Recommend me a cracking cheeseboard

I’m ditching the xmas dinner starter this year in favour of an indulgent post-dinner cheese and port fest. I’d like to try something different than the stilton / mature cheddar / brie selection. Any suggestions?

Oh and port also – up to about £20.

TiA

DS

for 20 pounds you’ll get nothing approved by STW. go buy a carrera from halfords you horrible poor man.

Good idea to go for a hard cheese, soft cheese, blue cheese and something else, maybe a goats cheese.

Vacherin Mont d’Or is quite unusual. The important thing is to get good quality cheeses, as opposed to vac-packed plastic. A really good Cheddar is amazing for example. Likewise, a high-quality Gruyere is lovely whilst the cheap stuff is a bit flavourless.

it must have Cheshire, the king of cheeses, on it. Other than that, I don’t mind.

I got sent a cheese selection by a supplier the other day.

Sampled the Bath Blue and Wyfe of Bath from it at the weekend – both very nice.

http://www.parkfarm.co.uk/our-cheeses/

Wensleydale & Christmas cake is all you need

Is The Farm Dairy in Knaresbourgh still going strong?
If so google the website.

What the proprieter, Mark, doesnt know about cheese aint worth knowing.

Oh, and it’s better to have fewer high quality cheeses rather than lots of low quality cheese.

Agreed!
Farm Dairy use to (may still) import a 10 year matured Gouda that was truly food of the gods!

Something like Wensleydale and Cranberry, Goats Cheese, Mature Cheddar, a blue cheese…oh I’m salivating just thinking about it! Don’t eat cheese with cake though, despite how much I love both and I normally love eating weird things together, I just can’t do the Christmas cake with cheese.

Whatever you do, make sure the cheese has time to come up to room temp before eating. Nowt worse than cold cheese 🙂

I can’t do cheese with fruit in. Vile. I assume it’s created for people that don’t really like cheese and want something light and fruity instead. It usually seems to be white stilton or Wensleydale or somesuch.

Yep.. origin is all that really counts. – And avoid everything with added “stuff”.

Well first of all, Derek (you dont mind me calling you derek do you? Mr starship seems awfully formal), you’ll need a board, and some cheese. That should be sufficient. For an extra festive touch, you could nail a baby robin to the board, it’s mournful tweets will be sure to add an extra christmassy frisson to the occasion.

Dairylea and Philadelphia for me.

Is The Farm Dairy in Knaresbourgh still going strong?

My home town 🙂 Nobody ever talks about Knaresborough any more – it’s all Harrogate this and Harrogate that.

But for Christmas cheeses, a good selection of quite obvious ones would be the safest – of course a Wensleydale and then a smoked, a blue and probably a god old mature cheddar. Don’t try to be clever, get cheeses people will thoroughly enjoy and indulge in.

stinking bishop
chevington if you can get it
have to have a proper stilton on there, its christmas!

Old Amsterdam if you can find it
Wooky Hole cheddar’s good
If you go for a range of mature cheeses, see if you can find some hinese seaweed crackers

One of the lads at work brought some M&S Cornish Crunch in yesterday, mature English Cheddar with crystallised bits in it, absolutely superb.

OOOOOh just remembered got to have a bit of Smoked Applewood!!
Glitter Gary .. you have forgotten Laughing Cow!

Are Glitter G and Munqe having Christmas Lunch together at a Happy Eater this year?

Blacksticks blue is my favourite at the mo.

I will probably be deemed a heathen for suggesting it, but I like the cheese with bits of chilli in it that you can get from the deli counter in Tesco.

Right – sorted – a tube of Primula and some ritz crackers served on a ceiling tile.

Ta.

Dont forget the robin!

What 6” nail for nailing a robin to a cheeseboard?

And if you nailed it, wings apart, from the tips, it could signify the crucifixion – very seasonal.

What 6” nail for nailing a robin to a cheeseboard?

It’s a baby robin you mong. A 6″ nail is way over the top. A couple of small tacks in the feet should suffice.

Oh, and for cheese a nice roule.

don’t get Stilton; see if you can get a piece of Stichelton instead.

http://www.stichelton.co.uk

Organic West County mature cheddar (Sainsbury’s do a goodie) and as mentioned above, it must be served at room temperature.

Colston Bassett stilton is a must! Preferably get all you cheese from a good cheesemonger who will make sure you get your cheese in tip-top condition. Makes a heck of a difference.

English cheeses are the best
cornish yarg
somerset brie
cheddar – waitrose has one called type something (55?)
stilton
don’t forget the grapes and celery

English cheeses are the best
cornish yarg
somerset brie
cheddar – waitrose has one called type something (55?)
stilton
don’t forget the grapes and celery