Cranberry Olives

I had left over olive brine and wanted to put it to good use.  That is how many evolutions take place in our kitchen.  I thought about curing grapes in the brine, of course I did not have any grapes.  However, I did have some nice cranberries.  Beautiful.  I heated the brine up and poured it over the cranberries.  I let the mixture cool and low and behold I had cranberry olives.  The flavor keeps getting better.  I was so pleased with my findings I had to share these thoughts.  I picked up the phone and dialed Wylie at WD-50 .  He would get cranberry olives.  In fact, he got more than cranberry olives.  He mentioned he used to make a caramel with the olive brine.  Brilliant!!  I had to make olive brine caramel.  The great point from the converstaion is it opened the dam of thoughts to what one could use olive brine for.  Sure, I could make a huge amount of dirty martini's, but that would just lead to a headache.  Rather, I have begun brining fish and meat in the olive brine, as well as making grape olives, and making apple-olive brine puree.  Further thoughts keep emerging and evolving.  It began with an idea, I shared it and now the river of ideas flows freely.  It is an important reminder about the evolution of ideas and the sparks which cause inspiration.