Taleggio Cheese Crostini

If you fancy a selection of nibbles but don’t want too much work try this nifty trio of Taleggio cheese crostini. Each has a different topping piled onto the taleggio to ring the changes. Simple, clever, tasty and sassy – all on one tray.

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It’s been a tough week. The cold temperatures have lead to a surprise case of asthma-related issues for me and aggravated my niggling back. I am trying hard not to be one big grouch to my family, especially as the forecast is for worse later this week. What I need is a good dose of TLC, involving warm baths, woolly scarves, nourishing food and some comfort dishes. Top of the list for comfort eating with me are cheese and hot chocolate. Preferably both, but not together, that would just be dis-respectful to both food groups and um, leave a weird taste in my mouth. Today I’m going with the cheese.

I like Taleggio. It’s the semi-soft texture. It’s the gentle, but fruity flavour. And the rind – with just a hint of chalkiness to it. If I’m being completely honest, I should get a t-shirt that reads: I ♥ Taleggio.

Since my family like variety, I decided to get creative and make a selection of Taleggio cheese crostini:

• Crispy prosciutto and basil. Great.
• Apple slices and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Fantastic.
• Roasted grapes and a grating of nutmeg. TLC my way.

I made these last weekend when we were all a bit hungry, having just come in from some place chilly. The kids kept popping through to check when I would be done… ‘How much longer Mummy, I’m staaarrrvvving?’ In the end they helped out in the photography stage holding reflectors in place to speed me up and look, they even got a cameo hand role in the pictures at the end when I let them just take their pick of the cheese crostini straight off the set.

Off topic, I’ve just passed my third month of blogging, so wanted to share with you what I think so far and confess something – you know by now I like my confessions. Ready?

The very first post to appear on here, Ricotta & Almond Pancakes, was just me contemplating blogging.  It was a new idea that had occurred to me the week before and I was having a huge debate with myself about whether I could manage to create, write and photograph recipes regularly, in a fun way, that people would enjoy. Confidence has never been my strong point. It was just an idea. An idea that was a little scary. So I thought I’d prepare some posts between October and January, see what I thought and then decide if blogging was for me. So that first post was just me playing about, I didn’t expect anybody to see it. I hit ‘publish’ just to see what it would look like ‘live’. I’d told nobody about it. I’d expected it to be seen by my eyes only. Five minutes later…

I got a follower.

I couldn’t believe it. I actually had a follower. I was shocked. I also realised that I couldn’t disappoint that 1 follower and not post anything else. I didn’t know much, but I knew that would have been bad blogger manners. That was the encouragement I needed, I had become a signed-up blogger.

Fortunately, as I was testing myself, I wanted to do things properly – I had approached the recipe, the photo-shoot and the writing like it was for real – the recipe is a good one and I still wish I’d tried the grits.

Three months worth of blogging later, I have realised that I can create plenty of recipes – you should see my list of things I have in the queue. I’ve surprised friends who knew I liked to photograph food and create recipes but hadn’t realised I was remotely interested in writing about food. I’ve also learned a lot whilst preparing my posts to try to make them informative, fun and occasionally educational. Thanks first follower – I owe you one.

More easy sharing food to try

Have you made these Taleggio cheese crostini? Please let me know what you thought of them. Did you have a favourite?

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