue Stuffed Olives

1. Remove the pimento from the olive, and stuff the olive with the blue cheese.
2. Place the rosemary sprig in the cheese, as a skewer for the olives.
3. Repeat to prepare as many olives as necessary.

Vodka Martini

1. Pour the vermouth into a chilled martini glass and swirl around glass. Discard the vermouth.
2. Combine the vodka and ice in a shaker and shake vigorously. Strain the vodka into a martini glass, and garnish with several blue cheese-stuffed olives.
3. Serve immediately.

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