How To Serve Cheese

By June Enright, 01 Mar 15:51

Cheese is a great addition to a dinner party. Learn to how serve it with style.

Serving cheese is a perfect way to build your repertoire of tried and true make-ahead dishes. It's a fast and easy appetizer course or dessert course. Cheese is so versatile. And it is always a crowd-pleaser.

You use the presentation techniques for either course.

How nice to have one dish that you can serve either before or after dinner.

Serving tips
A great bonus of serving cheese is that you can arrange your cheese tray hours in advance of your dinner party. Just cover it over with plastic wrap until you take it out of the frig for serving.

cheese tray Give your cheese time to soften a bit. Make sure to take your selections out of the frig about half an hour or more before you serve them. That way they can soften up, and their flavors will not be masked by cold.

Use a flat plate
Place your selection, crackers and garnishes on an attractive plate with a surface flat enough to allow people to cut on it.

Wooden plates work especially well. A lazy Susan wooden tray is even nicer, because people can sit around it at the table and idly turn it to cut “just another tiny bite” as they chat. But if you don’t have a lazy Susan tray, a plain one is fine.

Marble plates are lovely too, but it is best to use them when the plate will stay in one place. Marble trays tend to be quite heavy for passing around.

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