Christmas Noms: Appetizers

Or: how to keep people happy while you're peeling too many potatoes.
So when I started fixing Christmas Dinner, I knew there would be lots of people ready to eat. So I laid out a table of snacky foods to minimize the "when's dinner going to be ready?" question. After all, it was a 3 hour endeavor.
Here's what we did:

Cheese plate with 3 kinds of cheese, salami, and grapes
tangelos, crackers, bananas
Christmas Cookies (thanks, Mom!)
Nut Crack
Brownies (Thanks, Pam!)
chocolates
and Rum Cake







The Cheese Plate is a favorite part of the set up; it takes little to no effort.
Look:

Brie
Rocquefort
and Manchego
Salami
Grapes

And some pepperjack and colby jack slices.
NOMS