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We want to keep our customers in the know with all things olives – recipes, wine pairings, Q&As and much much more.

Goat’s Cheese Tart with Caramelised Onion Chutney A quick and easy lunch or light dinner, I fancied making something abit different for my lunch so had a rummage in my

Devon Feta Fusion Olives Our newest flavour to our olive range brings creamy stuffed feta olives, local goats feta style cheese and loads of oregano. The taste of summer right

North African traybake with green olives This delicious chicken traybake combines succulent chicken thighs or drumsticks (or both!) with garlic, lemon and green olives. Traybakes are so easy and versatile,

Meet the Supplier – Stergioudis Olives In September last year we visited our new olive supplier in Halkidiki, Greece. Stergioudis Olives is owned and run by Brothers Ioannis and Dimitris

The best olives online! West Country Olives was born 4 years ago around the time of covid which we found was actually a great time to launch a postal product.

Winter Mediterranean Salad with warm roasted Squash This is a delicious winter salad which is best served with the squash still warm from the oven. It has lots of different

Creamy Garlic & Chilli Dip A really easy and versatile recipe, perfect to accompany many dishes or just to simply dip snacks in. You can use your favourite Olives for

Summer BBQ Salad Recipe This summery salad was made by our friends at ‘No Smoke without Fire’, they were just outside the Food Marquee at Devon County Show. They were

Mediterranean Chicken Recipe Sue has been at it again, cooking up a storm this time using our Green pitted olives. She rustled up this delicious Mediterranean Chicken dish, using chicken

Veggie Stuffed pizza pepper’s – GUEST RECIPE by Sue Stoneman The second recipe that the lovely Sue from Dart’s Farm has done for us. She used our Lemon & Tarragon

FOCACCIA BREAD – GUEST RECIPE By Sue Stoneman Introducing the lovely Award winning Sue Stoneman – South West Home Cook of the year (2016 & 2017) food writer and blogger,

Love pancakes but prefer a savoury filling? This easy savoury pancake recipe is super quick and easy and is absolutely delicious! If you aren’t a fan of Goats Cheese, swap

We are three years since West Country Olives was born, a lot has happened over this past year. This year has seen a new flavour, more product awards, agricultural shows,

There are so many reasons to snack on olives, not only because they are delicious but they are really good for you too! We have highlighted 5 key health benefits

Greendale Farm shop are one of our closest customers, based around 4 miles from us! They do a lovely series called ’30 under 30 miles’ which we were featured in

We are so lucky in the South West that we are surrounded by so many fantastic food and drink producers, I have met many at events I’ve attended across Devon

New Flavour Launch – South Devon Basil Pesto Our latest flavour which we have been working on for quite a while now has finally been released – hooray! We actually

We have been reflecting on the awards we won last year, as well as Taste of the West awards, we entered the Food Drink Devon awards.It was the first year

A easy savoury tart recipe, perfect to batch cook and have for easy lunches. This recipe makes 6 Individual small tarts. Ingredients 225g Plain Flour 1 Tsp Salt 1 Egg

Festive Blend We have been wanting to try our hand at some jarred olives for a while and we thought well there isn’t a better time than at Christmas! We

A simple couscous salad, also very adaptable to ingredients that are in your fridge. A throwback to the summer months and lots of BBQs in the sun! Ingredients 10- 12

Focaccia Bread – Edible Garden! This beautiful edible garden focaccia bread was created using our Moroccan Black Olives and a focaccia bread mix which you can purchase from Sainsburys or

Currently in our flavour range we have got 3 types of Green olives with garlic, of which 2 are now award winners!Hand-Stuffed Garlic and Rosemary & Garlic. Hand-Stuffed Garlic has actually

What are Nocellara olives? Nocellara Olives, also known as Castelvetrano olives are small, crunchy olives with a smooth buttery flavour and vibrant green in colour.  These little green olives are

So, Where Can I Buy Olives? Where can I buy olives? That’s A question a lot of people may ask themselves but in reality, the most important question they should

Always a great salad for the warmer summer days, which we have definitely been experiencing this past week! We made this simple Greek Salad to accompany a BBQ we had

Taste of the West – Online retailer Awards This was our first year entering into the Taste of the West awards in the hope for our olives to become Award

I’ve had this recipe on my agenda to make for a while now, I have adapted some recipes I found online.  Our recipe for Deep fried stuffed olives is easy,

Lets talk Packaging For us we didn’t get it right first time but with some tweaks we are finally there now.  We have always had a vision of what we

Ooni Pizza Oven We have had fun experimenting with different pizza toppings, this is one of the easiest and tastiest pizza recipes we have made so far so we thought

In the first of our recipe blogs we have adapted this delicious Delia Smith recipe to make it a Vegan casserole instead. The recipe is just the same but simply

Firstly we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has tried our olives, buys our olives and sells our olives. We are so proud of how far

Introduction to the Best Types Of Olives: There are many different types of olives and each different class of olive often comes in different sizes colours and variations, this means

What’s Included In This Blog? The health benefits of olives are plentiful and this is one of the main contributors to their global adoption. Olives have been grown across the

Find out who Bell & Loxton are and why we love using their oils in every one of our different types of olives.
Find out who Bell & Loxton are and why we love using their oils in every one of our different types of olives.
We did a Christmas Market and it was great! Find out how we got on.
We did a Christmas Market and it was great! Find out how we got on.
For this week’s blog I thought I’d share with you some of the digital tools in my toolbox in order to build our website and run our online presence.
For this week’s blog I thought I’d share with you some of the digital tools in my toolbox in order to build our website and run our online presence.
Everyone gets things wrong, we just happened to get it wrong right at the start. Find out what we failed at when setting things up.
Everyone gets things wrong, we just happened to get it wrong right at the start. Find out what we failed at when setting things up.
We here at West Country Olives are now engaged in a passionate pursuit to produce the perfect olive and we will not relent until that goal is achieved. If you love olives, this is where you need to be.
We here at West Country Olives are now engaged in a passionate pursuit to produce the perfect olive and we will not relent until that goal is achieved. If you