Blue Cheese Grapes Recipes

Steps:

• Line a small baking sheet or baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a food processor, blend together the cream cheese, blue cheese, and heavy cream until smooth. Transfer to a medium bowl. Add the grapes and stir until coated with the cheese mixture.
• In another small bowl, mix together the walnuts, sugar, and parsley.
• Using a fork, transfer the grapes, one at a time, to the walnut mixture and, using clean hands, gently roll in the mixture until coated. Place the grapes on the prepared baking sheet. Refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours and serve.
• Cook's Note: To toast the walnuts, arrange in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 6 to 8 minutes until lightly toasted. Cool completely before using.

Steps:

• Combine cream cheese, milk and blue cheese in a medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth and creamy.
• Cover each grape with approximately 1 teaspoon of the cream cheese mixture.
• Combine walnuts and parsley in a small bowl. Coat grapes with walnut mixture.
• Line a plate or tray with waxed paper.
• Arrange the coated grapes on a prepared plate.
• Chill, covered for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Blend the blue cheese and the sour cream and place in a shallow bowl (if the blue cheese is either too thin or dry to stick to grapes, adjust sour cream and cheese amounts accordingly). In a mini-chop or food processor, coarsely chop nuts. Place nuts in a separate shallow bowl. Roll grapes in blue cheese mixture, then roll grapes in nuts. Serve with toothpicks.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Place nuts, each kind separate, on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, stirring once or twice, 8-10 minutes until lightly toasted. Let cool.
• In a food processor, pulse one kind of nut at a time, until just finely chopped (don't overprocess). Place in separate bowls.
• Remove blade; wipe processor bowl clean. Add cheeses; process until blended and smooth. Scrape into a medium bowl.
• Line rimmed baking sheet with wax paper. Gently fold grapes into cheese mixture. Remove 1 coated grape at a time with a spoon, then push grape gently into one of the bowls of chopped nuts. Shake bowl to turn grape until coated. Place on lined baking sheet.
• To serve: Arrange grapes on a leaf-lined plate to resemble a bunch of grapes.

Steps:

• First, caramelise the nuts. Heat the butter and sugar in a small frying pan, then stir in the nuts. Cook over a low heat for about 5 mins until the nuts are crisp and coated in the sugary butter. Tip onto an oiled baking sheet, leave to cool slightly, then roughly chop. Whisk together the vinegar and olive oil until well blended, then stir through a little salt and pepper to taste.
• To serve, tear the leaves off the chicory and put into a bowl with the rocket. Slice the grapes in half, remove the seeds, then add to the bowl with most of the dressing. Gently toss everything together until the leaves are coated, then arrange on 4 serving plates. Crumble over the cheese and top with a scattering of nuts. Drizzle with the remaining dressing to serve.

Steps:

• For the steak:.
• In a small bowl, mix together the Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, mustard, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, garlic and shallots. Gradually whisk in 1/4 cup vegetable oil until emulsified. Place the steak in a plastic zip-top bag. Pour the marinade over the steak and seal the bag. Marinate for at least 1 hour at room temperature or refrigerate overnight. Allow the steak to come to room temperature before cooking.
• When ready to cook, preheat the broiler and set the oven rack at the highest point, as close to the flame as it can get and still fit the steak below. Fit a wire rack onto a baking sheet.
• Place the marinated steak on the prepared baking sheet (or a broiler pan), sprinkle with salt and pepper and place it under the broiler. Cook for 3 minutes on the first side. Flip and cook for another 3 minutes for medium-rare. Remove from the oven and allow to rest 10 minutes. Slice thin strips of steak against the grain.
• For the vinaigrette:.
• While the steak is resting, in a small mixing bowl, make the vinaigrette. Combine the vinegar, shallots, mustard and garlic and whisk in the oil. Season with salt and pepper.
• For the salad:.
• Preheat a cast-iron grill pan over medium-high heat. Place the grape bunches on the grill to char, just until blistered, 3 to 4 minutes.
• In a large bowl, add the greens and lightly dress the salad with the vinaigrette. Toss to combine.
• For serving, pile the salad onto a plate and top with crumbled blue cheese and toasted pecans. Surround the salad with the sliced steak and grilled grapes.

Steps:

• Mash the cream and bleu cheese in a bowl until they are combined well.
• Add the port.
• Mix until all ingredients are very well combined.
• Chill the cheese mixture for about an hour or two.
• Using a regular spoon, scoop some cheese into the bowl of the spoon and using a grape, scrape the cheese out of the spoon.
• Press the cheese around the grape and roll in your hands to completely cover it well.
• Roll the cheese-covered grape in the ground nuts.
• Continue with remaining grapes.
• Chill until ready to serve.
• Note: if you have leftover cheese, you can mix it with a few chopped nuts and some chopped grapes to make a delicious spread, too.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. On a sheet pan toast walnuts 7-9 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• With mixer cream blue cheese and cream cheese.
• Roll 1 tbsp cheese mixture over each grape to evenly coat. Cover and chill 15 minutes.
• Roll grapes in walnuts to coat. Chill 30 minutes.
• Using a sharp knife cut grapes in halves and serve.
• **Cooking time includes toasting walnuts and chill time for grapes.**.

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Toast pecans in a shallow baking pan until fragrant and a shade darker, about 10 minutes. Toss hot pecans in pan with butter and salt, then cool.
• Coarsely chop nuts, then toss together with cheese in a bowl, without mashing.
• Top each cracker with a mounded teaspoon of cheese mixture, pressing together slightly, then top with a parsley leaf and a grape half, gently pressing them into cheese.