Easter Compassionate Charcuterie
I’m excited to share with you how you can recreate and make your own Compassionate Easter Charcuterie and Table Setting!
Timelapse video making Easter Charcuterie. Video is also on Instagram Here.
Video of details close up. Also on Instagram Here.
First I’ll give you all the food details and then I’ll link all the items you’ll need like the cheese board utensils, table decor, charcuterie board, candles etc.
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Let’s get started…
Here’s the grocery list for what’s on this Easter Compassionate Charcuterie :
(underlined are clickable links to shop straight from here. If you can’t find online, check your local health food stores. You can also find many of these items at Thrive Market at discounted prices and delivered straight to your door.)
(Note: all produce is organic.)
Carrots
Cucumber
Variety of olives with no additives (Lindsay is my favorite brand)
Radish
Miyokos cheese (mozzarella, pepper Jack block and sliced , cheddar slices, garlic herb wheel)
Unfortunately, miyokos is reformulating their PepperJack and Cheddar so I suggest adding extra wheels and their cheddar sticks cut into small cubes. You can find at your local health food store or on their website.
Also, Daiya BLOCKS cut and sliced are really yummy too. No the precut or sliced. The blocks. You can find those at your local health food store as well.
Miyokos Mozzarella rolled into balls with tomato and basil
Beyond Meat original sausage and meat balls (or Medical Medium’s black bean Meatballs)
Schar Gluten Free Baguettes , Sandwich Rolls or Ciabata Bread
Simple Mills crackers
Berries
Almonds, cashews, pepitas
Unreal chocolate covered peanuts
Small Pickles
Grapes
Fresh Herbs (Rosemary , Thyme and Dill)
Homemade guacamole (avocado, Pico de Gallo, lime and sea salt) recipe is here
Guten free pretzels (Quinn Is my favorite brand and they have all their pretzels discounted on Thrive)
Crofters Jam (raspberry and apricot) At Walmart for $12 or Thrive for under $6
Peanut butter (Thrive’s brand of organic peanut butter is the best! It’s just peanuts, no additives or sugar and they have it discounted at $3.79! Way cheaper than organic peanut butter in stores) if you buy in stores, make sure the only ingredient is peanuts.
Apples
Grapefruit and Orange
Melon
Organic Chocolate
Spring Flowers (I love Trader Joe’s for mine)
What’s on my table and what you need to re-create:
TIPS
Now that you know what to get, let me give you some tips. Firsty, when it comes to placing everything, I never know what I’m going to do, I just make it up as a go along. It’s like putting together a puzzle and it’s so much fun.
To make mozzarella balls, cut Miyokos mozzarella into cubes around the size you want the balls. Then start rolling them until they form into nice round and smooth balls. Place them in the bowl and sprinkle some Italian herbs on top.
Always place the big items in the corners so you can drape it off the board and table to create the elongated effected so you can’t tell where the board ends or begins.
i.e. the large carrots with the greenery, radishes and large bunch of grapes.
Place all the bowls and candles where you want them first and work around those. You can always change your mind once you start placing things. Having a rough draft of the layout with the bowls etc beforehand just gives you that head start.
When you are placing on the board, have a list of everything in front of you so you don’t forget anything and have to start over.
It’s nice to have a table down low so it’s easier to reach the whole board while seated.
Have everything out next to you while you place so you can gauge where you want it all to go and how much to put.
When it comes to items that dry out easily like bread and sausage, place those items last with only a small amount at a time keeping the remaining in a airtight container so you can add more as they start to go.
Cut and place the cheese right before so those don’t dry out or get too soft/hard.
Cut the cheese into shapes. You can cut out a little triangle from the second mozzarella wheel and then place that triangle somewhere else of the board, cut any block of cheese or wheel into a large triangle or slice into little squares. If you have bunny cookie cutters, you could use those too! Get creative.
Place the nuts and seeds last to fill in any small spaces and it’s okay to make it look messy. That’s the point. If you have a hand held candle, place some nuts, seeds and/or berries on the plate part so that gets filled up as well.
The goal is to make it as full as possible. So fill it all in. I love to places flowers last so I can fill in those extra gaps.
Cut an orange or cuties into circle slices and place one on top of a cheese wheel. I like to put it on the mozzarella wheels because the contrast between white and orange is beautiful to where another wheel like garlic herb has that texture you don’t really want to cover up. You can place a little sprig or Rosemary or thyme on top to get it a little more character, but you don’t want to cover the whole thing because it already has such beautiful colors.
To wrap up, I am so grateful you are here and I am so excited for you and your loved ones to enjoy this Gorgeous Compassionate spread for Easter!
Let me know if you have any questions. Please tag me on Instagram @misschelseadiane so I can see how it turns out!
With Love,
Chelsea Diane
