Trader Joe’s Holiday Cheese Blintzes Board
For breakfast or brunch, serve a Trader Joe’s Holiday Cheese Blintzes Board! Delicious cheese blintzes with Italian strawberries, sausage, and treats!
Want to make the season count this year? I say spend less time focused on décor or appearances, and focus more on the people around you. Which is why I love creating different ideas of “boards” for easy entertaining, like this Trader Joe’s Holiday Cheese Blintzes Board.
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Trader Joe’s Holiday Cheese Blintzes Board
I’ve seen the cheese blintzes in the freezer section at our local Trader Joe’s, but I never really knew what they were.
What are Cheese Blintzes?
Cheese Blintzes are in the freezer section at your local Trader Joe’s. Blintzes are a type of Russian pancake or a crepe, that are very thin. Trader Joe’s blintzes are filled with a sweet cheese, and they are delicious for the holidays, served with gourmet Italian Strawberries!
You can also make blintzes filled with potatoes, meat, or different flavors of jam.
Our house is not decorated for Christmas yet, because we are going back and forth, working on our fixer upper!
But … in the meantime, I’ve got plenty of holiday recipes to share. I’m so glad the season still means the world to me, even if my home is not all decked out. I think some of our traditions are not going to happen this year, but that is okay!
Hopefully we’ll be in soon, even if unfinished, and get a tree … stay tuned! And hopefully you are following me on Instagram! It’s been fun … I’ve been asking my followers questions like … should we wrap the beam in the master bedroom? I love all the feedback!
How to make a Blintzes Board
For this board, you can pop into Trader Joe’s and gather up your supplies!
You’ll find Trader Joe’s Cheese Blintzes, in the freezer section.
Then grab some Adele’s Chicken Sausage, a loaf of Orange Cake, and Streusel Bread Baka.
Oh my gosh Friends, have you tried these gourmet Italian Strawberries? They come in a beautiful white and red jar, marked “gourmet.”
Then wrap in Black Forest ham your favorite dip or cream cheese mixture. I used a cranberry jalapeno spread.
The rest is all freshness of the season: red and green grapes, blackberries, a beautiful pear.
Then garnish with sage and rosemary!
Breakfast and brunch ideas
Think more about the table time, enjoying meals with others. You can enjoy these board ideas for the holidays.
Crustless Quiche Lorraine Recipe
Mini Christmas Cake Cheese Board
Trader Joe’s Belgian Waffle Board
Breakfast Casserole with Spinach and Feta (Skinnytaste)
Epic Christmas Cinnamon Roll Board
How to cook cheese blintzes
You can cook the blintzes either in a skillet or the oven!
- On the stove, heat a skillet on low. Add butter or cooking spray and cook the blintzes on low for about 8 minutes, turning regularly. You can then keep warm in the oven until ready to serve.
- In the oven (or toaster oven) at 400 degrees, spray a baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes. Flip over, and bake an additonal 3 minutes. Turn the oven off and keep warm until ready to serve.
Start a new tradition
As I mentioned, because we’re a little unsettled this year (we’re working hard to get into our fixer upper house this week), I’m letting go of expectations for usual holiday traditions.
Have you thought about starting a new tradition? My friend, Marie, wrote a great post, Christmas Traditions for an Empty Nest. I couldn’t agree more. Change things up, ask yourself, ‘Why is this a tradition? And is it one we want to keep?’”
If traditions need tweaking (not all do, but some really do), then stop and re-evaluate if it’s still working for you. Just by doing that, you’ve created the option for change.
So many of us keep on doing the same thing over and over, when we don’t enjoy it, and others around us don’t enjoy it.
I always say, ask your family every year … do we want to do this again this year?
So a new tradition … invite people over for breakfast or brunch. Whether on the weekend, or Christmas Eve Eve morn, or even Christmas Eve morn … make a breakfast board!
Garnish with a RED PEAR (festive!), berries, sage, and rosemary & serve!
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Ingredients
- 4 boxes Trader Joe's Cheese Blintzes
- 1 pkg Adele’s Chicken Sausage
- 1 loaf Pomander Orange Cake
- 1 loaf Streusel Bread Baka
- 1 jar Italian Strawberries in syrup
- 4 slices Black Forest ham
- 1/2 cup cranberry jalapeno dip/spread, or favorite cream cheese spread
- Red and green grapes
- Fresh blackberries
- 1 red pear, for garnish
- 1 cup Whipped cream
- Sage and rosemary, for garnish
Instructions
- On a large prepared board, place a large plate in the center (to hold the blintzes). Start the baking or stovetop cooking process of the blintzes about 25 minutes before ready to serve.
- On the stove, heat a skillet on low. Add butter or cooking spray and cook the blintzes on low for about 8 minutes, turning regularly. You can then keep warm in the oven until ready to serve.
- In the oven (or toaster oven) at 400 degrees, spray a baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes. Flip over, and bake an additonal 3 minutes. Turn the oven off and keep warm until ready to serve.
- While the blintzes are cooking, arrange the rest of the food items on the board. Place the strawberries, whipped cream, and the cream cheese spread in small bowls.
- Cook the sausage. Spread the cream cheese in the ham; roll and cut into bite sizes.
- When ready to serve, place the warm blintzes on the large plate.
- Garnish with a RED PEAR (festive!), berries, sage, and rosemary and serve!
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Looks beautiful and delicious! What a great idea for brunch.