Olive update!

Since it's after the New Year it was time to check on my olives that were brining! I changed the brine and added spices to one of the jars leaving the other alone so I could compare the two. To one of the jars I added a few dried arbol chiles, garlic, and fresh rosemary. I didn't do this in the beginning because  flavors like these would be too pronounced in the finished product given the 6-8 month cure. I could easily see how doing a 10 lb batch of these could be very economical, easy, and make great gifts (I say this, of course, before I even try them)!