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Don’t you love all the gorgeous charcuterie boards on Pinterest?  Some of them are so beautiful and creative.

When the perfect opportunity to put a charcuterie board together came, I jumped at the chance. Making the board seemed more like art than it did food.

To start the board I decided to use a large white cutting board that I already owned. The large fancy wooden ones are pretty but I prefer the plastic ones because I like to put everything in the dishwasher rather than hand wash.

Since I had a white cutting board, I decided to go with white bowls so that the bowls and board wouldn’t be the focus.  I wanted the food to be in focus rather than the structure.

I didn’t own too many white bowls so I decided to go to thrift stores and see what I could find. I ended up with two pretty vintage milk glass containers that probably held centerpiece flowers or something at one time. One milk glass was a white top hat and the other a square bowl on a pedestal. The other white bowls I had previously purchased.

After I started assembling everything I realized that I had way more food than the board. Thankfully I had a second board.

On the board I placed:

Crackers:

• Rice Crackers
• Bread Sticks
• Wheat Crackers

Fruit:

• Honey Crisp Apple slices soaked in Lemon Juice
• Orange slices

Fats:

• Green Olives

Cheese:

• Baked Brie drizzled with honey
• Pepper Jack cheese
• White Cheddar cheese

Nuts:

• Pistachios
• Pecans
• Dark chocolate-covered almonds with sea salt

Meat:

• Peppered salami
• Salami
• Turkey lunchmeat

The turkey, dark chocolate cover almonds, and honey crisp apples seemed to be the biggest hit with our guests.

Have you tried making a charcuterie board yet?