If you made my honey cake and have some extra honey around, here’s a super easy appetizer that works its charms year-round. Feta cheese drizzled with honey. Sound appealing? OK, I’ll fess up. The first time I heard about it, I thought it was weird, too.
Then I remembered how much I love that Southern favorite, a block of cream cheese topped with a jar of pepper jelly, all drippy and gooey and smeared on crackers, and I started coming around. Cheese plates in restaurants are often served with a dainty dollop of some rare berry jam or conserve. And it works, because salty and sweet have always had a thing for each other.
So I wiped the milky brine from a slab of feta—I’m rather partial these days to French feta, but hey, grab what you can find—and set it on a plate. Then I coarsely cracked some peppercorns with a mortar and pestle and added them to some good local honey. I figured the peppercorns would take it in a more savory direction. You could add a little chopped fresh rosemary, too, but I’d warm the honey in that case, to take the piney edge off the herb. Drizzle it over the feta and flank it with some rustic toasted bread or crackers, then dig in. I bet you’ll agree it’s pretty darn good. Perhaps sublime? Better have another toast and see.
Your recipe is very close to the Greek appetizer that especially is been made in Crete. I have the pleasure of living in Greece and I tasted that in a Cretan restaurant in Santorini (excellent restaurant..) this summer… as soon as I came back to Athens I tried to make it and it was amazing. I only wrapped a piece of feta in phyllo dough, wrapped it as a parcel and fried until golden coloured. In another small pan I warmed some honey and balsamic vinegar and a teaspoon of water. I poured it over the cooked feta. To serve just add a pinch of sesame seeds…. Excellent!!!