Durrus Cheese Fillo Bites

Finding interesting and new hors d'oeuvres to serve is often a challenge — they can be time-consuming if you want them to have a lot of flavor, and bland if you want to make them quickly. But chef and writer Rachel Gaffney has a recipe that she believes is a winner with any crowd. The secret is using simple but high-quality ingredients and then letting them speak for themselves. As she notes, "Let the ingredients be the star."

Her Durrus Cheese Fillo Bites take a cheese from Gaffney's native County Cork, Ireland, and combines it with a light delectable pastry, pistachio nuts, and quince. She believes the secret is in the Durrus cheese: "It has a soft pink rind and it's a raw cow's milk cheese," she says. And it really pulls the whole dish together.

For the full recipe, watch the video above and if you like that hors d'oeuvre you can find more at Irish Farmstead Cheese.