Blue Cheese and Honey Cheeseboard

Blue Cheese and Honey Cheeseboard

  • Serves: 8

  • Prep Time: 15 minutes

  • Cooking Time: No cooking needed

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Ingredients

  • 1 wedge good blue cheese (about 200 g)
  • 1 aged cheddar or a hard sheep's cheese
  • 1 soft cheese — brie or a triple cream
  • 1 jar Lush Lychees Creamed Honey
  • 100 g walnuts, lightly toasted
  • Fresh pear and grapes, or fresh lychees in season
  • Water crackers and a seeded lavosh
  • Cracked black pepper

Honey that stays where you put it, next to the cheese that needs it most.

Blue cheese and honey is a classic pairing because sweetness tames the salt and the sharpness. Creamed honey is better here than runny — it sits in a neat spoonful beside the cheese rather than running across the board and into the crackers.

Method

  1. Take all the cheese out of the fridge an hour before serving. This single step improves a cheeseboard more than anything else you can buy for it.

  2. Set the jar of creamed honey on the board, open, with its own small spoon or a honey dipper.

  3. Place the blue cheese immediately beside it — that pairing is the point of the board, so make the relationship obvious.

  4. Space the other cheeses apart with their own knives, and set the crackers along one edge.

  5. Fill the gaps with pear, grapes and walnuts, and grind black pepper over the walnuts.

  6. Cut the first piece of each cheese before people arrive.

Tips

  • Toast the walnuts in a dry pan for 3 minutes. Raw walnuts taste dusty and slightly bitter against honey.

  • If blue cheese is not for your crowd, a washed-rind or a firm goat's cheese takes honey just as well.

  • Allow about 100 g of cheese per person if the board is dinner, half that before a meal.
Blue Cheese and Honey Cheeseboard