Adjust brine amount to taste. Cap bottle, shake and store in freezer until well-chilled, at least 4 hours. To serve, set the bottle in an ice bucket and offer cocktail glasses and green olives.

The above, quoted verbatim from my personal notes (minus the asterisks, of course), were my first written thoughts upon trying a proper Olive Oil-Washed Martini. Last year, I was brainstorming ...

Olives, and their brine, are a key component to a classic dirty martini. They are usually green and can be filled with a variety of things like pimento and blue cheese, but it is their brine that ...

They're also the perfect garnish for a dirty martini. Usually, though, you've got a choice between green and black olives at the store, so what makes them different? Even though there are ...

But if you ask for a blue cheese-stuffed olive martini, you might just discover your new favorite drink. Sharp and bitter, yet creamy and zesty, green olives jam-packed with blue cheese add ...

It even (adorably!) has a single green olive gemstone to complement the gold martini glass. This is sort of like the cocktail answer to coffee pods machines, and a great idea for a cocktail night ...

800x better than before.” The above, quoted verbatim from my personal notes (minus the asterisks, of course), were my first written thoughts upon trying a proper Olive Oil-Washed Martini. More from ...

The signature touch comes with Olive Garden's house-made dressing, which combines tangy, garlicky and slightly zesty notes—and those bold flavors are the newest Dirty Martini variation to take social ...