Wine and Cheese

A perennial favorite of ours. Actually I should title this salami and cheese, the wine is optional. Sometimes a heavy meal is not in the cards or at 10pm, slaving in the kitchen isn’t either, so that’s when the snack platter comes into play. We have this for breakfast on the weekend or at least once a week for dinner (lately we’ve had this a lot for dinner since we’ve been moving). There is no rule for what should be served. If you are putting this together, serve whatever sounds good, whatever is your favorite, or simply whatever is in the fridge. I’ve had plenty of last scrap platters too.

I pretty much always (yes always) have salami in the fridge, as well as some kind of cheese. These are staples in our household. In addition, we’ll add cherry tomatoes, grapes, cucumbers or olives, again, whatever is on hand. A fresh baguette is nice but not always available so any kind of bread will do. If you run out of bread, as we often do, crackers or large salad leaves will do the trick too. And sometimes we just darn forgot to go to the grocery store, so we don’t have any canvas to use for the salami and cheese. Then we just munch without the bread.

The wine as I’ve said is optional. I’m not a wine connoisseur so I won’t pretend to tell you that a particular wine goes well with the munchies. I guess it depends on what cheese you are eating and what sides.

My husband usually buys a Pinot Noir or Shiraz. I am not a fan of heartburn-inducing red wine so I usually skip it. If I have a bottle of Eiswein or some other white dessert wine on hand, I’ll imbibe then. Regardless, the drinks are entirely up to you. Want water or orange juice, that works too since this is basically a picnic and anything goes. Try it out, eat at home Euro-style.

Breakfast

Dinner