A Holiday Cheeseboard to kick off your day/night with an easy and quick, throw together cheeseboard!
Finally, a ‘recipe’ with zero cooking, marinading, dressing, or thinking when you already have a million things happening for your feast. This Loaded Holiday Cheeseboard is CRAZY! You have a turkey in the slow cooker thanks to this recipe, a cheesecake setting in the fridge, and a whole other array of sides happening. But what about a starter? More importantly, what about preparing something that requires zero skill and no cooking?!
Cheeseboard for the win!
EASY HOLIDAY CHEESEBOARD
Truth be told… I had the time of my life building this cheeseboard. Whenever I get a moment to myself (forgotten what that feels like now), my favourite pastime is creating an epic cheeseboard with a glass/bottle of wine; sitting on the floor while binge-watching This Is Us (don’t judge — I’m Jack-obsessed), and getting lost in meat, cheese and all things pickled. This has also been known in my life as LUNCH.
YES.
Usually I grab what I have, and since I love boards like this, I’m always fully stocked with jars of sun dried tomatoes, pickles, a fridge full of cheese and cold meats, and crackers in the pantry.
The best thing about a cheeseboard is that you can arrange it with ingredients or elements YOUR family loves, and however you want.
For this one I went with herbed breadsticks, bagel crisps, water crackers, dried apricots, fresh figs, pear slices, prosciutto slices, prosciutto WRAPPED figs (+HELLO), seedless grapes, olives, sun dried tomato, marinated feta, pomegranates, nuts, brie, American cheddar, parmesan, cornichons (or mini pickles), etc!
YES. There WAS wine involved during and after shooting these photos. I nice, chilled bottle of moscato.
Loaded HOLIDAY Cheeseboard
So easy to throw together! How do you make your cheeseboard?
Holiday Cheeseboard
Ingredients
- Bread twists or sticks I used garlic and rosemary
- Thinly Sliced Prosciutto
- Thinly Sliced Hungarian Salami
- Fresh Figs
- Fresh Sliced Pear
- Red seedless grapes
- Olives I used a mixture of cream cheese stuffed green olives, seedless Kalamata olives, and marinated olives
- Marinated Sun Dried Tomatoes
- Roasted Almonds
- Salted Pistachios
- Roasted Walnuts
- Salted Cashews
- Assorted cheeses double cream brie, American cheddar, marinated Feta and Italian parmesan cubes
- Pomegranate Seeds
- Bagel Poppyseed Crisps
- Ritz Crackers
- Water Crackers
- Dried Apricots
- Mini Pickles
Instructions
- Arrange everything on a large board or platter. Serve immediately.
Josh says
I like to start with a drink or two and then head to my favorite store with the good cheeses. The alcohol allows me to justify the cost stuff like this since it will probably be 80$;by the time I am satisfied with everything. 🙂
Food Shot says
This is awesome Karina, I know my family will love this!!
Patricia Brewer says
This is so elegant! I call “dibs” on you coming to my house and making my holidays beautiful! I get so excited when I see an email from you. I know it’s something that I’m going to have to make. Love having easy but beautiful foods. Thank you for being so brilliant!
Vicki says
What a delicious looking cheeseboard. How long did it take you to put together?
Daniela says
Thanks for sharing? It looks so delicious ? I try next time for Italian dinner as antipasti?