Cheese Board From Heaven | Yum!
I might as well admit that I love cheese!
From my childhood I loved overripe cheese, especially those that were as old as they sell them in the supermarkets. Many people think these are disgusting, well, not me! The salty flavor is so good! I can enjoy a slice of Old Amsterdam any time of the day. But not too much of it because that will bother me later on, it's a trigger for heartburn. But that doesn't stop me from eating it from time to time. It's not something that I have in the house all the time, but every month I buy it once maybe.
The holidays made me creative with food
We usually buy some cheeses for those Christmas and New Years evenings, this is not something new. But I never actually tried to make something really special like a full cheeseboard looking as nice as this one. I wanted to create a cheese party on the table. It may have been a little overboard, and no, we definitely didn't eat this all. But it was fun to prep and enjoy it while we were eating some of it. The leftovers can be eaten the next day without a problem, but then the picture doesn't look as nice anymore because of the missing parts of all the cheese.
How to pick the ingredients
Of course, there has to be a variety of cheese on a cheese board. But which ones is totally up to you! If you prep a board like this you can make it as crazy as you like and add as many cheeses as you want. You can also choose to only add half of the Camembert/Brie cheeses instead of adding the full cheeses like I did.
I think that cheese goes hand in hand with mustard, so I'm adding that for sure. I could have sworn that we had 2 sorts of mustard but when I was plating the board, I only had one. Shame, but we'll manage. You can also choose to add some honey or other dips if you like these.
What also goes hand in hand with cheese are pickles, I just love the combination of those. So besides four sorts of cheese on the big plate (and two bonus cheeses on a small one), I added pickles, olives, dried dates and two sorts of grapes to the plate. Of course, there were also two sorts of bread and cheese sticks involved!
I have to admit that I had several things in mind to add to the cheese board but while plating everything, it just didn't all work out for me as I had to work with the plates that were available. I seriously need a big bamboo cutting board for this.
The presentation
Above you see the main cheese board.
The bread and cheese sticks.
Two special cheeses, not even sure how they're called in English. I do know the left one is covered in mixed peppers and the right one with herbs. I never ate them before and bought them because I thought they looked nice. They turned out to be tasty, thankfully.
Some delicious fresh bread with Camembert & Brie. Topped with some fresh parsley. Yum!
Simple but delicious
I truly enjoy an evening with a cheese board or similar bites. The possibilities are endless, and you can make it as simple or crazy as you want. I already have some ideas for the next one, and will add some homemade salads to the plate.
This was my first time trying dried dates btw, so far I've only watched my boyfriend eat them and I didn't want to try them. But today I thought I should be more open to things that look weird and just try it. So I did, and I like them honestly. Maybe I will buy them more often as they worked well with the cheese board.
Having a nice snack in the evening doesn't have to be too complicated, and it's a nice practice to make the food look good while taking pictures.
Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Cheese or chocolate?? CHEEEEESE!!! 🧀 It doesn't get much better than that! Lovely presentation too.
Years ago, I would have called you nuts for picking cheese over chocolate, but now I 100% agree. I much rather have some cheese for a snack than chocolate, for sure!
Thank you for the compliment!
and now that you used the word, "nuts", I suddenly crave walnuts and pistachio. LOL. This is a major crisis in tropical Thailand at 11pm. One needs a mortgage for both anyway. Probably a signal to turn off and get some sleep.
I shall be dreaming about cheese. 😆
Oh you make me realize that I should have added some nuts as well haha. Next time! But is it that hard to get there? And expensive? That sucks! I do admit that many things here in Hungary are much more expensive than I was used to in other countries, like smoked salmon my gosh. It's like one bite and it's gone and 10 bucks poorer lol.
Pistachios I love love love. like in any form. But good night! Hopefully some pistachios pop up in your dreams as well :)
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This arrangement of food looks so fantastic! Cheese is my best friend that never lets me down or forsakes me! lolol My wife did a meats and cheese spread for Christmas Eve and it was fabulous. She is an artist and that sneaks into everything she does.
Oh you're making me hungry with that picture! Looks delicious!
Haha, funny how the creativeness inside us comes alive in everything that we do, I recognize that all too well.
Earlier I already decided I should also do one with meat and cheese soon, especially now that I've seen this one you're sharing, yum! Too bad that plenty of the meat (and fish and other things lol) I know from other countries are just not available here. I think once back in Spain, I will feel like a kid in a candy store :)
PS I take cheese and meat over candy any day haha!
Cheeeeeeseeee OMG!
Haha, ladies and gentlemen it seems like we found another cheese lover :)
I love cheese. This board looks so yummy, simple and elegant.😍
Thank you, it was very nice.. Time for another one soon lol. But then a slightly different one to keep some variety in there..