Super Bowl cheese plates
I typically plan my Super Bowl party theme around the
location of the big game, or hometown of one of the teams. For example, New Orleans was of course Mardi Gras (hurricanes & beads), Detroit was BYOForty, and Houston was chili. Here are some regional picks for this year's teams and locale:
- New York:
Coach Farms aged green peppercorn goat. A fresh, flavorful cheese that will hold its own on your
snack buffet. (And yes, it's that Coach.)
- New England: Berkshire
Blue, of course.
- Southwest: It’s not quite Arizona,
but Colorado’s
Haystack Mountain Queso de Mano is a firm, earthy raw-milk goat cheese.
Big-bodied, flavorful cheeses are the best companions to your typical football fare. A garlic gouda, chipotle cheddar or other herbed cheese are good choices. One fun cheese to spice up a deli sandwich board is Leyden – a Dutch cow’s milk cheese studded with caraway seeds and cumin.
And you can never go wrong with a beer cheese. Guinness cheddar is rich and slightly sweet from the healthy dose of stout. Cheers!
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