we're gonna have some fun and we have
our good friend and lifestyle expert Liz
bashang joining us great to see you yeah
and you always do such a beautiful job
entertaining and we're gonna be talking
about a charcuterie or charcuterie and
what is that it's a French word and it
means meat like deli meat smoked meats
and that kind of thing but what we're
gonna do is we're gonna create the char
cooter II and cheeseboard
okay my favorite thing if I'm at a party
that's where I'm going yes yes see
that's what this is it's appetizers
before a big meal or tailgating you
could have this at a tailgate before you
know why you're cooking all the grilled
things and all that mm-hmm and just
create your favorite cheese's your
favorite meats your favorite crackers
your favorite breads why is this a good
option for entertaining because it's
easy it's no baking it's no cooking
you're just going to the deli you're
picking up your meats and cheeses
sometimes they come prepackaged and you
know your fruit so it's really simple
right so the key to it to make it pretty
you have to have pretty presentation so
you have pretty little dishes and let's
talk about the board for a second
because I know that they sell them at
Pier one and some of these fancy places
and they're kind of expensive but you
need this one yours yes this is so funny
because we had an whoops bookcase and we
took it apart and so then I sanded the
front of the board with 220 grit
sandpaper okay because I took off the
varnish and did that several times and
wiped it clean and then I took this
conditioner it's a butcher block
conditioner and when you put it on there
and you take a rag and you rub it in and
you do four or five coats let it dry in
between coats and that's your board and
that's that way it's food safe its food
safe right because you don't want to
garnish on there and then put food there
that's exactly right that's bad so if
you make your own just make sure that
you sand it down yeah and then you use
something like that they say beeswax
mineral oil something like that oil
anything that does the treats wood
that's edible food great like you said
it was really important this seems like
it's it's so simple it typically doesn't
take you very long to put
together we'll see how fast it is yeah
yeah the hardest part because I'm such a
little particular nuts sometimes I don't
know but I just like presentation I like
it to look just a certain way the
hardest part is picking out what your
guests are going to like you know but so
you pick out what you kind of like too
because you may have leftovers and then
again you may not have leftovers okay so
we will build our charcuterie plate
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we are back in the daytime kitchen with
Lisbon Xiang she's a lifestyle expert
and she's gonna show us how to build a
charcuterie plate or board I mean you
can do anything from this size to what
you saw one that was like eight eight
feet long yes wedding or a shower yeah
whatever
yeah this fits perfectly in the back of
a Subaru I tried it out or feet long but
you can do charcuterie for two four six
whatever you so let's get into it what's
the first step we're gonna do is I'm
gonna plate the cheese so we're gonna do
I picked three different kinds of
cheeses and you want to and you want to
do that you want to pick a soft cheese
maybe a hard cheese and a medium texture
okay all right so no option yes so we're
gonna put the Brie
excuse my fingers but they're clean
we're gonna put that over here and they
look up with the blue cheese over here
on this side okay and then this I'm
going to take some fig balsamic vinegar
and just jazz it up a little bit and get
it started over here maybe come on and
then take it back and forth like that
that's really pretty so that way you
don't have the messy on your what kind
of cheese is that this is goat cheese
goat cheese and it's a neutral cheese
okay sometimes you have to play around
with it just to get it the way you want
it yeah okay thank you okay and then the
next thing I want to do I want to put
the meat because the meat will go in the
center now you could leave it on the
plate but you're not going to know it's
so bad or I know so a few girls want to
you can help me do it my fingers are
clean yes
so this is a little bit of salami and
what do we do we just we just put it
wherever we think it looks pretty yes
and it out and I folded this into little
cloverleaf looking things this is some
ham this is more of a kind of an
American Italian kind of dish I guess
this is the Italians do this they just
put out food they don't even ask if
you're hungry there's like I can do that
here so the next thing we're gonna do is
we're gonna put we're gonna do crackers
but I want to put the grapes on let's
put the grapes on because that's the
fruit and that's the added height that
we need so
if you girls want to grab some purple
grapes but when you say that you mean
we're trying to build these on different
levels we want different levels yes I
feel like the fresh fruit adds to the
moisture that you need like when you're
eating food yes I don't know where to
put this um
just stick them right over there they're
good and we'll put some over here we'll
just add that that way and I know you
just gonna have to play with it yeah you
have a good eye for this and some people
really do have a good eye sure and you
want to leave a little bit of room so
that you can put your crackers and
things so the crackers with blue cheese
we're gonna go with this kind of cracker
it's an oat and cranberry you want
something with a little bit of texture
because the blue cheese is so sharp so
are you trying to match your crackers
with your cheese yes okay and here with
the goat cheese and the brie we can use
the rosemary okay so where you're
putting those green grapes we're gonna
stack these we do only have about 30
seconds left okay so the other things
that we have is like nuts and dried
fruit yeah jams we also have spreads
because you want to add spreads to your
cheeses okay so you could put a piece of
blue cheese on this cracker bread and
then some fig jam or habanero dip you
can add dried apricots and you can just
kind of stick a sprinkle it wherever you
want it to go I love this oh thank you
so much and you have a great website I
do want to let our viewers know that but
they want more information or recipes
head on over to Liz's website Liz
Bhushan com