OLIVE OIL PIE CRUST:

2 cup organic sifted all purpose or pastry flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup Greek Koroneiki extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons very cold half and half

METHOD:

Mix flour and salt together in a bowl with a fork.
Place bowl in freezer for 20 minutes.
Remove bowl from freezer and make a well in the middle of dry mixture.
Add vanilla, olive oil and half and half. Mix well with fork just until ingredients are blended; do not over mix.
Form dough into a ball and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.
Roll dough out onto parchment paper with a rolling pin, place into pie dish and crimp edges.
Brush beaten egg over crust and pierce with fork in 8-10 places.
Bake crust until golden brown, about 25 minutes at 350°. Cool crust before filling.

FILLING: 

Fill with any fruit using the same quantities. SHOWN HERE: 2 1/2 cups sliced strawberries, 1 cup fresh blueberries, 1/2 cup cane sugar, stirred together over medium high heat for 5 minutes until sugar is absorbed.

Refrigerate until fruit sets; cut into 8 equal pieces.  This guilt-free dessert is MUCH lower in calories and sugar content than most desserts--only 1 tsp sugar per serving!

I have created Caliterranean® as a brand name to share healthy, flavorful and satisfying recipes, food products and a mode of living, California style! Ever since I was a little girl growing up in Dayton, Ohio, I wanted to live, work and play in California; in 1996 that dream came true. I moved permanently to northern Santa Barbara county to found Global Gardens®, now southern California’s most-awarded certified organic extra-virgin olive oil, first cold pressing, along with homemade fruit balsamics, organic mustards, proprietary spice blends, snacks and olive oil beauty products. 

P.S. I believe it's an improvement on the Mediterranean lifestyle and eating habits (fresh produce! olive oils!). I have added in those practices that make California unique: meditation, yoga, and aromatherapy. Love, inner peace, and positivity are a driving life force. Recycling. Organic. Loving the Earth.