This past Saturday, me and some of my girls took a trip to the Texas Hill Country to visit an Olive Oil Company. We were going to take a tour of the facility, learn a lot about olive oil and then enjoy lunch in their fabulous little bistro! What a fantastic day we had!
Clearly, I need to keep my sunglasses handy or learn how not to take a picture staring into the sun. I have a big time squinting problem - but don't Sheri, Sandy and Lori look precious? Why wasn't the sun in their eyes? I do not know.
We arrived in plenty of time before our tour and got to browse through the very cute store!
They had so many really unique items and great gifts!
I LOVED this pitcher!
Is that great, or what?
They also had tons of balsamic vinegars you could taste! I love vinegar and so I parked myself in front of this station and tasted to my hearts content! My top favorites - Red Apple, Blackberry, Raspberry and Wild Cherry! At one point, I told Sheri I was going to be licking the little tiny sample cups to get all the vinegar out that the bread didn't soak up! I did, too! I'm super classy!
There was also time for a beautiful cup of coffee. Why is coffee so good out of a little white cup? Something about it just makes it better! This was a VERY good cup coffee!
The bistro was prepping pizza crusts in the back kitchen where we waited for the tour to start.
The smell was amazing! Lunch was going to be good!
We were so lucky to have our tour done by the owner. He was fascinating and taught us so much about olive oil! We had a little history lesson and back ground information on the back patio and then got to walk out to the olive trees! John said they had been really worried about how the trees would respond to the super cold weather we had in January, and that very Saturday morning he saw the first signs of new blooms! He was relieved and so happy that they were going to get some olives this year! After that we got to go see the equipment that mills the olives into oil and learned so much about that process! What a labor of love it is!
Harry called about five minutes after I walked in the house from our adventure and I blabbed on and on for about ten minutes about olive oil and all I learned. He was cracking up when I finally took a breath and said "Wow, that was some intense information about a topic I never thought I cared about or ever wanted to know." But it was really quite interesting, so I just had to share!
After the tour we grabbed a seat in the bistro and ordered lunch!
Doesn't that look fantastic? It was!
We did more shopping and stocked up on really good olive oil and balsamic vinegar!
I have been cooking hard with it since yesterday! I also picked up this darling car freshener with a stellar message!
It was a great way to spend an afternoon and I would definitely go back!
I'm not a big fan of olive oil but the tour of the olive oil facility seems like it would be interesting. So glad you are getting out and about with your great friends. Keep sending these great blogs.
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