Last week I was browsing on-line cheese. I saw an entry for cheese leaves, a suggested add-on to my order for just $5.
“That would be great!” I thought,”Cheese leaves! How cute.” I could just envision them. Very thin slices of dark yellow-orange cheddar cheese cut into leaf shapes. Perhaps some would have veins of blue or green mold running through them. “I wonder if they have to freeze the cheese so they can slice it thin enough to look like a real leaf.”
I bought it without clicking the description. Of course, parchment leaves arrived today.
You’ve seen them in catalogs.
It’s a plate decoration.
The sad thing is I have seen the plate decoration. Yet still I had imagined what My Fancy Thin-Sliced Cheese Leaves would look like on a plate with some of those decorative paper leaves they sell in catalogs. What are they called? Those holiday leaf decorations? The ones that look like leaves that they decorate cheese plates with in France?
Oh, but then I thought, “That’s silly. I’m sure Gary and I will just eat the cheese leaves without putting them on a tray.” Then I pictured the delight on Gary’s face when he first would see a cheese leaf, gaze in wonder at its workmanship, then stuff it in his mouth.
So … re-gifting that then.
6 responses to “Leaves of Cheese”
I spent several years as a nanny, and there is no food that is not made 1000x times cooler when cut into shapes. I still have a wide range of cookie cutters I used more for sandwiches than I ever did for cookies. This also reminds me of using one of my dad’s shot glasses to make little round liverwurst sandwiches. That might be revealing a bit too much about my childhood now that I think about it…
I totally couldn’t find them in my local stores when I wanted them for my cheese plate last Thursday! Argh!!!
I would not have guessed these were called cheese leaves. Maybe decorative paper leaves or plate decorations – leaf….
I’m sorry for your troubles.
What kind of cheese did you think the red one was?
Elisabeth – Oh, no, I briefly wanted to be a playboy bunny at 8 because of my Dad’s glassware. We must have had similar childhoods.Tami – I’ve never seen them in kitchen stores. What about a gourmet food store?Amy_in_StL – Yeah! Thank you. I don’t think Martha Stewart calls them Cheese Leaves.Hattie – My life is hard. Becs – I didn’t actually SEE the photo, just the words “Recommended for you: Cheese Leaves.”