Marion Lougheed discusses storytelling and martini "building" and explains how the telling detail in your story is the olive ...

Dirty martinis include a mere half-ounce of olive brine -- yes, a dirty martini contains the juice from a jar of green olives. To make a martini extra dirty, or filthy as it's sometimes called ...

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.

Trudy's Mexican Martini is easily made at home and the ... I took small pimento-stuffed green olives and placed them in the center of a small hexagonal ice tray. I covered the olives with the ...

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 ...

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 ...