Cheese Platter

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Serves 30| Hands-On Time: 10m | Total Time: 2hr 00m

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 pounds Great Hill Blue, Point Reyes' Original Blue, or Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk
  • 1 pound Pierre Robert, Bingham Hill's Poudre Puff, or Sally Jackson's Guernsey
  • 1 1/4 pounds Appleby's Cheshire, Cabot Creamery's Vintage Choice Cheddar, or Grafton Village Cheese Company's Four Star Cheddar
  • red or green grapes, pears, apples, or clementines
  • assorted breads and crackers

Directions

  1. Cheese tastes best at room temperature, so take your selections out of the refrigerator 2 hours before the party begins.
  2. Decorate the platters with the fruit. Serve with the bread and crackers.
     
    Note: Offer 3 different types of cheese, and label them so guests don't have to guess what they are eating and will know the name if they want to buy some for themselves.
By Kay Chun and Jane Kirby,  December 2002

Nutritional Information

  • Per Serving
  • Calories 193
  • Calcium  264mg
  • Carbohydrate  1g
  • Cholesterol  49mg
  • Fat  16g
  • Fiber  0g
  • Iron  0mg
  • Protein  12mg
  • Sat Fat  10g
  • Sodium  476mg
What does this mean? See Nutrition 101.

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Keep cheese in the vegetable drawer with an unwrapped head of lettuce, which will provide the right level of humidity.

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