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DIY: Homemade Mustard And Marinated Olives

These two recipes would make excellent gifts for the foodie on your holiday gift list.

Make Your Own Mustard

Homemade Mustard

Photo: Chiot's Run (Flickr)

Put your personal touch on this recipe by adding herbs and spices of your choice.

Mustard

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup yellow mustard seeds
  • 1/4 cup black mustard seeds
  • 1 cup cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Cooking Directions

  1. Soak mustard seeds in the vinegar for one day. Crush seeds coarsely with mortar and pestle. Then transfer to a ceramic or glass bowl.
  2. Add honey slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon.
  3. Boil water and add to seed mixture. While hot, put water and seed mixture in sterilized jars.
  4. Let stand at room temperature for 2 weeks. It will keep in the refrigerator for 2 months.

Make Your Own Marinated Olives

jars of olives

Photo: Dan Shouse (Flickr)

Decorate the jars and they would make an excellent gift for the foodie on your holiday gift list.

Marinated Olives

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound whole green or black olives
  • 3 whole cloves garlic
  • zest of one lemon
  • 1 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Cooking Directions

  1. Add all ingredients in large bowl and combine well.
  2. Pour mixture into a sterilized pint jar. Seal and decorate.

Clara Moore

Clara Moore is Head Chef and General Manager of Local Harvest Cafe in St. Louis, where they take eating seasonally and locally very literally. Born and raised in Missouri, she began cooking at age 17 and attended culinary school at Baltimore International College. She is still waiting for that Missouri olive oil.

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