Awesome Raclette Party last night!

April 11, 2009 by tina.

Kris from U-Bake and her husband joined my husband and I at our house for a Raclette party last night and it was out of this world! The food AND the company! We ate until we almost exploded and we may have done just a little bit of laughing, which was fortunate because that burned off calories so that we could eat some more. The tray of cheeses hosted feta, bleu, sharp cheddar, swiss, pepper jack and cave aged gruyere from the Cheese Corner and some raclette cheese I picked up the last time I was at Trader Joe’s. (You may recall how I waxed poetical about them in the not-so-distant past.) (Of course, the grill itself came from the Cheese Corner also!) Then bring on the meat! We had scallops, shrimp, steak and chicken. Accompany all of that with fresh vegetables: asparagus, red, green and yellow peppers, pea pods, green beans and onions. Now keep in mind that all of these items will be covered with melty cheese from the tray o’ cheeses. It was really too delicious for words. The only negative to the evening was the potatoes. Raclette in Switzerland, where it originated, consists primarily of potatoes cooked on the grill top and then covered in the melted cheese from the dishes below. Well, not being from Switzerland, I did not know that it goes a lot better if you boil the potatoes, at least a little bit, before hand. Even though I bought the little baby red kind, potatoes don’t really cook very fast on a skillet. But, Kris, I think yours were finally done this morning!

We were so full that it was nearly torture to choke down the U-Bake Strawberry Cream Cheese Turnovers! Thanks Kris and Scott for a fabulous evening!

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