{"id":12,"date":"2017-08-20T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-content.kaliumtheme.com\/restaurant\/?p=12"},"modified":"2017-08-20T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:28:23","slug":"charcuterie-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fattpundit.co.uk\/soho\/2017\/08\/20\/charcuterie-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Charcuterie and Cheese at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love weeknight date-nights in. So cozy and romantic. You get to pick the music, or maybe a movie, light some candles and just chill with your boo or friends. My favorite way to do an easy night in is, charcuterie and cheese, of course. Mike and I first discovered our love for charcuterie together. Way back in the day, a hot new restaurant opened in Vancouver, in a literal\u00a0alley in a very sketchy part of town. It was hipster before being hipster was a thing. They offered flights of meat and cheese for an insane amount of money and we fell in love.<\/p>\n

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After our fourth visit there, in 2 weeks, we wised up to the fact that we were spending an absurd amount of money on something that we could easily do at home. After all, the restaurant literally told us where they sourced their charcuterie from \u2013 this was way before made-in-house was a thing. So, we went right to the source, bought a bunch of our favorites, which we handily already knew, and went to town. I had the best time coming up with fun little accoutrements.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where your creativity can really shine! Pair cheeses and meats with jam, mustards, hot sauces, fruits, herbs, essentially anything you want. We like having a variety of breads and crunchy things too. I\u2019m really into\u00a0these rye crisps\u00a0and these\u00a0crispy crackers\u00a0and Mike loves toasty bread.<\/p>\n

We went a little crazy here, for fun, but you do you \u2013 you don\u2019t have to go crazy. Sometimes the best thing to do is to stick to one kind of meat, a really good mustard, and some olives. Keep it simple, keep it crazy, keep it you.<\/p>\n

I made some little flags, for fun, and plated the pate in a restaurant-like fashion. Sometimes when we hit up restaurants, we notice that they smear pate onto a plate, to the edge, to make it pretty, like\u00a0this.<\/a>\u00a0Super easy to do at home and as a bonus it looks kinda sorta homemade \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Charcuterie Pairing Ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 fancy salt:\u00a0 flaky sea salt, smoke sea salt, flavored salts
\n\u2022 finishing spices: shichimi togarashi, red pepper flakes,
\n\u2022 citrus fruit zest: orange is particularly nice, as are lemon and lime
\n\u2022 mustards: whole grain, dijon, English, Japanese
\n\u2022 wasabi
\n\u2022 herbs: Thai basil, mint, cilantro (this gives charcuterie a sort of deconstructed banh-mi feel, which we love)
\n\u2022 olives
\n\u2022 pickles
\n\u2022 hot sauce: tabasco, sriracha, sambal oelek<\/p>\n

Cheese Pairing Ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 fruit: thinly sliced pears, apples, cherries, stone fruits
\n\u2022 honey
\n\u2022 jam: apricot, strawberry, fig, cherry, apple, raspberry, orange marmalade
\n\u2022 tomatoes: thinly sliced or cherry tomatoes
\n\u2022 seeds and nuts: poppy seeds, toasted sesame seeds, walnuts, macadamias, marcona almonds, pecans, pistachios<\/p>\n

Of course, feel free to mix and match \u2013 go forth and meat and cheese with abandon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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