Picnics are excellent for spring and summer season! This picnic charcuterie board is an effective way to take a date outdoors, whether or not you’re picnicking in your yard or on a hike.
When I used to be younger my household and I usually had what we’d name a “French picnic” for lunch or dinner.
The unfold included a mixture of meats and cheese, recent fruit, and bread or crackers.
AKA – all of the elements we love in a charcuterie board that make such nice picnic meals.
I discovered a lot about cheese boards from my Plenty collaboration after we created the Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board.
In that submit you’ll be taught what to incorporate in a cheese board, the way to slice and organize charcuterie, which order to assemble the elements, and the way to add ending touches to make it look bountiful and delightful.
While an artfully designed cheese board is great for a house get together, taking one on-the-go isn’t precisely simple!
Slight shifts in journey can imply fruit and nuts spilling off the perimeters, and packing crackers in with the recent meals can go away them soggy.
Enter the picnic charcuterie board!
Arranged inside a glass container, the meats and cheese board is completely packed for journey.
With your crackers on the facet, you’ll be able to put each containers facet by facet and never fear about sogginess or shifting.
Lids make each the transport there and leftovers again simple.
Here are some transportable board concepts!
Charcuterie Board Basics
Here are some must-haves and widespread choices to incorporate in any easy charcuterie board:
- A tough cubed cheese
- A gentle cheese like goat cheese or brie
- A sliced cheese like manchego
- 1-3 sorts of meat
- A handful of nuts – almonds, peanuts, cashews, blended
- Fruit of every kind – grapes, sliced apples or pears, berries, dried fruit
- Crackers – plain, gluten free, breadstick type
- Herbs or garnishes
- Bonus: one thing candy! I like a superb chocolate-covered almond 😉
What You Need To Make A Picnic Charcuterie Board
Two glass containers
One for the primary elements and one for the crackers. Large rectangular glass containers like these with bamboo lids are each sensible and fairly.
3 sorts of cheese
Plan your cheese relying on what number of servings you want. I at all times suppose having 3 varieties is essentially the most enjoyable (if that is just too a lot cheese, save half of every block in your fridge).
Think about having a cubed cheese (like aged cheddar or pepperjack), a sliced cheese (like manchego or gouda), and a gentle cheese (like brie or goat).
2-3 sorts of meat
The trio of Spanish meats we used for the Thanksgiving board is a perfect combine.
But you may as well use pepperoni and prosciutto.
Use completely different rolling and folding strategies to differ your meat’s look.
2 sorts of fruit, recent and dried
Apple slices, berries, and grapes make nice recent selections.
Dried oranges, cherries, and apricots are good dried fruit choices.
Cherry tomatoes or child carrots make excellent bites within the veg class.
2 sorts of nuts
Marcona almonds, smoked almonds, cashews, spiced pecans, pistachios – all good choices!
Store purchased candied nuts are a simple shortcut.
Fresh herbs and a few preserves in your gentle cheese
These are non-compulsory however clearly take the presentation and flavors to the subsequent degree!
A mixture of crackers
The selection is yours, however having not less than 3 sorts of crackers will present a range.
Like the cheeses, because you gained’t want all of them, go away the remaining at house.
Cloth napkins, a cheese knife + cans of wine
Obviously! Canned wine – or nonalcoholic canned wine – is the final word transportable resolution.
How to create a picnic charcuterie board
Just like together with your huge board, you’ll wish to begin with the cheeses as anchors.
Come in subsequent with meat then fruit.
Save the smallest areas for the smallest elements – the nuts, dried fruit, and herbs.
Since the crackers are on the facet, you’ll skip that meeting step and organize them in fairly rows within the companion container.
Alternatively you should utilize a mixture of recent breads and crackers.
Charcuterie Board Picnic Accessories
All you actually need is a blanket, however if you wish to picnic in type, improve with these fabulous equipment!
- Cute bento packing containers with dividers
- This picnic backpack is sensible and so cute!! It even comes with a blanket holder.
- This stylish tote can also be a cooler!
- Or go along with a traditional wicker basket with a zipper up cooler bag inside
- A collapsible desk – Table in a Bag is a good model (what a good suggestion!)
- An excellent cooler bag – Yeti makes our favorites
- Foldable rocking chairs – we have now two of these and they’re fabulous!
- An further massive picnic blanket for the youngsters
- An excellent hat – in fact – and sunscreen
- Yard video games – at all times a superb picnic concept!
- Champagne or a full bottle of wine – for the romantic picnic 😉
More Charcuterie Boards:
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- Kids Charcuterie Board
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- Christmas Charcuterie Board