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Our Holiday Cheeseboard is the perfect, quick and easy appetiser to help kick off your evening!
Finally, a ‘recipe’ with zero cooking, marinading, dressing, or thinking, when you already have a million things happening for your holiday feast. This loaded holiday cheeseboard is CRAZY! You have a turkey in the slow cooker thanks to our Crispy Skin Slow Cooker Turkey Recipe, a Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake setting in the fridge, and a whole other array of sides happening. But what about a starter? That’s where our extravagant holiday cheeseboard comes in!
EASY HOLIDAY CHEESEBOARD
Truth be told… I had the time of my life building this holiday 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 (ugghummm, 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.
Ahhh, YES PLEASE.
HOW TO ASSEMBLE A CHEESEBOARD
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 holiday 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, seedless grapes, olives, sun dried tomato, marinated feta, pomegranates, nuts, brie cheese, American cheddar, parmesan, cornichons (or mini pickles), etc!
YES. There WAS wine involved during and after shooting these photos. A nice, chilled bottle of moscato. That’s the only way to eat a cheeseboard right?
HOW TO MAKE A GOOD HOLIDAY CHEESEBOARD
The great thing about cheeseboards is that you have full creative freedom. Much like art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! If you want some more colour on your cheeseboard, add some fresh raspberries. Don’t like marinated feta? Try goats cheese instead.
I think the trick is to make your board look as full as possible, giving every ingredient its own space and ensuring you have some subtle sweetness to break up the savoury.
So easy to throw together! How do you make your cheeseboard?
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Holiday Cheeseboard
Ingredients
- 5 bread twists or sticks, I used garlic and rosemary
- 8 prosciutto thinly sliced
- 8 Hungarian salami thinly sliced
- 4 fresh figs
- 1 pear fresh, sliced
- 1 handful red seedless grapes
- 1 handful olives I used a mixture of cream cheese stuffed green olives, seedless Kalamata olives, and marinated olives
- 1 handful marinated sun dried tomatoes
- 1 handful roasted almonds
- 1 handful salted pistachios
- 1 handful roasted walnuts
- 1 handful salted cashews
- 1 wheel double cream brie double cream brie, American cheddar, marinated Feta and Italian parmesan cubes
- 1 block American cheddar
- 1 marinated feta
- 1/2 block Italian parmesan cheese
- 1 handful pomegranate seeds
- 1 handful bagel poppyseed crisps
- 1 handful ritz crackers
- 1 handful water crackers
- 1 handful dried apricots
- 1/2 handful mini pickles
Instructions
- Arrange everything on a large board or platter. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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. 🙂
This is awesome Karina, I know my family will love this!!
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!
What a delicious looking cheeseboard. How long did it take you to put together?
Thanks for sharing? It looks so delicious ? I try next time for Italian dinner as antipasti?