WARM SPICED OLIVES Recipe

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp each chopped fresh rosemary and thyme
1/2 tsp hot pepper flakes
Half each sweet red and yellow peppers
2 cups cured green olives
2 cups Kalamata olives
1 tsp grated lemon peel

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat; using side of knife crush garlic. Place in oil, cook, stirring often for 3 minutes. Remove garlic and discard.

Add rosemary, thyme and hot pepper flakes to skillet, cook stirring often, for 2 minutes.

Chop sweet peppers into bite-size pieces; add to skillet tossing to coat with oil. Cook for 5 minutes or just until peppers begin to soften. Add olives; cook, stirring, for 3-4 minutes or until warm. Stir in lemon rind. Place olive mixture on a small platter or bowl accompanied by small forks or toothpicks (a bit messy for fingers) and serve immediately.

I put this all together ahead of time and just reheated to warm through before I served it.