Goat Cheese with Sundried Tomatoes Appetizer

Crumbled Goat Cheese

Sundried Tomatoes

Toasted Walnuts

Basil

Roasted Garlic

Extra Virgin Olive oil

Salt and Pepper to taste

Toasted Baguettes or Melba Toast

If you've never toasted walnuts before, it's not that difficult -- just heat up a pan to a medium heat, and throw the chopped walnuts in there, tossing them often for about five to seven minutes. The heat will wake up the oils and flavor in the nuts, adding a toasted taste to the appetizer. Just try not to burn them!

Coarsely chop the basil, mash the roasted garlic, drizzle in the oil (not too much) and combine gently with rest of ingredients in serving bowl. Don't stir too hard because it'll look really nasty if you overly mix it. Goat cheese is soft and can turn into a mushy mess. You can get pre-crumbled goat cheese, but I've noticed that stuff tastes a little less flavorful than a regular whole block from the grocery, so just keep that in mind. The pre-crumbled cheese also comes caked with cellulose, which doesn't impart a flavor to the cheese, but adds a strange dusty texture to the outside of it.

Use your own discretion for ratios, but keep the walnuts, cheese, and tomatoes pretty even.

This appetizer actually tastes best at room temperature. All the flavors marry and get stronger once they've been sitting together for a while. I hope that doesn't sound gross.

Serve with Melba Toast, crackers (I like black pepper crackers) or baguettes or whatever the fuck you want.

This stuff is absolutely delicious. Unless you hate goat cheese, basil, olive oil, baguettes, sundried tomatoes...you get the picture. If you hate any of the ingredients listed above you're a picky bitch and I hate you, you dirty assbag. Just kidding. Well. 

Just a warning, by the way, your breath might smell a little moldy after you eat some of this stuff, but hell, if whoever you're talking to ate some of this goat cheese stuff too, you're good to go. Flirt away! Bravo!