Thursday, October 9, 2014

All that Cheese ~ November 2014



Its been so long!  I missed my cooking club gals.  September was a busy "gettin' back to routine" month  - so we postponed.  In October, our friend Betty had a bad accident making piccalilli.  It was a scary incident but Betty healed nicely and joined us for our November Grilled Cheese night.

Everyone brought something yummy... so many types of cheeses, breads, spreads and tapenades.

To kick things off we dug into a yummy warm gooey artichoke dip that Denise made....





Then we got busy slicing bread, grating cheese, chopping fruit.  It was fun preparing our meal together.






We made all different types of grilled cheese... from your basic Ham & Cheese, to Manchego cheese with Fig and Olive salad and my favorite one was brie with pears and salted caramel!



Check out that stack of bread and cheese! Heaven on a plate....



Jeanne brought a fantastic caesar salad.  I need this recipe!  It had great garlic flavor... not too overpowering and it was an oil based  - not creamy.  Delish!


I brought a tomato soup... fresh garden tomatoes.  No cream - just chicken stock so I guess its fairly low calorie.






Cooking club girls.... missing Cindy and Jen.  Hopefully we'll all be together in December!
Jen, Denise, Betty, Rita, Jeanne, Angi and Nina