I made this for a women’s tea at my church and it was quite popular. It was also the easiest item on the menu. You can throw it together at the last minute and still get rave reviews.
Goat Cheese Spread
This is one of those kitchen-sink recipes, more of a procedure than a set of ingredients and directions.
Instructions
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I had a double package of mild soft goat cheese from Costco that I had bought for something else and then didn't use, so I wanted to have it for the tea. Chopped roasted red peppers seemed like a good thing to put in, so I did that. I have directions for those in a recent post, so I'm not including them here. I also chopped up a couple of shallots. And I decided to throw in a package of cream cheese to make it more spreadable, but that probably wasn't necessary. You could put in all sorts of things that you like: chopped black olives, capers, scallions, pickled cherry peppers, etc. People really liked the goat cheese--it was just enough different from plain cream cheese to be a real winner.
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I was going to make toasts out of thin slices of baguette, but that didn't happen. I just served it with crackers. If you thinned it out with some sour cream you could also use it as a veggie dip. It would have been much prettier and more elegant if I had done the toasts, spread the cheese on them, and then put a slice of red pepper on each. But then I would have had the DREADED PROBLEM OF LEFTOVERS. You can't save stuff like that, as the bread or the cracker, whatever you use, will only sit so long before getting soggy. So just let people spread their own, and relax!
