Friday, December 14, 2012

Holiday Cheese Plates


It's holiday time and party time and short on 'time' time.  
Well the answer to winning dishes at pot luck parties is not a dish, it's a platter!  
Don't re-invent the wheel or spend hours shopping, schlepping, prepping, doing dishes, cooking and cleaning, just head on down to your local cheese monger, if you're on Maui, that would be Guava Gouda & Caviar, and have them cut a slice of a few great cheeses.  Maui Cheese was limited to grocery market cheese until this last decade;  and now Cheese on Maui, is basically cheese from all over the world.  We like to recommend at least all three animals - cow, goat and sheep.   Try to pick cheese from  three different countries, so lets say cow from France, Sheep from Spain, and Goat from the USA!  
Now make sure you have three textures, creamy, soft, and aged, or somewhere in the middle of each. 
You can't go wrong with cheese.  It's a no-brainer.  
Maui's Finest Gourmet Cheese & Wine Shop