A taste of Toronto (late summer and autumn)

Q: Queen Olive Cheese Balls

Wooaaaaaaaaah, time sure does fly! In exciting news, Alphabake recently celebrated its one year anniversary (and we still have not gotten through the entire alphabet--oops). The other thing that reflects time's quick passing is that I actually made this recipe and took the photos for this post last Christmas Eve (I think my style has changed a bit since). I realize that making a quiche or something with quinoa would have been a better match for the letter 'Q' but these Queen Olive cheese balls were  made in honour of my sister's dog, Olive. I felt that I needed to make letter 'Q' before I left for Scotland in order to get the puppy photo op.

The recipe comes from Hors D'Oeuvres by Eric Treuille and Vitctoria Blashford-Snell.  The main reason I decided to try this recipe was because it was one of the very few I had that started with 'Q'.  I did not expect them to be particularly tasty but I was pleasantly surprised and everyone at the dinner really liked them. HRH Queen Olive Cheese Ball herself tried to get her paws on a few!