Blue cheese platter and pairings
My favorite blue cheeses and food and wine pairings.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 blue cheeses
- 3 cups walnut halves
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 1 t salt
- 1 t pepper
- Raw honey or honey comb
- Fig preserves
- Apples, pears or fig slices
- Dried cherries
- Sliced baguette
Instructions
- Set your cheeses out three hours before serving.
- In a skillet toast walnuts over medium heat for a couple minutes. Sprinkle half the sugar over the walnuts and stir until sugar dissolves. Sprinkle salt, pepper and remaining sugar over sugared nuts and stir to combine. Turn on your fan as the pepper will smoke. Stir until sugar crystals dissolve and caramelize. Spread glazed walnut halves on a sheet of tinfoil, separating each nut so they don’t clump together. Let cool. You can make these nuts up to a week ahead of time.
- Arrange the three cheeses on a platter with small bowls of honey and fig preserves. Spread nuts, fruit slices and dried cherries in between cheeses. Serve with baguette slices.