The cranberry goat cheese log from Trader Joe's or Costco is always a huge hit, completely disappears, and looks nicer than just cheese.

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.

Very nice (but a little more effort). If anyone doesn't like blue cheese you could do some with plain crumbled chevre.

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.

+ 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 wrote: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.

this is exactly that we are doing-plus wasabi peas and almonds

PP here. Or a dried salami to serve with the cheese & crackers?

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.

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.

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

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.