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It’s National Cheese Lovers’ Day!
I’m a day late I know but I’m compelled to write about how much I love cheese! @andie
Talking about cheese isn’t enough for me — I’m going to make a cheese platter for lunch with the cheeses left over from Christmas — New Year.
Because I love cheese so much, I usually buy the cheeses for any get together. No, really it’s probably because I know cheeses better than anyone else.
I’m a cheese snob.
When I go to a party and they have hard cheese cubes, sliced kabana and cocktail onions, I chuckle to myself but also feel extremely sorry for them. They haven’t changed since the 70s when this was all that was available.
To make a cheese platter, I put out a selection of hard and soft cheeses although there’s more deliciousness and varieties of soft cheeses — blue, triple cream Brie, Camembert, white Castello with or without truffles, goats’ cheese, fruit and herb cheeses, to name a few.
My favourite hard cheeses are spiced with cumin, or peanuts (hard to buy but produced locally), Gouda, Edam, Swiss, havarti, jarlsberg, and Stilton blue ( yum!)
Add a couple of dips — the ones in the terracotta pots are the tastiest — some stuffed olives or baby peppers, some antipasto, some grapes, some jam or quince paste, even some dolmades if it’s going to be a meal — the list is endless.
Then add your favourite crackers, grissini or French baguette and you’re all set. What have I forgotten?
Oh yes — the champagne! 🥂Cheers to a happy cheese lovers’ day!🥂
