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cheese de-briefing
Feb. 29th, 2004 12:59 pmHere it is, Sunday already, and I have yet to mention anything about how well the fondue party went.
For starters, due to some recent late nights I have had at work lately, my boss was cool with me leaving early on Friday, so I had time to do some pre-party shopping. Being her typical out-of-work and happy-to-help sweet self,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noirem met me at work to be my lackey for the afternoon. Earlier that day I took bdot up on her call for house cleaning work and had her do a quick run through to get the stuff I never have time for (thanks!). It was nice to come home and only have the vacuuming left to do (a chore I don't mind doing too much). That gave noirem time to do some food prep, and me to (eventually) fuss with the ingredients.
By 6:15 or so, a couple of early arrivals with food prep needs (and willingness to help) showed up. By 7 (the posted start time) there were about 8 people there all working on setting-up. Yay for guests who pitch-in, the party was already underway! The guests continued to arrive at a steady pace, and fondue was soon being consumed at alarming rates. Volunteers were at hand whenever a new pot of fondue needed to be prepared, which kept things moving along.
Unfortunately, my BF, the co-host of this house warming party was stuck at work for the beginning. He finally just ditched work, stopped at the store to pick-up an angel food cake, and arrived well past 8. After a shower and a change into his sexy Utilikilt, he joined the masses in the cheese fest, and soon was his more relaxed social self.
For those who care, the menu was double batches of three different cheese fondue (traditional swiss, cheddar & onion, and cambazola), with a spiced red wine for cooking meats. For dessert we had a dark and milk chocolate, and I tried a new one: Drambuie Cream. Although I forgot to mix the cornstarch properly to prevent getting lumpy, the flavor was a nice addition to the rich chocolates. Yum! As for what to dip into the yummy fondue selections, we had way too much to list here.
( Lessons on how to throw a fondue party )
All in all I think we ended up with about 30 guests.emberleo was delighted to discover that the guest list had covered so many of her social circles that she was quite a social butterfly.
For starters, due to some recent late nights I have had at work lately, my boss was cool with me leaving early on Friday, so I had time to do some pre-party shopping. Being her typical out-of-work and happy-to-help sweet self,
noirem met me at work to be my lackey for the afternoon. Earlier that day I took bdot up on her call for house cleaning work and had her do a quick run through to get the stuff I never have time for (thanks!). It was nice to come home and only have the vacuuming left to do (a chore I don't mind doing too much). That gave noirem time to do some food prep, and me to (eventually) fuss with the ingredients. By 6:15 or so, a couple of early arrivals with food prep needs (and willingness to help) showed up. By 7 (the posted start time) there were about 8 people there all working on setting-up. Yay for guests who pitch-in, the party was already underway! The guests continued to arrive at a steady pace, and fondue was soon being consumed at alarming rates. Volunteers were at hand whenever a new pot of fondue needed to be prepared, which kept things moving along.
Unfortunately, my BF, the co-host of this house warming party was stuck at work for the beginning. He finally just ditched work, stopped at the store to pick-up an angel food cake, and arrived well past 8. After a shower and a change into his sexy Utilikilt, he joined the masses in the cheese fest, and soon was his more relaxed social self.
For those who care, the menu was double batches of three different cheese fondue (traditional swiss, cheddar & onion, and cambazola), with a spiced red wine for cooking meats. For dessert we had a dark and milk chocolate, and I tried a new one: Drambuie Cream. Although I forgot to mix the cornstarch properly to prevent getting lumpy, the flavor was a nice addition to the rich chocolates. Yum! As for what to dip into the yummy fondue selections, we had way too much to list here.
( Lessons on how to throw a fondue party )
All in all I think we ended up with about 30 guests.
emberleo was delighted to discover that the guest list had covered so many of her social circles that she was quite a social butterfly.
