Our beautiful friend Amelie invited us to a Raclette Night last week! For those of you sadly not in the know, raclette is a French (or Swiss, depending on whom you ask) cheese dish in which a table-top grill is used to heat individual-sized cheese pans that are then poured onto bread, potatoes, and meat.
Dinner consisting of mainly cheese?
Um, yes please. (Or, my French excuse: “Oui, oui, c’est vendredi!”)
Just upon entering Amelie’s home the wafting scent of fromage came adrift down the hallway, which might sound unappetizing but was in fact so enticing it acted as a homing beacon.
Untraditional as it may be, I wonder if pouring raclette over vegetables could also be fair game. If I get the green light, next time I might show up with a basket full of CSA broccoli or brussels sprouts and get crazy.
After the dairy-palooza, as if a mountain of cheese and starch wasn’t enough of a perfect meal, Amelie made an exquisite tart tartine for dessert.
All in all a perfect evening full of food, drink, and cheer. Oh, and also cheese. Really stellar, stinky cheese.
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Amazeballs!
yum we love doing this on New Year’s Eve at Ina and Richard’s house!
Oooh I love that they do it on New Years! What a perfect way to ring it in.
As we say in France, a dinner is only as good as the guests, and you people are delicious!
Nous avons une veine de cocu!
So you know the riginal way to do this was to set the raclette by the fireplace and it would get all oozy…I personally love raclette for grilled cheese sandwiches. This looks ah-mazing!
Ohh, if only we had working fireplaces in this fair city!