Fortunately for me, Ree, The Pioneer Woman gave me a signed copy of her cookbook when I was blessed to get to visit the ranch last June. One of the biggest highlights of my bloggy journey, for sure! Love ya Ree! I’ve had fun going through this cookbook and choosing a few to try. I had already made a several of her recipes from reading the blog, but there are even more in the book that grabbed my appetite.
Like this olive loaf.
Something about smearing mayo, butter, cheese and chopped olives on a crusty loaf of bread and baking it till it’s golden brown just sounded good to me.  I had to try it.
So, I picked up a nice crusty 5 grain loaf at Publix, along with some real briny olives from the Whole Foods olive bar and I was in business. I made it for lunch the day before Christmas. After all the baking and sweets eating we had been doing, something salty like this was just the thing.
Oh my gosh, was it delish! Even though Ree says her cowboy won’t touch this one, my hubs loved it. It’s definitely a keeper and I’ll make it again. He’s not a mayo fan and when I asked him if he could tell what was in here, he finally guessed mayo, but it didn’t even matter a bit. He scarfed it down.
Since Ree has posted this on her blog (she’s nice like that), I’ll send you right over there for a printer-friendly copy of the Olive Cheese Bread. And she’s got it photographed in step by step living color too.
So good! Get some good olives and it will make a difference. Try it if you like all these ingredients and I bet you will love it too!
Linking to Jen’s Tasty Tuesday recipes.
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This looks perfect for a New Years party I’m hosting! Thanks much Rhoda!
Oh, my! That does look wonderful – and it includes all my fav food groups – butter, mayo, cheese, bread, olives. And all of it so healthy! 🙂
I would not be able to stay out of that until it was gone.
I think PW and Paula Deen are trying to kill us.
We had this for Christmas Eve!!! It was awesome!!!
This is perfect timing! I have a nice crusty chibata bread and I was wondering what I could make with it.
Hope you had a beautiful and blessed Christmas Rhoda!
We too had it on xmas ee but I didn’t put the butter in and it was still very tasty. My dtr even spread some on crackers
That looks absolutely delicious!
I love olives! Love it! But unfortunately I’m the only person that likes it at our home. Maybe I will do half of this recipe just as a treat for myself! Yum! 🙂
Rhoda, if you have a minute, please go see JENNIFER LOPEZ’s HOUSE at my blog today! It’s newly renovated and it’s fabulous! I hope you like it!
xo
Luciane at HomeBunch.com
How funny is this….I have her cookbook sitting next to me! I just got it for Christmas and am going through it flagging pages:)
How exciting for you to get to visit the ranch, that’s awesome!!
Happy New Year!
Daph
This sounds so delicious!! And coming from The Pioneer Woman, yes!! I made her lasagna for Christmas (replaced meat with egg plant) from her blog, and it was the best lasagna we’ve ever had! I’m going to be back there for sure. Congrats on that signed cook book!!!
Thanks so much Rhoda for the mention, you rock!
The bread looks downright sinful, Rhoda! Thanks so much for posting it. Yummy for the tummy! 😀
xoxoxo
Ricki Jill
Ooo… that’s looks so awesome. Now I just need someone else who loves olives as much as I do to share it with!
Hi Rhoda,
That sounds like an amazing recipe, I may use it for New Years Eve, it would be so perfect for a late night snack!
I have enjoyed your blog so very much this last year, please keep up the great work! All the best in 2011, my friend!
Love and hugs, Cindy
Yum! I love olives!!!
I want you to know that I just got home from the store–bought the french bread and the black olives….I’ve got the rest of the ingredients right here. I’ll be bringing this to a party tonight, and if it goes over well, I’ll bringing it to a New Year’s Eve party too! Thanks for the heads up, Rhoda-Rhama!
so my husband must be like Pdubs hubby, because when he saw this pic of the bread he said,” ew gross, what is that?”. L to the O to the L. i, on the other hand, would gobble that up.
Even though I don’t like olives, that looks really good! I love me some PDub! Her apple dumpling recipe is my favorite dessert. Ever. : )
Thanks for reminding me about this recipe. I have Ree’s cookbook, too, and I’m so star-struck over her. She is just so amazing. How awesome that you got invited to the ranch. Wow! Do you have her novel on order? Can’t wait for that one. By-the-way, when is your Projects of 2010 Party happening? I’ve read about it on other blogs, but can’t find it on yours. Am I looking right at it?
CAS
That looks so good! And you are right – after all the sweets for Christmas it is so nice to throw a savory in there! And you can’t go wrong with Ree’s recipes – how exciting that must have been to go to her ranch!
Lucky for you to have met Ree at her ranch. I watched her Throwdown with Bobby Flay. Can’t wait to try this!
Even though I don’t like olives, that looks really good! I love me some PDub! Her apple dumpling recipe is my favorite dessert. Ever. : )