Make Your Own Charcu-TREE Board This Winter!

​Create the most festive cheese & meat board together that’s perfect to impress guests, or drop off as a lovely treat for someone you love. And, don't think only tree, using this same concept you can build something like a festive wreath or even make this in the same of a dreidel! 

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Ingredients: 

• Veggies or Fruit: 
  Recommendation - choose 2 to 3: Sliced english cucumber, baby carrots, celery, cherry tomato, green or red seedless grapes, clementines, etc.
  
  
• ​Selection of Cheese: 
  Recommendation - choose 2 - 3: one soft cheese such as camembert or brie, one hard cheese such an aged cheddar, and one milder cheese such as Iberico or swiss
  
  
• ​Selection of Cure Meats: 
  Recommendation - choose 2 - 3: such as prosciutto, salami, kielbasa, or even cold cuts
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• 1 Spread: such as Red Pepper Jelly
  
  
• 1 bunch fresh herbs: such as fresh rosemary, thyme, or flat leaf parsley
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• Choice of crackers or french stick to serve alongside​

Tools to have ready: 

• Large single colour serving platter (it’s important for this to be a single colour so you can easily see the tree stand out). 
• small cutting board & knife
• small ramekin for jelly
• cheese knives & small serving tongs

To make: 

• On a large single colour or natural board, start at the bottom of the tree. Create a stump, and then work your way up from there creating each row to be slightly shorter than the one below layer in herbs, cheeses, alternating similar colours. Serve with crackers!