{"id":1875703,"date":"2023-04-27T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=1875703"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:51:39","slug":"boarderie-charcuterie-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/boarderie-charcuterie-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarderie: This Charcuterie Board Delivery Service Is Our New Go-To for Entertaining"},"content":{"rendered":"In 2019, I took a class on cheese and charcuterie board assembly<\/a> with Marissa Mullen, the author of That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life<\/a><\/em>. I diligently folded salami and sliced cheese and arranged herbs, and I beamed at the beautiful board I'd created. I left the tutorial with grandiose visions of crafting similar ones again and again for friends and family alike.\r\n\r\nA few years later, and I've made one, maybe two. And this is the case for a number of reasons. Remarkable, jam-packed charcuterie and cheese boards are incredibly expensive to make, not to mention labor intensive. They also require a knowledge of cheese varieties and flavor pairing<\/a>s that I simply do not have.\r\n\r\nI resigned to the fact that fancy charcuterie boards just weren't going to happen for me at home. They would be a restaurant treat and a restaurant treat alone. Then, I heard about Boarderie<\/a>\u2014my snack-board saving grace.\r\n\r\n[SINGLE_AFFILIATE_PRODUCT superlative=\"We Tried It\" product_name=\"Boarderie Charcuterie Boards\" image=\"1911881\" pr_name=\"Boarderie\" pr_url=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=131817X1598243&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fboarderie.com%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DOnline%2520Tracking%2520Link%26utm_content%3D%26utm_medium%3Daffiliate%26utm_source%3Dimpact%26irclickid%3DWHOQDeWbtxyKUWZy-Lw1s1xaUks0FG0MvwF0zQ0%26utm_term%3D1269669%26irgwc%3D1\" pr_display_text=\"Shop on Boarderie\" \/]\r\n

What is Boarderie?<\/h2>\r\nA quarantine brainchild of two Florida-based caterers, Boarderie is a company that proudly produces and ships restaurant-quality charcuterie and cheese boards across the country. In the three short years since the company's inception in 2020, Boarderie has been featured as a product on Shark Tank<\/em><\/a> and selected as one of Oprah's Favorite Things.\r\n\r\nEach order includes free overnight shipping and arrives chilled. The reusable wooden boards are loaded with paper trays that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. And each tray is meticulously filled with an assortment of cheeses, nuts, candies, meats, spreads, olives and dried fruits that have already been sliced and arranged. Additionally, the shipment comes with boxes of crackers, bamboo cutlery and a diagram of the board's toppings.\r\n\r\nFinally, a product to fill the hole in my charcuterie board heart! Having a fully crafted and exquisite board sent to my home was much easier than blindly picking out ingredients and trying to assemble them in a way that would impress my guests. I chose the impressive Classic Board<\/a>, which feeds 9-10 people, and invited a lucky group of friends over.\r\n

Boarderie Options<\/h2>\r\nI'm not exaggerating when I say there's a Boarderie board for every occasion. The site is full of different flavor combos and pairings, ensuring you can find charcuterie to fit any gathering. Celebrating a birthday? Try the Birthday Boarderie<\/a>, complete with a cheese cutout in the recipient's age. Need a gift for someone going through a hard time<\/a>? The Sympathy Boarderie<\/a> includes plenty of eats for when they don't feel like cooking an entire meal and<\/em> heartfelt details like a dove cutout. You can even find a Lover's Boarderie<\/a>, which is perfect for anniversary or engagement<\/a> celebrations, complete with the happy couple's initials. We'll toast to that!\r\n\r\nBeyond evergreen occasions, Boarderie also offers a ton of holiday boards<\/a>, depending on the season. Right now, we're smitten with the Valentine's Cheese and Charcuterie Board<\/a>, which is topped with cutesy white cheddar-shaped hearts and X's and O's. And for any cold-weather occasion, don't sleep on the Baked Brie Boarderie<\/a>! Who wouldn't want to slice into warm, ooey-gooey pastry-wrapped brie in flavors like truffle, fig and orange or rosemary, sun-dried tomato and olive.\r\n

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Assembly<\/h3>\r\nTo assemble the board\u2014if you can even call it assembling, all I had to do was simply unwrap the individual trays and re-situate them on the serving board. This compartmentalization of the board's toppings made it easy to set up and made it clear which accouterments were to be paired together.\r\n\r\nI'll spare you a list of all 35\u2014yes, 35!\u2014ingredients on my Arte board and just hit the highlights. My friends' and my favorites were BellaVitano espresso cheese, blueberry-vanilla goat cheese, Peppadew pepper white cheddar cheese, salami picante, everything-seasoning cashews and candied pecans. Is your mouth watering yet? And each board, big and small, boasts a similarly masterful assortment of hand-selected artisan munchies.\r\n

Overall Impressions<\/h3>\r\nI'm a known charcuterie fanatic, so it wouldn't take a lot for me to love this board. And yet, it offered a lot anyway.\r\n\r\nThe simple setup is enough to splurge on the board. Although some items, such as the rosemary and pepperoncini, needed a bit of zhuzhing after being unwrapped, it took me less than 10 minutes to take the board from plastic-wrapped to ready-to-serve. And it's not as though the board was just passable; it was downright stunning. All the boards available on the Boarderie website are a gorgeous amalgamation of textures and colors that excite various senses.\r\n\r\nThe Arte board was aromatic and easy on the eyes, sure, but it needed to deliver on taste, too. And that it did. The contents were obviously high quality. Also, they were novel enough to make the board really stand out from those you would find at a market. I can't say I'd ever had wasabi-horseradish cheddar, rose goat cheese or dried strawberries. And I won't soon forget these delicacies.\r\n\r\nAlthough the price tag is high, an individual certainly couldn't craft a board with as much quality and variety\u2014and with as little food waste\u2014for cheaper. So if you have an upcoming special occasion that calls for a charcuterie gift basket<\/a> or you're looking for a memorable cheese gift<\/a>, consider a Boarderie board.\r\n\r\nAnd speaking of occasions on which to eat one of these masterpieces... I'd recommend an intimate happy hour or a small dinner party. My favorite part of the Boarderie board was the experiential aspect. A few friends and I had a lovely time huddling around the board, trying each item, discussing the flavors, swapping opinions and sipping wine intermittently. It was such fun to consume the board with as much intention as it was created.\r\n

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