Spanish Cheese Trays and Cold Tapas by Ruth Paget
A quickly put together Spanish cheese tray and made-ahead cold tapas, hors d’oeuvres, can be light lunches at the office or at home for home workers.
My suggestions for a Spanish cheese tray include:
-wedges of Manchego cheese
-wedges of P’tit Basque cheese
-green olives
-almonds
-membrillo (quince paste that goes well with Manchego cheese)
-onion confit (author Penelope Casas has a recipe for this in her excellent cookbook Tapas) -thin slices of French bread
-rolled Serrano ham
-pickled onions
-2 or 3 cold tapas from the following list (The recipes are in my go-to reference – Tapas by Penelope Casas.)
-sweet red pepper salad
-green pepper and tomato salad
-cumin-flavored mushroom salad
-cabbage, green pepper, and raisin salad (includes carrots)
-marinated asparagus wrapped in ham
Preparing all or some of your meal ingredients ahead of time allows you to have more time to enjoy your meal or check personal e-mail.
Buen Provecho!
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
