Your secret weapon will be a cheese board. Before you conjure images of your mother's sliced cheddar cheese on a simple plate—think again. What we're going to show you is nothing like that!

When putting together the ultimate cheese board, the cheese is, of course, super important, but you may actually want to ...

and a cheese spread. For this board, I deviated from that just slightly using Caso Bolo Mellage cheese from Carr Valley, which is a softer cheese, but not as soft as brie. For a hard cheese ...