Hot Cheese Olives! with Romesco
Jess’s July CHOPPED PairingPairs with the 2022 Estate Alera When we built our CHOPPED challenge around olives this July, I knew immediately where I was going: Hot Cheese Olives. I had recently seen this popping up as a 1950s cocktail party recipe and couldn’t resist. The name? Objectively terrible. The
Hot Cheese Olives! with Romesco
Jess’s July CHOPPED PairingPairs with the 2022 Estate Alera When we built our CHOPPED challenge around olives this July, I knew immediately where I was going: Hot Cheese Olives. I had recently seen this popping up as a 1950s cocktail party recipe and couldn’t resist. The name? Objectively terrible. The
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