Dark Chocolate Aged Balsamic + Blood Orange EVOO? WOW!
My favorite product in Bar Harbor – Fiore Olive Oils and Vinegars. It’s a tasting room. It’s culinary inspiration. It’s art. It’s delicious! Every time I go in they have new products to taste. So I spent a short while thinking about how to use the Chocolate Aged Balsamic. And one of the wonderful staff members said that she’d been wanting to try it with the Blood Orange olive oil. And she was spot on, the combination was perfect! So I went home to make a dressing for a Baby Spinach Salad.
I started out wanting to use fresh cherries but my husband had just finished them! So I opted to soak some cranberries in a little of the Balsamic and the Vinegar for a couple hours. I toasted some walnuts, crumbled some goat cheese and tossed them into a bowl of baby spinach. I put the marinated cranberries in the salad, tossed on the oil and vinegar they’d been soaking in and added some coarsely ground fresh black pepper and a new salad was born!
Fiore just opened a store in Rockland that I understand has been doing very well, naturally. For many years I’ve been very particular about my olive oils, and I must admit, I’m completely hooked on Fiore’s and won’t buy any others!
While I was there, I purchased a nice gift box of a four pack variety for an upcoming closing gift – keeping it local!
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This entry was posted on June 8, 2010 by Dana Moos. It was filed under food, foodies, gourmet food, local, Maine, Maine businesses, recipes and was tagged with balsamic vinegars, Fiore Bar Harbor, Maine, olive oils, recipes, salads.
Looks gorgeously delicious! Thank you for sharing 😀
June 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Wow it looks amazing. I know this recipe’s gonna climb up to my favourite list. Thanks for sharing.
June 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM