HOW TO SERVE CHEESE
Impress yourself, and then impress your friends!
This is how the pros do it! For cocktail parties and dinner parties, or just you and your friends! Maybe just you and your mate!
PLATE #5 THE AMERICAN CHEESE PLATE
INGREDIENTS:
- One-1 1/2 oz portion American goat cheese of your choice
- Same of any American sheep cheese
- Same of any American cow cheese
- Same of any American blue cheese
- 1 1/2 oz portion Paley Bar
- 3 slices La Quercia organic Iowa prosciutto
- Scant handful smoked almonds
- Your choice sweetest seasonal fruit, sliced into four bites OR berries
- Crusty bread of your choice, preferably a nut and dried fruit-spiked bread by Fairway’s Sarah Black
PROCEDURE:
Using full-sized dinner plates as if each were a clock, place cheeses at 10:00, 2:00, 4:00 and 8:00. Stack or fan hunks or slices of bread at 12:00, one atop the other. Place the almonds in the center of the plate, place the sliced fruit around the almonds; fold on the prosciutto at 11:00 and 1:00, 3:00 and 6:00, and put the portion of Paley bar at 7:00.
SUGGESTED BEVERAGE:
You needn’t get fussy; any American wines you like will be fine, perhaps one red and one white. Cider, hard or soft, works with all cheeses. Bourbon is recommended, too, preferably iced.
