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How do you assemble a cheese board?
I'm having a small dinner party and want to have a cheese board before the sit down meal. What assortment do you put on your cheese board?
Thank in advance!
Re: How do you assemble a cheese board?
I try to just copy my favorite cheese board from a wine bar near me.
I like at least 2 types of cheeses, usually one is soft like goat cheese. Then a type of Italian sliced meat like a Soppressata with cracked pepper. I add a few dollops of honey and then something like an apricot preserve to go with the cheese, and then some nuts like pecans or hazlenuts. Serve with a crisp water cracker. I have a small wood table serving board I got from Williams-Sonoma to serve it on.
Our Best Bites did a post on it not too long ago. It might be helpful:
http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/12/how-to-create-a-cheese-plate/
(sorry it?s not clicky, I?m on Safari)
I would go with a variety of cheeses. I would do:
1. at least 1 mild cheese like a fresh farmers cheese or Havarti for a people who are not big into sharp and stinky cheeses
2. A sharp cheese like aged cheddar
3. Blue cheese
4. Goat cheese like chevre
5. Smoky cheese like guoada
6. Creamy cheese like brie
7. A hard cheese like parmesean
8. Swiss cheese
9. Something local and special like a yogurt cheese, olive cheese, herb cheese (I would get what ever is a specialty cheese that is at least semi local to where you are)
I would serve this with a sweet white wine, grapes, strawberries, figs, dried cranberries, crackers (plain and something with seeds), prosciutto, candied nuts (pecans or walnuts), olives (green and black), and preserves (strawberry, cranberry, apricot).