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Holiday Recipes: Goat Cheese Ball With Pecans, Cherries, and Bacon


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Goat Cheese

Goat Cheese Ball With Pecans, Cherries, and Bacon
Chef Daniel Orr

1 pound soft goat cheese
Dried cherries (or cranberries), to taste
Pecans, roughly chopped, to taste
Pepper bacon, cut into little pieces, to taste
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
Rosemary leaves, to taste
Thyme leaves, to taste

1) Mix cherries, pecans, and bacon into the goat cheese by hand. Then add salt and pepper.

2) Shape the mixture so it looks like a very large softball.

3) Decorate the outside with rosemary and thyme leaves.

 

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