11.   Black olives, mayonnaise, and chopped roasted red peppers make a lovely chicken salad.

12.   A KRAP pizza, for example, is topped with bacon, black olives, anchovies and pepperoni.

13.   Add sauteed mushrooms or ground beef to part of it and black olives, capers, anchovies, and grated Parmesan or Manchego cheese to another.

14.   Add black olives if desired.

15.   Add some hard-boiled eggs, cut watermelon and other fresh fruit, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, oil-cured black olives and slivers of feta cheese.

16.   Add the rice, green onions and black olives and toss to combine.

17.   Cookbook author Paula Wolfert says that when juicy black olives are added, the result is too heavy.

18.   Combine calamari with lettuce, sliced black olives, mushrooms, garlic and mozzarella cheese.

19.   Follow with a layer of mozzarella, a scattering of pepperoni, then the black olives.

20.   Five different pasta offerings include angel hair pasta with jumbo Gulf shrimp, black olives and garlic and tomato sauce.