Olive Cheese Balls

 

I first saw this recipe in The Essential New York Times Cookbook months and months ago and I was intrigued on several counts. First, because it combines two of my favourite things – cheese and olives – in a way I hadn’t heard of before. Second, and I don’t know why, but it conjured up within my imagination a setting of pure 1970s kitsch: key parties, martinis, lurid polyester prints and fiddly finger food.

I won’t post the recipe here because I’m not 100% happy with it. This is due to my dud math when it came to converting the American measurements to Australian ones. I was in a rush and so the dough came out a little less pliable than I think it ought to have been.

The hint of paprika in it does give it some kick and they were quite moreish, I must say. Keira certainty thought so.

Curious? I’ve found a similar recipe here if you’d like to have a look.

 

1 New Recipe A Week

This is week twenty-eight of the 1 recipe a week for a year ‘living list’ challenge. (28/52).

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity