Olive

Serve with: Orzo tossed with fresh oregano and green onions, and buttered carrots.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

We've given a twist to the traditional Greek salad, then tucked it into toasted pita bread to come up with a tasty lunchtime treat.

This salsa is chock-full of sun-loving ingredients like tomatoes, olives and capers. It's a splendid accompaniment to grilled halibut steaks, pork chops, sliced eggplant or sourdough bread.

These olives can be served warm or at room temperature, but the flavor is brighter and the texture more tender when they're warm.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

To make this dish especially fast and easy to prepare, you can use store-bought roasted peppers.

Poisson à la Niçoise Typical Niçois ingredients—including tomatoes, fennel, anchovies and olives—flavor this dish from Auberge des Arts. At the restaurant it's made with red mullet (rouget), which is a local fish. We've substituted red snapper.

This salad — named after the famous New Orleans sandwich — would also be good on oversize rolls. Suitable sides include onion rings and carrot sticks with blue cheese dip. End with praline ice cream cones.

This innovative take on the classic features an intensely flavored olive and raisin tapenade that is also great teamed with breadsticks or spread onto bruschetta. Crispy egg-bread croutons are also a nice addition