Recipes with olive oil — grill

  BBQ with Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Picanha at its Best After a wet spring, summer in the Netherlands is finally in full swing. There's no better time to barbecue again with friends and/or family, where extra virgin olive oil is, of course, a must!  I often get asked how olive oil can be used during a barbecue, so in this blog, I want to give some examples of how you can use extra virgin olive oil, both for cooking and for side dishes. Jersey Picanha In preparation, I visited ONS Biologische Slager for a nice piece of BBQ...

In my youth, during the summer holidays, we would visit my grandparents and family each year in my father's birthplace; Los Prados de Armijo. This village is nestled among olive groves and split by a valley, allowing you to take a (uphill) walk to the other side via a winding road around the valley. Walking past my uncle's goats and chickens, I vividly remember rosemary and asparagus growing wild along the roadside. Because of that memory, it might be one of my favorite vegetables that really suits almost everything. At home in the Netherlands, I unfortunately have to buy asparagus...