Olives + feta cheese = Oleese! This is my second favorite snack (first is yoghurt & chips!) First time I tried this combination was in Sheffield - I found these Apetina packs in Sainburys & Tescos... I've always loved feta cheese...olives not so much, but the photo of the two together (on the packet) got me curious. So I tried it, and fell in love!
One day I added some fresh spinach to the end of the toothpick, and that snack time ended up feeling like lunch time.
I remember the day I made this - sliced olives, with feta cheese in between, on a toothpick. It was a few days after Nawruz (new year/March 21) in Iran. I was tired of all the kebab and sweets from the festivities, so my idea of a healthy break was this!
We brought feta cheese from Iran to Nigeria, and then I bought fresh olives from a Lebanese-owned store in town. No toothpick here - I literally ate these with my fingers.
As for backgrounds (veggies in the first two; garden plants in the second two pictures) - they were necessary, for the oleese to be instagram-pretty! hehe