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Anonymous
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Thanksgiving host suggested last minute we bring a hors d'oeuvre like cheese and crakers.
Can you suggest something more sophisticaded but equally uncomplicated? Thank you. |
Anonymous
| Pear and apple slices and grapes. Multiple cheeses, multiple kinds of crackers and maybe cocktail bread. Maybe add a tapenade. Serve on a great plate with great knives. GL |
Anonymous
| Endive stuffed with blue cheese crumbles, add some spiced chopped nuts (I like pecans), mandarin orange slices, and a touch of honey. Stage and serve. |
Anonymous
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Fig jam as a condiment for the cheese & crackers.
A bowl of spiced nuts (i.e: cinnamon almonds) or a mix of dried cranberries & nuts. A warmed-up brie cheese in Phyllis dough with apricot jam. Assortment of olives. |
Anonymous
| PP here. Or a dried salami to serve with the cheese & crackers? |
Anonymous
this is exactly that we are doing-plus wasabi peas and almonds |
Anonymous
+ another 1 on this. We do at least 3 cheeses--a soft one (brie or camembert), a goat cheese/ash one (Humboldt Fog or our local Monocacy Ash), and a semi-hard one like Parano, Emmenthaler, or Gruyere. More is even merrier. If we do a 4th it's usually blue or something stinky. |
Anonymous
Very nice (but a little more effort). If anyone doesn't like blue cheese you could do some with plain crumbled chevre. |
Anonymous
| The cranberry goat cheese log from Trader Joe's or Costco is always a huge hit, completely disappears, and looks nicer than just cheese. |