Yum yum! I love salty cheese and honey.

This sounds delicious, and right in line with my cooking skills.

Love the simplicity. Look forward to trying this. Thanks.

I do something similar. Warm brie, honey, and almonds. So I imagine I'd like this!

Looks wonderful. And - timely. I'm making appetizers and desserts for Thanksgiving and wanted one more option ;) Thank you.

Dang! So easy! Never would have thought of something so simple....thanks!

Definitely easy! I always have feta and honey on hand so just need the pistachios. Thanks, Lynn!

Sweet appetizers aren't that common, or am I missing something? Aren't appetizers more typically in the savory-tangy direction? A sweet taste will clash with many cocktail hour beverages, like wine. Have you not found that to be the case?

I love red wine paired with Snickers bars, so this would work for me.

Sweet and salty is something I cannot stomach, and I also would not want a sweet appetizer. It sounds more like a dessert to me, or something someone might have after dinner. I would rather have the pistachios by themselves for an appetizer, or the feta in spanakopita, which I like to make.

Wasn't the point of this post that it was something "DIFFERENT"?

^No, the point was that it was supposed to be "delicious", as I understood it.

An important point to remember is that not everyone will like it. Some will, and some won't, but it would be wrong to thing that everyone would.

So did you try it? Or just said I don't like it without trying it? Like my husband.

ETA: He will not eat anything with green in it. Or garlic. Or red onion. Or any of the other stuff he will not taste, ever.

I like the idea of it also being a dessert. That'd be a cool cheese course

I know I do not like honey on anything salty, and I have tried that. I said that I like feta and pistachio. Everything I've had so far that combined sweet and salty I have hated, but I won't bother to list them, but it does include Chinese "sweet and sour" and any kind of BBQ sauce that is remotely sweet.

I like baklava as long as it is not salty, but only as a dessert, and I would never eat it as an appetizer.

I eat pancakes and waffles without syrup or honey. I am not a fan of sweets.

Then do not comment.

Elmer, sweet doesn't always clash with wine. I have on order an expensive box of chocolates for intimate wine pairings for neighbors for Christmas. It's a duplicate of something I gave them a few years ago and they loved it, gave rave reviews. A couple who has or could have anything they want and I really struggle with ideas when buying for them - this year I fell back on something I knew they'd enjoyed.

I adore dark chocolate and red wine.......

" Then do not comment. "

The forum sheriff has spoken. Prescribes rules for others.

If you cannot say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

" Elmer, sweet doesn't always clash with wine. "

No, but it often does. Not everyone has the same tastes, the same taste preferences, or even good tasting ability. There are plenty of people who like combinations that others may dislike. A lot of people find the combination of a dry wine and a sweet flavor an unpleasant clash. It's why in wine tasting, wines are often sequenced in the familiar order of beginning with the most dry and tangy and moving on to the least and then sweet wines last. You can't move in the other direction; sweetness numbs the taste buds when more dry flavors come along.

More of the same. Sorry, your make-believe badge and your moral assessments aren't recognized here.

I don't typically like honey, but in this mix I can see it being really tasty. I like it because it's so different, and only 3 ingredients, 2 of which I always have on hand ( feta and honey). I wonder if other nuts like walnut would work? Asking because I always have those on hand.

Now my other question-- how do you eat it? do you take with a toothpick? eat with a fork? It does look lovely but kind of messy?

I think this looks promising. Yes it's sweet,but sometimes a mixture is a good thing. We sometimes go to a gathering where it's a potluck of hors d'oevres and desserts so this would go well.

Ya can't please everyone all the time so at least be sure you are pleasing yourself! I am thinking the honey that sticks to the feta will be minimal. Add the nuts and I would think this is not really very sweet. It's worth a try with my people. We are fans of all three ingredients. We LOVE goat cheese with pepper jelly on crackers too. A bff makes the pepper jelly from grapes I harvest. She grows the peppers. It's delicious! It's sweet and tangy and it pairs well with wine or Champagne when we snack after Christmas eve Mass!!! This will make a nice second to our post Mass celebrating!! Thanks for sharing!!

Sounds delish! I like that it's fast and easy and will have to give it a try. I can totally see this as being an appetizer. I love sweet and salty combo, and I also enjoy wine with sweet foods. Love some biscotti flavors and almond cookies, with certain wines, and of course, chocolate and wine. Trader Joes sells a really good honey chevre. It's so good on a fig cracker (also from TJ), with rose wine, although I never would have put that combo together.

I’ve found certain sweet/salty appetizers to be very well received, such as caramelized bacon, candied pecans, prosciutto-wrapped fruit, or fig jam as part of a charcuterie board with some salty items. Tastes do vary but the items I mentioned all tend to disappear when served with various wines and cocktails.

Lol, when I first saw the image I thought it was pickle relish. 🤢😬

Sounds good, I'd certainly try it if offered ... and might even buy the ingredients and offer it myself! Thanks for the recipe!

And Arcy and Ricky Nelson are exactly right: But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone
So you got to please yourself

Wise words from Ricky!

No apology needed!

“I want to apologize…”

Lynn, if that were necessary, every one of my umpteen cookbooks should have an apology in the preface/intro. Hard to imagine some of the recipes might not appeal to everyone! 😳😉

No reason at all for an apology, and no reason at all to take comments personally. I think the concoction described is worth trying. For the reason I mentioned, I wouldn't do so as an appetizer at a cocktail hour. I think that's one view that would be shared because of the sweetness but everyone can have their own views. Many don't drink wine or spirits so good any time.

I think it looks like an interesting combo. I was thinking that adding a few finely chopped dried cranberries to the pistachios would be pretty for the holidays.

Lynn, you shouldn't be the one offering apologies here. There is a common denominator in these threads becoming contentious and it's not you.

There's one personal insult in this thread and it's the hypocritical one in the comment just above.

You need another pastime to add to your childish practice of stalking and insulting me.

Wow, Elmer. Whatever do you mean? Not everything is about YOU! lol

OK. Enough! This is about a simple recipe and not any of you.

LynnMN, since I like all 3 ingredients this recipe really interests me. However, I only have had Feta crumbled on some sort of food. Does Feta come in a solid form? It sounds as tho’ that is what you used.

I had to laugh at Rhizo’s comment about thinking it was pickle relish. I thought the topping was more than just pistachios. 😄 The honey must pick up a lot.

In France, CHampagne is usually served with these biscuits..... Personally I'm not a fan but it's traditional and people love lt. https://www.joursheureux.fr/p/495-biscuits-roses-de-reims-3714005.html?gclid=CjwKCAiA68ebBhB-EiwALVC-NmMxepkf9Mj-LExmZoZq7W9_AofoH53l_dMQx5fNFvXBcD4hY3GX9xoClrEQAvD_BwE

CA Kate- we buy both forms of Feta. It comes in the block itself, and we also get slices of the block in liquid- in a square container at Costco.

Also--- asking how messy is it? (the appetizer)

Salon, a bir messy making them, but I serve them with toothpicks, so that makes them easy and non-messy to eat.

thank you Lynn- I am very literal so what might seem like very basic or common sense....... is helpful to have spelled out for me.

Really like this recipe. Thank you for sharing. Not sure I'll have it for Thanksgiving but I am definitely going to bring it to one of the pot luck gatherings.

Interesting combination of flavours, I like all of the components. I have recently discovered "hot honey", honey spiced with chilis and that would add another dimension to the salty sweet combo. Think I will give it a try at our next family gathering.

I'd try it if someone made it for me. I'm keeping my own Thanksgiving meal plan basic. There are no appetizers. Lol!

You can probably get fresh pistachios from Alamagordo or someplace else fairly local.

“I was thinking that adding a few finely chopped dried cranberries to the pistachios…”

Nice!

Kate, I buy blocks of feta in brine. If you can get it, I prefer French feta since it’s creamier and a little less salty. We have a couple sources for it here, but whatever you like is good.

Elmer, dude, get a grip. Why do you always have to show your ass?

Judi…. stop being a troll. This isn’t a thread in which to vent your angst.

CA Kate z9, I've read enough of Elmer's posts through the years to know what he does best.