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Zesty Marinated Goat Cheese: Easy Appetizers

Easy Appetizer: Marinated Goat Cheese...


Creating homemade gifts are not a new thing; just ask all the people with enough sugary sweets to fuel a rocket. However, making savory homemade gifts in a snazzy jar with your own personal handmade card, now that is a gift worth someone bragging about.
Marinated goat cheese has a variety of fun flavorful uses; other than sticking your hands in the jar and eating the incredible tangy cheese all by itself. Salads scream for it; cheese plates praise for it, and buttery cracker need more of this recipe for marinated goat cheese.
It has the perfect combination of high quality extra virgin olive oil, spicy tones, fresh citrus zest, and fresh herbs along with sea salt and fresh cracked pepper.  It will need to hang out at your home for four hours before showcasing its originality; but it will need to be consumed at least within 2 weeks after being jarred.
There some really cute clasp canning jars that are perfect for this project; they come in 4 ounces and up. For this project, 4 ounce jars are perfect; the recipe will create 12 yummy marinated jars of tangy goat cheese goodness.
Add an embossed card and fancy ribbon to ensure you beat out the cookies on a paper plate wrapped in colored plastic wrap. Perhaps this was you last year; but that is all in the past.
Recipe for marinated goat cheese
Be sure to purchase plain goat cheese when buying the logs, each log is the perfect amount for the jars.
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 20 minutes ~ Marinating time: 4 hours ~ Ready in: Approximately 4 ½ hours.
What you will need;
·         12 (2 ounce) canning jars with a clasp lid
·         Embossed cards for labels
·         Twine for cards
·         12 (2 ounce) logs of plain goat cheese
·         2 ½ cups of high quality extra virgin olive oil
·         4 ounce container fresh rosemary
·         2 Tablespoons red chili flakes
·         Zest of 2 oranges
·         Zest of 2 lemons
·         8 garlic cloves, finely minced
·         1 Tablespoon herbs de Province
·         Sea salt
·         Fresh cracked black pepper
Directions:
1.)   In a large mixing bowl, whisk the olive oil, red chili flakes, zest of both citrus, garlic, and dried herbs.  Lightly season the mixture with salt and pepper.  Pour about 1 inch in each jar; set aside.
2.)   Using a hot knife, slice each log into 4 equal pieces, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, roll the slices into balls, and place 4 balls in each jar. Divide the rosemary sprigs evenly among the jars, and fill each jar with the oil mixture.
3.)   Tightly close the jars, secure the cards with the twine, and place in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
Be sure to put an “eat by date” on the jars for your gift recipients; and don’t act too surprise to see your gift on display at the next dinner party....

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