2y ago

I made a charcuterie board

Stealing from Weissman's board ideas, I made a gastrique with shallot and dried chiltepin for the cream cheese. The rest is all cheap and cheerful Lidl nibbles.

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Looks great!
Just FYI, this really isn't charcuterie though. Charcuterie is specifically about prepared meats. You can have other stuff on a charcuterie board, but normally just some things to compliment the meats.
On the other hand, so many people have been misusing the word for a while now that the definition is starting to accommodate arrangements like yours.
Yummy regardless of what it's called.
- Antipasto.
- There is some charcuterie on there, mostly random Italian stuff and a little kabanos. We're trying to be healthy though, so there's also some roast chicken breast. But turnabout's fair play, and I have a Wikipedia article too:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcuterie_board
  
  Yours has the same definition as mine, and even links to the same page, but then says:
  However, according to food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson, charcuterie also has its roots in the simple meals that had been eaten by laborers of the working class throughout Europe since the medieval period, often consisting of meats, cheeses, bread, local produce, and wine or beer.
  That's one I've never seen, and the citation is the opinion of a single person without reference. If you Google the definition, you're going to mostly find that it's prepared meats, with some places saying the definition has evolved to include other stuff.
Mmmm, ❤️ grazing boards.
- When you have a little food, you just need a little plate 🎶
Came here for the "ackshually, that's not charcuterie" comment, wasn't disappointed.
Subbed specifically because I'm waiting for the absolute meltdown* someone will eventually have over this, aka the Grilled Cheese VS Melt.
*pun intended
- Spare a thought for our friends, the English-speaking lingustic prescriptivists. Your $0.02 can help these poor souls who cry out for etymologically sound lexicons while speaking a language with multiple words that are their own antonyms.
When I talk about someone’s meat rose I’ve never thought about this.
While that looks absolutely fantastic, the worst thing in the world is biting in what you believe to be an olive and discovering it's a tomato in your mouth. Split your rounds.
- Same, but the other way around. I love tomatoes and hate olives.
- We got away with it. This was for Christmas.
I said it once and I'll say it again: we definitely need a charcuterie community for more delicious pictures like this one :)
I like the presentation. Looks very tasty. I have similar plates and associate special occations with them.
The grapes are dangerously close to the olives of similar color so it could become a mouth full of surprise.
- Biter beware
I wouldn't normally say this to anyone, but that pepperoni tulip is beautiful.
Charcuterie is to cooking as flower arranging is to gardening. Arranging food is different from applying heat and seasoning.
- It's called culinary arts, art is the study of choice, and I chose this selection with more care than some choose their words.
- What exactly is your point?
  
  Sorry if it was too subtle. That charcuterie doesn't belong here. The cheese is a sloppy pile of rectangles, the green thing (cucumber?) Is just a long arrayed veg without showing the flesh. The most galling thing is they made a pepperoni meat flower and then left the prosciutto as a crumple meat heap next to the flower. Like they tried for a moment and then said fuck it, I want up votes and praise instead of putting in the work.
  This charcuterie is like a bunch of unarranged flowers in a vase and it is hardly foodporn. It's poorly presented and a weak attempt at getting recognition but OP didn't do anything except chop. There is no showmanship on display. The only taste in the picture is what the food brings. In

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