Because is there anything more fun than getting together with good friends around the holidays to celebrate with good food? The cheese board you see pictured here is about 16″ by 13″. So look for a tray roughly this size when you are making your cheeseboard. I like to buy one in each category. The board pictured here has four cheeses on it, but I bought more bricks so that I could replace the cheese as it gets eaten or add more variety. If you aren’t sure what to get, ask someone in your grocery store for help. Often stores have employees who are well versed in their cheeses. Or you can just pick different fun flavors that look interesting to you. The fun cheese pictured above with the green rind is a champagne flavored cheddar! Perfect for a charcuterie tray being put out at a holiday party. My love language is unique and new foods. But I wanted to take a short moment to tell you about them in case you have never had one. They are like a cross between an apple and a nectarine. They are great baked into a sweet treat. But they are also delicious raw, like I have them served on this cheese board. And seriously. That color. So gorgeous. I like to cut up the meats, for easy serving. I also slice one or two of the bricks of cheese. But the rest of the cheeses you can leave whole and leave cheese knives so your guests can cut their own. In addition to being a great party food, cheese boards make a great dinner for a small group of friends just sitting around talking.
