No fuss Entertaining with 4 Breads and 4 Cheeses

It's time for an easy Bread and Cheese Grazing Table

Friends we are talking about no fuss entertaining with 4 breads and 4 cheeses. Add a few condiments on the side and that's all you need to entertain a party of 10. There's really nothing easier than this idea I promise you.

What I like about it is the fact you can make it as hard or as easy on yourself as you wish. If you have the time and the know how you can make the homemade fresh bread yourself or you can go to the bakery and buy 4 different types of freshly made bread and you're done. 

Think about choosing both sweet bread and savory bread.

Think of it like this. The savory bread represents the main meal, and the sweet bread represents the dessert.

Let's talk Cheese ~

While you're at the store, pick yourself out 4 different types of cheese. It doesn't matter at all which cheese it is just make sure all 4 are different and make sure they are large wheels for slicing.

Then the condiments.... 

you guessed it, pick yourself out 4 spreadable condiments. Like... honey, jam, jelly, mustard, mayo, sandwich spread, horseradish spread, tuna spread, pickle relish, hot pepper relish, sweet pepper relish, plain cream cheese, fruit cream cheese or any of the full runs of herb butters or sweet fruit butters. This is where YOU get to choose the theme of your bread and cheese grazing table.

Now don't forget the 4 sides that everyone loves to eat along with bread and cheese. You know the ones. Like olives, onions, pickles and pears. 

Do you feel like going one more step?

Do you have a toaster? 

Maybe you would like to offer hot toasted bread and cheese. Keep in mind though... this would tie you down a bit serving your guests. So, you have to ask yourself... Do I want to be serving them all night or do I want to be part of mingling with them??

Can you get your hand on fresh herbs? 

Offer a selection of flavorful herbs to top the bread masterpieces.

Closing Thoughts ~

Friends as I said in the very beginning of this post, we are talking about no fuss entertaining with 4 breads and 4 cheeses. Add a few condiments on the side and that's all you need to entertain a party of 10. There's really nothing easier than this idea I promise you. Simple Entertaining! "Live Everyday like A Holiday." Pam

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Creating a Charcuterie Board / Grazing Platter for movie night at home

 It's movie night so what are you going to eat this time?

It's movie night at home so skip the potato chips and pizza and go with a charcuterie board for TV Time!  Too often we grab the potato chips, M&Ms, and salty popcorn when we settle into our comfy chair for movie night. But why not try something different and go with a "Charcuterie Board" full of treats. Not only will it feel like you went all out, but it will count as snack time and supper time too. The flavors on a Charcuterie board will satisfy both sweet, salty and savory taste buds alike. "Trust Me"

You know how it is when you're watching a movie...

You eat something sweet and then you need to eat something salty to get the sweet taste out of your mouth. Then you reach for something salty to get the sweet taste out of your mouth and it becomes a vicious circle of craving salt and sweet and salt and sweet. Well, I have good news! A Charcuterie Board will satisfy the full circle your taste buds crave.

A great way to use up the odds and ends in the refrigerator

How often have you looked in the fridge and found out you didn't have enough of this to do this, and you didn't have enough of that to do that? Well creating a TV Time Charcuterie Board using all the odds and ends in the refrigerator is the perfect way to go. This is a great way to clean out the refrigerator each week too.

So, here's what you do ~

It's traditional to put the food on a wooden board so go grab that big cutting board you have stuck in the corner of the kitchen that you never use. Open the fridge and drag out the last of the sandwich meat, the last of the 5 partial pieces of miscellaneous cheeses you have, find that 1/4 of a block of cream cheese that's about to mold... Drag out the last 12 olives in the jar, also drag out the scrapings of the sandwich spread that you made, drag out the end pieces of all 3 bags of bread you've had in there all week, and drag out those left-over carrots and celery that you had left from the chicken wings you ate yesterday. Wink~

Then reach to be back of the fridge and see what you feel. 

I bet you find that awesome jar of special preserves that you were gifted from the last holiday. You know you forgot all about it and it would be great on this "Charcuterie Board of yummies". How about some spicy pickles? You got any of those? Then place all of the above on the wooden board.

Then take a look at what's left in the fridge. 

What do you see? Do you have any flavored butters? Do you have any nuts? What about fruit? Do you have any grapes in there? What about figs? What about the last few crackers in the box? Well grab those too. You will find out you just cleaned out your fridge and gave you and your family a fantastic movie night supper.

Now take it all out of its old wrappings

Make it pretty now. Take it all out of its old wrappings and put it on the board. Once you do it's going to look like you just bought it and will fake everybody out. LOL~ You're going to say to yourself.... "Why haven't I done this before!!!" And you're going to be so proud that you cleaned out the fridge and made more room for the next grocery shopping spree your about to make too. Wink~

Closing words ~

💡That's my thoughts for today. It's good to be reminded that creating a delicious Charcuterie Board / Grazing Platter for yourself can be lots of fun to eat and can also clean out your fridge at the same time. What could be better right!  Well let me tell you... I just finished creating my very own Charcuterie Board. Yep!

👀 Now just so you know... I have a few more posts I'm writing about charcuterie boards so if this interests you then keep an eye out for them. I have some great pictures to share in the future too!

💻 I placed this post in the "Charcuterie Boards" category if you ever need to find it again. Remember this idea when celebrating any of the holidays in our calendar. Oh and.... when it's an anniversary in the family too! It will feel so fancy!

📸 If you ever want a close look at the picture I posted, just click the photo. It will expand in a large view window for a closer look. Then click the area you want to look even closer at and it will usually expand just that part of the photo too. 😀

📅 And as always, I've listed related 📅 calendar dates below 🠟, and any related shopping links 🛒 that would be helpful to this article. 

 "Live everyday like a holiday." Pam

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📅 September 26 / National Family Day

📅 September / Charcuterie Week in UK

📅 November 15 / National Clean out your Refrigerator Day

📅 September 29 / National Declutter Day

📅 National Family Month is observed during the five-week period between Mother’s Day in May and Father’s Day in June. 

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Munch for Lunch / Antipasto

 When you're tired and hungry what's the fastest thing to pull together for lunch?

You guessed it! The picture above is Antipasto! Now "Antipasto is the traditional first course of a formal Italian meal. Usually made of bite-size small portions and served on a platter that everyone can serves themselves from, the purpose of antipasti is to stimulate the appetite. Ok Italian readers do I have that right? At least that's what my research told me.

Well for me, I think this is the perfect "Munch for Lunch" 

This may be traditional for formal dinners but for me it's the perfect munch for lunch when you're tired and don't feel like going to a lot of trouble to fill your belly. It's so easy to open the fridge and pull out the cold stuff and munch out. I bet most of the stuff in your fridge right now is the makings for Antipasto. Now let's look into what actually is the common food for "Antipasto".

 Typical ingredients of a traditional antipasto include... 

...cured meats, olives, pepperoncini, mushrooms, anchovies, artichoke hearts, various cheeses such as provolone or mozzarella, (oh I love provolone cheese) (it's always in my frig) pickled meats, and vegetables in oil or vinegar.

Well, I've been eating Antipasto for lunch for years and didn't know it.

I had no idea my favorite things that I pull out of the refrigerator was the traditional first course of a formal Italian meal until I started doing some research and found my taste buds, had been craving Italian food. LOL~

My research said there was a seafood version too 

but I don't usually keep seafood in my frig and I don't think I have ever ate any seafood cold either. Nor have I ate any in olive oil or vinegar. That's an experience I haven't experienced yet. wink~

It seems the seafood version is calamari, mussels, smoked salmon, tuna fish, olives. What do you say? Do I have any readers from Italy? What else goes with this? I'm sure the contents of an antipasto vary greatly according to regional cuisine too.

It seems many people compare antipasto to hors d'oeuvre

but antipasto is served at the table and signifies the official beginning of the Italian meal. Do you know what this reminds me of? Take a look at the photo above again. If it was larger portions I would think it would pass as a Charcuterie Board spread don't you think? 

In Closing

Antipasto may also be referred to as a starter, or an appetizer. But today.... for meeee..... it was a meal and a no fuss meal that I thoroughly enjoyed.

 While this subject is fresh in my mind, I think I'm going to work up some posts about "Charcuterie Boards" and "Grazing Platters" for you guys. Everybody's always looking for easy ways to entertain so I'm thinking those posts would be helpful. So keep check if your interested in that. I will start doing my research on it come Monday ok.

And as always, I've listed related 📅 calendar dates below 🠟, and any related shopping links 🛒 that would be helpful to this article. 

"Live everyday like a holiday." Love Pam

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📅 February 13 / National Italian Food Day

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