After long school days, there are many evenings that I hardly want to walk into the kitchen and prepare an elaborate meal. Neither do I want to pick up my phone and order for a takeaway nor a Pizza delivery. All that I do is laser eye scanning inside my fridge, store cupboards, canned food stock ( very rare) if any and quickly plan up for the meal. It could be like a Hummus Sandwich, Vegetable Sandwich, Toastie Sandwich, a pasta stir fry, paratha’s or anything .. but something really quick with all the available ingredients just at home.
All that you need to do is to simply dive into your fridge and pantry cabinets to pull together a meal with whatever essentials is available to compliment with cheese and the left over works well . Castello sent me a guide along with a selection of cheese to try my hands on smorging.
CASTELLO’S How to Smorg Guide ?
- Grab a selection of bases such as crusty bread, slices of rye bread, crisp breads, crackers, or toast. Plan the rest of your ingredients, or root around and see what you can find to make up your board!
- Try to find a range of tastes to include: salty, sweet, sour, and umami (a savoury taste). And try to include a range of textures too so that there is a balance between crunchy and soft. It is the combinations of tastes and textures that make each and every Smorging session unique!
- Choose your favourite Castello cheeses and get them out of the fridge, along with some butter, to warm up for 30 minutes.
- Present your selection on some kind of platter – a wooden or slate board is perfect, or even just a large plate. Most importantly, remember, you can’t go wrong!
- Have fun with it and make the best of what you’ve got. Don’t be afraid about trying out new combinations and see what happens!
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Dolphia Nandi-Arnstein says
Sometimes, simple foods are the best! Isn't?Love your photographs! 🙂
Remya Elizabeth Anish says
New ideas of pairing …… n great great great food styling n photography…. 🙂
ambica selvam says
Beautiful and simple comfort food of a different kind! Absolutely love cheese…and your post is so beautifully done. The photos are so tempting … I'm going cheese shopping today! See what your post did to me 😛
Shubha A says
Lovely clicks Sandhya..beautiful, simple yet so comforting food:)
JttPHZAx says
Thanks soo much Dolphia.. Simple food sometimes are absolutely comforting !! It's the effort and the pure enjoyment that adds on too.
JttPHZAx says
Remya .. You are just too humble !! Love you 🙂 for this
JttPHZAx says
Yeah!! Say cheese Ambica:) thanks soo much dear. Would love to see your take on it .
JttPHZAx says
Thanks ShubhA.. It's just bringing together the right ingredients in right combo..