Halloween Inspired Charcuterie Board

I am back with another charcuterie board but this time and I have wanted to do a smaller Halloween theme for so long but have never gotten around to doing it. But this is the year, it is time! If you have been around, you might remember the HUGE Halloween Charcuterie Board that I did a few years ago- that thing covered my entire kitchen island and it might have been one of my favorite projects ever! For this board I wanted it to have spooky elements but not gross because that’s really not my style at all!

Now let’s take all these ingredients and make something really cool!

WHAT I USED!

• Moon drop grapes

• Pomegranate Seeds

• White aged cheddar

• Blue cheese

• Blueberry and cinnamon coated goat cheese

• Mini Brie Wheels

• Mike’s Hot Honey

• Milk chocolate covered almonds

• Merlot Bellavitano cheese

• Almonds, dried cranberries and dark chocolate mix

• Herb Coated Salami

• Prosciutto

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I also added in these little skulls that came in a pack from Target and the bag was secured with the even littler skulls that added a fun touch! Lastly, the spiders were a fun addition and I got those in a bag with some fake spiderweb decor which was also from Target. You can shop the skulls here and the spiders here!

The star of the show though was the CUTEST charcuterie board that I grabbed! I literally couldn’t walk away without this coffin charcuterie board. I liked that I could use it for a cheese board but it also doubles as home decor! After I got done with making the charcuterie board I put it up against the wall in front of an outlet in the kitchen and put the skull candle and a pumpkin in front of it for decoration!

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Winter Inspired Charcuterie Board

I haven’t made a charcuterie board in SO long! I was so happy that this was the schedule! We are back in the full swing of Bachelor nights and I am loving having a reason to make appetizers again! This week I created a charcuterie board which was a little winter inspired and a lot of fun to make.

What you will need

• Prosciutto

• Pepperoni

• Rosemary

• Fig Jam

• Blue Cheese stuffed Olives

• Garlic, Herb, and Olive Oil Gourmet Almonds

• Blue Cheese

• Manchego Cheese

• Extra Sharp Chedder

• Triple Cream Brie Wedge

• Swiss cheese

• Havarti Cheese

I am going to start making these about once a month just to show you guys how much flexibly there is when it comes to making a charcuterie board! I love all of the different options there are as well! If you want a candy board, make one! If you want just cheese and meats, absolutely go for it! You can do whatever you want with whichever ingredients you would like.

Christmas Grazing Table

This is honestly one of my favorite things that I have ever put together.. I love the way that it turned out! I’ve said this before but I think that when you have guests its hard to gage when people are hungry and I like having food around to snack on that people don’t feel weird about grabbing. It is so easy to put something like this {of any size} together that people can pick and choose what they like and don’t like and then you aren’t having to worry about making something that everyone will want to eat. Here is my Christmas Grazing Table!

The Setup

The decor that is on the table is 100% from Target! They are all old but you could easily find new versions of these things. The trees I found at the dollar spot along with most of the houses. The jingle bells, lighted garland and the pine cones are from the Christmas area of Target and then there are a couple of the houses that are Hearth and Hand!

The food

Cheeses

Brie Wheel

Manchego Cheese

Red Wine Soaked Goat Cheese

Dijon Herb Rubbed Fontina 

Dubliner Cheese

Aged Cheddar

Cabot Clothbound Cheddar 

Havarti Cheese

Blue Cheese

Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar

Mozzarella Balls

Meats

Prosciutto

Genoa Salami

Pepperoni

Chorizo

Extras 

Marcona Almonds

Table Crackers

Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers

Macaroons

Pistachios

Cranberries

Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives

A {Gluten Free} Friendsgiving Brunch

Here it goes!

I put it up to vote last week of weather you guys would like to see a Traditional Thanksgiving, Brunch, or a Fiesta and Brunch won by a landslide! Today I am sharing the details from our Friendsgiving brunch and I can’t wait for you to see how it turned out! Most of the things we made I found a recipe for on Pinterest and I will link you to it so you can get all the details from the original maker. I will also share if I tweaked or added anything to the recipe. But there are a couple of things that I created like the Orange Cranberry Mimosas!

Hash brown Breakfast Casserole - This recipe came from Kelsey from The Blue Cheese Bungalow {how cute is that name?!}. We loved this casserole, it was so yummy! Cheesy and delicious.

Maple Brown Sugar Bacon - I used Alea’s recipe from Premeditated Leftovers. I saw the picture of this recipe on Pinterest and I was sold. Then we made it and OH MY GOODNESS, it was GOOD. I had never had sweet bacon at all and I can’t believe that I waited this long to have it.

Gluten Free Pumpkin Waffles - This was a super yummy recipe from Audrey at Mama Knows Gluten Free. Very good, I put syrup on them but they were so yummy that I could have eaten them just by themselves.

Yogurt Bar - This is pretty self explanatory and I just put out yogurt with gluten free granola, brown sugar, chocolate chips and thinly sliced apples! Easy and delish!

Orange Cranberry Mimosas - See the ingredients and instructions below!

For the decor, I wanted to keep it simple because we made all of the food as well, I went with an easy burlap table runner and some small white pumpkins! I will link all of the details below. I had so much fun putting this together and it really felt like the perfect combination of easy and delicious! As always I would love to know if you end up trying anything from this post, it would make my day!

Halloween Grazing Table

Last week I wrote a post talking about the things I was going to buy for our Halloween party and then on Friday we actually had the party. It. Was. So. FUN! And the grazing table was a hit! One thing that I needed to let go of right away when I started that day was that it wasn’t going to look exactly the way I had it pictured and that was okay! I should have taken my own advice from the start and remembered that I can’t do what I want when I am doing a charcuterie board and there aren’t any rules! If you are new around here I put that in pretty much every single post that I have done with a charcuterie board in it. Well lets get down to it, if you need the halloween decor you can get that here! The only thing left to share is the food and the final result.

I should also note that we did 90% of our shopping for the Halloween Party at Costco and then some miscellaneous last minute things that I decided I had to have from Target. But all of these things can really be picked up from anywhere that sells cheese! I like to think of this post more as inspiration to get ideas for your own tables because again you get to do what you want!

What you will need

Meats

• Prosciutto

• Genoa Salami

• Dry Cured Chorizo

• Pepperoni

• Peppered Salami

Extras

• Marcona Almonds

• Olive oil & Oregano mixed together

• Macaroons as a sweet treat

• Table Crackers and Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers

• Fig Jam, Honey and Crushed Pistachios

• Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives

Cheeses

• Goat Cheese

• Dijon Herb Rubbed Fontina

• Dubliner Cheese

• Mozzarella Balls

• Aged Cheddar

• Cabot Clothbound Cheddar

• Havarti

• Brie Wheel

• Manchego

• Monteau Alpine

• Red Wine Soaked Goat Cheese

• Blue Cheese

• Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar

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Before this year we had never really had a Halloween Party before but this was so much fun I feel like this might become a yearly event! Both my husband and I love to entertain so I’m not sure how we haven't ever done anything like this. I also see a Christmas party in our future haha! Do you guys have parties around the holidays?!

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Fall Inspired Charcuterie Board

I am back with another charcuterie board but this time I used things that remind me of fall! I used things like apples, caramel, pumpkin seeds and other fall things that I chose pretty much because they made me happy haha which I think is a perfect way to choose things to put on your charcuterie board! You will see in the video below that I changed my mind quite a bit on the layout of the board. I start one way but then change it and that is the best part, it can be whatever I want it to be!

What you will need

• Red apples (I used gala…I believe)

• Caramels

• Salami

• Dried apricots

• Aged Cheddar cheese

• Artigiano cheese

• Green apples

• Blue cheese stuffed olives

• Gouda cheese

• Jam (I used strawberry rhubarb)

• Camembert cheese

• Gluten free table crackers

• Gluten free multi-seed rice crackers

• Rosemary for garnish

• Pepperoni {not pictured}

• Prosciutto {not pictured}

Gluten Free Game Day Board

Honestly, this was SO much fun to put together. My husband helped me with this because there were so many components but it was so worth it in the end. We had a blast together doing this and that was the best part! I mean not to mention the food we got to eat after lol

Menu

Fried Ravioli

Ham & Pickle Rollup Dip

Guacamole, Salsa and chips

Chicken Parmesan Bites

Mozzarella Sticks

Veggies and dip

Mixed Pepper Pinwheels

Stuffed Mushrooms

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Buffalo Chicken Dip

16 oz of cream cheese

1 cup of buffalo wing sauce

2 shredded chicken breasts

1 1/2 cups Mozzarella

For this you will put everything together in a crockpot and let the cream cheese get gooey, mix everything together and keep warm until you are ready to serve!

Ham & Pickle Roll Up Dip

8 oz ham

16 oz dill pickles

16 oz of cream cheese

For this recipe, I put the ham and pickle into a food processor or chopper and get everything super fine. Mix it into the room temperature cream cheese. Chill in refrigerator until ready to serve. Serve cold.

Flour Mixture for batter

4 cups of flour

1 tbsp Cayenne

2 tbsp Garlic Salt

1 tbsp Salt

1 tbsp pepper

Super simple, just mix all of the ingredients together! We used the same flavors for the Chicken Parmesan Bites, Fried Ravioli and Mozzarella Sticks.

Guacamole

2 large avocados

2/3rds of a red onion chopped finely

5-8 cherry tomatoes diced

1 tablespoon of garlic salt

salt and pepper to taste

Chop everything up and mix together, super easy! I usually do this towards the beginning of prep just so all of the flavors and get worked in together. TIP: to make sure the guacamole doesn’t get brown, take plastic wrap and push it all the way down to the guacamole and make sure there is no air getting to it. It will stay green much longer this way.

Stuffed Mushrooms

4oz cream cheese

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 cup mozzarella

8-10 mushrooms

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Combine all of the ingredients and spoon a tablespoon of the mixture into the hollowed out mushroom. Put them on the cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes and then broil to brown the top.

Pepper Pinwheels

5 diced mini sweet peppers

4oz cream cheese

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 cup mozzarella

1/8 cup roasted red peppers

1/8 cup diced Green chilis

3 gluten free tortillas

Combine all of the ingredients and spread onto the tortillas. Roll them up and stick them into the fridge until hardened and cut into 1/2 inch pieces.

Shopping list

Bachelor in Paradise: Dessert Board

Going into the third week of Bachelor in Paradise, I wanted to make something that wasn’t too complicated and something that I was able to just throw together and bring to the get together. I decided to put together a dessert spread that is much like a charcuterie board but full of one of my favorite foods, chocolate! Now I couldn’t just add 12 different kinds of candy to the board so I broke it up with a few kinds of fruit as well, very tasty! I mean lets be honest, I totally could have used 12 kinds of candy buuutttt I opted not to haha

What you will need

• Raspberries

• Pineapple

• Cherries

• Almond butter granola bites

• GF brownie mix

• White chocolate chips

• Milk chocolate chips

• Skinny dipped almonds

• GF chocolate covered pretzels

• Cashews

• Chocolate covered pomegranate seeds

• Lindor Hazelnut chocolate

Much like a charcuterie board, you are able to make it exactly the way that you want to and there is absolutely no wrong way to put this together. In the end I added a couple of extra things like strawberries just to fill the rest of the board and that is totally okay because there are no rules. I’ve mentioned this before but its my favorite part! I absolutely love putting these posts together because it lets me be creative and then also share with friends what I have created!

ABC's Bachelorette Party: Large Charcuterie board

I can’t believe that we are well over halfway done with this season, its crazy! It is seriously time for Luke P to go home and I jokingly said that this charcuterie board is as large as Luke P’s ego! The idea behind this was that it was going to be red, white and blue but it really turned into red, white, blue and orange.. a little unavoidable. But it was so so good!

What you will need

• Brie wheel

• Pistachios

• Pepperoni

• Goat Cheese

• Colby Jack Cheese

• Blue Cheese

• Cheddar Cheese

• Hot Habenero Cheddar (warn your guests of the heat!)

• Fresh Mozzarella Balls

• Raspberries

• Blueberries

• Dried Cranberries

• Simple Mills GF Crackers

• Hershey’s Chocolate

I’ve definitely said this before, but the best thing about charcuterie boards is that you can do what you want and there aren’t any rules when it comes to what you have to do. If you missed it, you can read about my smaller charcuterie board here! You can tell in the video that I would put something down and then change my mind with how it was looking as I placed things! The freedom with these is so great. Side note, I know I have already made two but I’m sure this won’t be my last one! See the video below! As always, I have so much fun putting these together and I hope you enjoy!