Elements of an Easy Cheese Board
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Create your own holiday cheese board for effortless entertaining. This is less of a recipe and more of a thought starter and guide to creating a beautiful cheese and appetizer spread.
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Ingredients
THOUGHT STARTERS: CHEESES
- 1 medium Brie cheese double or triple creme, wheel
- 1 medium wedge goat cheese I used wine soaked goat cheese, semi-firm
- 1 medium wedge Stilton cheese or roquefort or other semi-soft blue cheese
- 1 mini Brie cheese truffled, wheel
- 1 log goat cheese soft, rolled in herbs or fruits
- 1 block white cheddar aged
- feta cheese marinated cheeses like
THOUGHT STARTERS: CHARCUTERIE
- 1 log genoa salami thinly sliced, peppered
- prosciutto di Parma only use the real stuff -- and get it sliced very thinly and fresh in the deli. Roll into rosettes for easy access.
- pepperoni thinly sliced
- Sopressata thinly sliced
- ham thinly sliced, country style
- 1 lice pâté duck, chicken liver, foie gras
THOUGHT STARTERS: SAVORIES
- pistachio in their shells
- cashews roasted, salted
- almond dry roasted
- olives preferably a mixture, oil cured
- Tapenade
- artichoke spread
- sun-dried tomatoes oil cured
- artichokes marinated
- cornichons
- giardiniera
THOUGHT STARTERS: SWEETS
- pear thinly sliced, ripe
- dried apricot
- grape seedless, assorted
- apple thinly sliced
- pomegranate seeds
- cherries pickled
- nuts Like pecans, almonds, filberts, walnuts, glazed or sugared
- nuts jarred, with honey
- Fruit jarred, with honey
- fruit chutney
- honey specialty
THOUGHT STARTERS: CRACKERS
- crackers Use 2-3 different types of crackers with herbs, peppered, with fruits, assorted specialty
- grissini or breadsticks
- Pita chips toasted
- Crostini or bruschetta
- mini biscuits
Instructions
- Remove the cheeses from the refrigerator abour 30 to 45 minutes before serving so they can come to temperature.
- Start by assessing your ingredients. Anything runny or marinated should be in its own container on the board.
- Put olives, spreads, honeys in a small bowls and arrange them on the board.
- Add the cheeses. For a wheel of brie, slice one wedge in the wheel, but don't remove it. It just gives guests a guide as to how to proceed.
- For semi soft cheeses like a gorgonzola, place the wedge on the board (but not next to the other cheeses, and crumble a bit off the wedge, so it looks ready to dive into.
- Hard cheeses can be sliced or cubed for quick snatching.
- Fan or step sliced sausages in a wavy line, place blocks of pate near the edge of the board for easy access, and tuck prosciutto rosettes two and three at a time in between any open spaces.
- Fill in the rest of the space with dried fruits, sliced wedges of fresh fruit and bunches of berries, grapes or slices of seasonal fruit.
- Tuck greenery into any vacant space. Serve.
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