This decadent holiday cheese & charcuterie board boasts layers of complexity and features some of our most loved and prized meats and cheeses, plus luscious pâtés, sweet jams, briny olives, delicious crackers, and nuts. We’ve listed some of our favorite options for cheeses, spreads, charcuterie, dips, bites, and crackers, so you can experiment with the combinations you love. We recommend choosing one to two of each hard and soft cheesse, plus one pate, one to two types of charcuterie, one sweet dip, one savory dip, two to three bites (perhaps one olive and two crunchy bites), and one or two cracker options. To arrange your board, start by spacing out the larger items (cheeses and dips on a large platter or board, then arrange your charcuterie in one section, and use the small bites to fill in any empty space on your board. The best boards are packed with an ample amount of treats to choose from!
Ingredients
- Cheese
- Pâté
- Charcuterie
- Sweet Dips
- Savory Dips
- Bites
- Crackers
Preparation
Cheese (choose 1-2 hard and soft)
Mystic Cheese Melinda Mae
Briar Rose butterbloom
Quickies goat’s milk clothbound cheddar, mature clothbound cheddar, and/or oak smoked clothbound cheddar
Salt Spring Island basil soft goat cheese
Ski Queen classic caramel cheese and/or goat salty caramel cheese
Caseifici Rosso Birba blue
Kris Lloyd Artisan buffalo Persian feta cheese with Outback chili
Gourmino Le Gruyère AOP
Pâté (choose 1)
Gilbert & Bernard bistro-style mousse with cognac and black pepper
Gold Medal Pate
Alexian duck liver and pork mousse with cognac
Charcuterie (choose 1-2)
Fermin Lomo De Bellota Berico
il Porcellino Salumi (orange pistachio or spiced juniper)
Niman Ranch uncured capocollo
Brooklyn Cured bresaola air-dried beef
Sweet Dips (choose 1)
3 Little Figs – French onion confit, quince honey rosemary, and/or plum fig and cherry chutney
Scyavuru Sciciliar black fig jam
Oh! Berries marionberry fruit spread
Savory Dips (choose 1)
Stonewall Kitchen artichoke pesto
Moutarde Royale mustard with cognac
Anfosso sage pesto
The Bread Dip- Sun-dried tomato and/or Casina Rossa – Sun-dried tomato spread
Bites (choose 2-3)
Castellino grilled olives
Mina Moroccan dry-cured olives
Partanna castelvetrano green olives
Lars imported crispy onions
Zupan’s Valencian almonds with herbs, candied almonds, caramelized walnuts
Mitica Chocohigos
Crackers (choose 1-2)
Zupan’s crostini
Matiz & Ines Rosales Crispy tortas
Joy Full everything parmesan crisps
John Wm Macy’s Cheese sticks
Rustic Bakery artisan crisps