What is on your ideal cheeseboard ?

[WildRosie]

Three 'firm' cheeses - Red Fox Red Leicester, Double Gloucester and Mature Cheddar. Two or three blues - Mature Blue Stilton and Shropshire Blue. Probably Yorkshire Blue as well. Butter if you want it. Water biscuits, sea salt crackers and digestive biscuits. Plus one or two dessert apples.

Drinks - Cabernet Sauvignon or Zinfandel, dry Chardonnay or vintage port.

Cheeses:
Hard - Smoked Cheddar, Cheshire, White Stilton with Apricots (or mango and ginger)
Soft - goats cheese with honey and walnuts, boursin (I love boursin)
Blue - Roquefort

Butter - but of course! That lovely butter with sea salt crystals (mouth watering)

Crackers - Hovis crackers, Cornish Wafers, Cheese Melts

Sides - Grapes, apples, chutney, prosciutto

Drinks - Port

I adore a cheese board.

Digestives and Wensleydale with cranberries... lots of!!

@lachy

Cheeses: Hard - Smoked Cheddar, Cheshire, White Stilton with Apricots (or mango and ginger) Soft - goats cheese with honey and walnuts, boursin (I love boursin) Blue - Roquefort

Butter - but of course! That lovely butter with sea salt crystals (mouth watering)

Crackers - Hovis crackers, Cornish Wafers, Cheese Melts

Sides - Grapes, apples, chutney, prosciutto

Drinks - Port

I adore a cheese board.

I had an amazing pizza in Venice with goats cheese, honey and walnuts... I still think about it!

Stilton
Canadian cheddar
A really good Red Leicester
A really good Cheshire or Wensleydale
Goat’s cheese

Salted roast almonds
Beetroot chutney
Celery
Some apple
Pear
Black grapes
Some mini cornichons
A couple of really good little cherry vine tomatoes

A good selection of different crackers and biscuits

Merlot or Pinotage
Port or occasionally pink port with ice which I like too

God I’m hungry now

Etivaz
And a knife and fork

Lovely red Rioja, Lidl do a nice one.

Cheese - hate blue cheese but some nice Brie or Camembert, smoked cheese, some gruyere (is that how you spell it), port salut and some mature cheddar. I’m not fussed, I just like cheese.

@SallyParkersMum

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Oh forgot to say, crackers. No grapes or any of that rubbish.

I really don't like blue or goats cheeses (and, yes, I've tried lots of different ones) so I'd have

Aged Gouda
Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher
Jarlsberg
A good mature cheddar
Morbier
Boursin

Prosciutto

Mixed crackers & water biscuits
Red onion chutney
Grapes
Pear

Merlot or Sauvignon Blanc

All of the above! Yum!

Plus a nettle cheese from a gorgeous place in Northumberland

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Ooohhh... thank you!! 🥰

Now I really want a cheese board!
Mine has to include Stilton and Applewood. Morrisons salt and pepper fresh crusty bread or nice crackers. Olives, mixed nuts, apple and pickles. Hmm, mine sounds more like a plough man's lunch!

Brie de Meaux
Blacksticks Blue
Manchego
Assorted crackers
Onion marmalade
Port

Roquefort
Grapes
Maybe crackers but honestly not that fussed.

Soft: black pepper Boursin - really hard to find these days. And Pié D'angloys.

Hard: Blue Stilton - really creamy, pale crumbly and young not waxy and yellow. Maybe Comté and a really good slightly acidic cheddar like Chewton

Lots of grapes, fresh figs, celery sticks, pots of home made chutney, Carr's water biscuits, charcoal crackers and other fancy seedy crunchy biscuits. And some Hovis biscuits too.

Some light red wine - Fleurie or Brouilly or Duo.

I want this for dinner now. Not had cheese for ages!

Now I've RTFT I also want those salted almonds, baby cornichons, pears and apples.

Glad too see we have lots of fans of lots of cheeses. I once tried Danish Blue - the flavour was way too strong for my taste but it made a good pasta sauce. I think I adapted a Pizza Express recipe.

M and s cheese with truffle in
Mature cheddar with pickle or balsamic onions in
Mature cheese with marmite in
Marmite cream cheese
Brie
The soft cheese you out in the oven from Aldi in the brown ceramic pot
Nothing blue

Colston Basset Stilton
Gruyère or comté
Livarot
Chèvre

Carr’s water biscuits
A freshly baked baguette.
A cox’s apple.
Lurpak
Port

Any cheese at all - have just given cheese up for Lent! It is going to be a loooong 40 days (leaves thread sobbing quietly whilst dreaming of molten Brie).... what was I thinking?!?!?!

We're so lucky to have a proper cheesemonger where we live. She's happy to let you try a cheese before you buy too.

A lovely strong West Country cheddar, Tintern cheddar, Gruyere, a Brie, Oxford Blue.

Has anyone heard of a hard yellow cheese called Mamod or Mammot or something similar? I had a gorgeous cheese at a restaurant in Wales last year and when I asked, that’s what I thought they’d said it was called. I asked twice and then was too embarrassed to ask again, and thought, I’ll google it but bloody google hasn’t been able to shed any light on the matter.

Oh yes, lurpak, Marks cheddar and chive crackers, Cheddars biscuits, Tuc crackers and Jacobs cream crackers. Plus maybe apple slices and grapes.

A crunchy cheddar
Manchego
Mature Gouda
Goats cheese
Stilton
Boursin
Emmental
Cornish Yarg
Onion marmalade
Beetroot chutney (with the goats cheese, drool)
Box of assorted crackers
Butter definitely
Rioja
Port

Stinky Brie
Blacksticks Blue
Local Sheep’s Cheese
Goats Cheese
Crumbly Lancashire
Decent Cheddar

Nice crackers - love Aldi’s.