Girl With A Glass

I love goat cheese! I’m a big supporter of local goats, however, if you can’t get local goat cheese, you might want to try Ile de France.  This cheese is creamy and easy-to-find at your local grocery store. They have lots of great recipes on their web site.  Here’s a recipe that I changed up to make it more colorful.

Endive Spears Stuffed with Herbed Goat Cheese

• 16-18 endive spears, washed and separated
• 2-4 ozs of goat cheese (depending on the size of the lettuce leaves)
• 1-3 tbls of cream
• 1 small ripe chopped tomato (seeds removed)
• handful of pine nuts
• 3 tbls of chopped fresh oregano, basil and parsley
• salt and pepper

Add the cream to the goat cheese and cream in a bowl.  You just want the cheese to be spreadable.  I found Il de France to be quite fresh and it really didn’t need a lot of cream.

Fill each endive spear about half-way.  Add chopped tomatoes to each endive and using your finger, poke the pine nuts around the tomatoes.

Arrange the spears on a decorative plate and sprinkle the herbs over the spears.  Add a little shake of salt and fresh ground pepper.

I brought this appetizer to my Bad Girls Book Club with a bottle of Albarei Albarino.

(Picture courtesy of Ildefrancecheese.com, with my recipe, your herbs will be scattered over the top making it more colorful.)