Fruit and Blue Cheese Bites

A super simple appetizer that begins with quality, seasonal fruit pieces and delicious chunks of blue cheese. This appetizer is as simple and scalable as it looks. Begin with a basic cocktail cracker (the ones pictured below come from Costco and are a simple white cracker with sea salt), and add a small bit of fresh, seasonal fruit to the cracker. I recommend something like pear or strawberry (pictured below) as they pair well with blue cheese, but could be anything from apples, to grapes, to honeydew. 

On top of the fruit, place a small chunk of blue cheese. Then for the finishing touch, drizzle balsamic reduction over the plate, making sure to touch each fruit and blue cheese bite with the final sauce. A fantastic, easy discovery I made to have a readily available balsamic reduction (vs. heating and reducing balsamic vinegar every time) is to buy Blaze balsamic reduction from Costco (a simple, squeeze bottle of reduced vinegar).