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    Home » Recipes » Appetizer Recipes

    A Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board

    Published: Feb 3, 2018 · Modified: Jan 17, 2024 by Philip Lago and Mystique Mattai · This post may contain affiliate links

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    When celebrating date night at home, we like to keep it simple yet equally special with meals that don’t take long to prep but are impactful enough to celebrate our relationship. Enter our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board. 

    Hands grabbing food from a cheese and charcuterie board

    Philip and I are always looking for fun and fresh date nights. They allow us to spend time with one another and reconnect after a busy week. While we love going out, our preferred date night of choice is spent in the comfort of our own home. It starts in the kitchen and ends on the couch with a glass of wine a movie, and sometimes our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board.

    There's something special about feasting with our fingers, sharing a single plate, and creating personalized combinations of meats, cheeses, and accouterments like our Sweet and Salty Chex Mix, boasting quality cheeses and flavors we adore.

    How to Assemble a Cheese and Charcuterie Board

    The Best Cheese for a Charcuterie Board

    When curating a board the most important thing is the variety of cheeses, textures, and flavors that anchor your platter. For our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board, we opted for the classic trifecta of Double Crème White, medium Extra Creamy Danish Blue, and rich Cream Cheese with Chives.

    Three images of the progress of styling a cheese and charcuterie board

    Charcuterie Board Meats

    Since we chose 3 cheeses we opted for 3 meats to go along with our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board. We included a gentle prosciutto, a spicy chorizo, and a hot salami. Incorporating a little heat on your cheeseboard adds to the spark between you and your partner.

    Cheese and Charcuterie Board with strawberries, crackers, nuts, prosciutto, and cranberries

    Crackers for Charcuterie

    The vehicle in which the cheese and meat enter your mouth should not be an afterthought. The flavor, texture, and shape of a cracker are all important to how the rest of your ingredients taste. We chose a simple water cracker, a rosemary fig artisan cracker, and a toasted baguette for additional texture. With so many cracker options it’s best to choose your favorites, it is after all about you two tonight.

    A white plate with salami, strawberries, almonds, chocolate and a cracker with blue cheese and cherry held over a cheese and charcuterie board

    The Crudités

    For our fruits and veggies, we chose ingredients that are known to spark romance between lovers. Pepperoncini, pickled asparagus, and olives are a must on any cheeseboard, but instead of grapes we chose the natural red heart-shaped strawberry, the delicate pink and purple sweetness of figs, and pomegranates, adding crunch and color to our board.

    Close-up of halved fig on a wood cheese and charcuterie board

    The Good Stuff

    Dark chocolate, honeycomb, and rich nuts like almond and pistachio add luxury and decadence to your romantic board and pair beautifully with your selection of cheeses (because what’s a cheese and charcuterie board without nibbles and small bites between the cheese and meat?). Bonus: use these ingredients to fill the empty spaces on your board, it’ll help it look more robust and full.

    Close-up side view of cheeseboard featuring sliced strawberries, chocolate squares, honeycomb and peppers

    The Spreads

    The final addition to your board is the jellies and jams. Skipping traditional store-bought spreads, we cooked down cranberries with pomegranates and smeared it over our Double Crème White for a blast of fruit jam with every bite. Also, for added richness on our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board, we pickled cherries and mashed them as a fruit compote pairing them perfectly with the Extra Creamy Danish Blue.

    Philip and Mystique's hands holding wine and "cheersing" with a round styled cheeseboard on a marble table

    The Wine

    Whenever Philip and I are grabbing a bottle of wine we always ask, so, where do we want to go tonight? Choosing a bottle of wine by its country of origin makes it more fun and secretly helps you prepare your cheeseboard with fun flavors that complement the wine and the country it’s from. For us, we hit the Vintage section of our local wine store and chose an Italian Chianti pairing perfectly with the cheese and romanticism of our board.

    No matter what you put on your Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie board, as long as you prepare it with love, you'll be sure to have a memorable night in. Remember, if you can't cook you better know how to put together a great board.

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    A styled Cheese and Charcuterie Board

    Date Night In: A Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board

    5 from 1 vote
    Philip Lago and Mystique Mattai
    When celebrating date night at home, we like to keep it simple yet equally special with meals that don’t take long to prep but are impactful enough to celebrate our relationship. Enter our Romantic Cheese and Charcuterie Board.
    Servings: 4 servings
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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 20 minutes mins

    Ingredients
      

    • 3 oz Castello Double Crème White
    • 3 oz Castello Extra Creamy Danish Blue
    • 3 oz Castello Cream Cheese with Chives
    • 2 oz prosciutto
    • 2 oz spicy salami
    • 2 oz dried sausage
    • ½ cup olives
    • ½ cup whole strawberries halved
    • 3 figs halved
    • ½ cup pickled peppers
    • ¼ cup almonds
    • 2 oz dark chocolate squares
    • 1 oz honeycomb
    • 6 tablespoon assorted jams divided
    • 24 assorted crackers divided

    Instructions
     

    • Place your feature cheeses on the board leaving lots of space around each.
    • Style the meat in bite sizes pieces in around the cheeses. Then place the crackers next to the meats.
    • Fill the remaining spaces of the board with your fruit, pickles, and other accoutrements.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 765kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 49g | Saturated Fat: 21g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 18g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 83mg | Sodium: 1700mg | Potassium: 596mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 34g | Vitamin A: 675IU | Vitamin C: 27mg | Calcium: 276mg | Iron: 4mg

    Additional Information

    Course: Appetizer, Food + Drink, Occasions
    Cuisine: Canadian, Comfort, north american
    Servings: 4 servings
    Calories: 765
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    1. Jennifer says

      February 22, 2018 at 11:14 pm

      You guys make the most beautiful cheese boards. Thanks for sharing your tips!5 stars

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      • Chef Sous Chef says

        February 22, 2018 at 11:16 pm

        Always happy to share our secrets 😉

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