Worth a dash out to the grocery store now, or for New Year's Eve...
68ROX' Six Cheese Cheese Ball
1 lb Cream Cheese (room temp.)
1 lb Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheese
1 lb (brick) Swiss Cheese
1 lb (brick) Monterrey Jack--or--Gouda--or Colby--Pick ONE
1 lb (brick) Mozzarella
8-12 oz Blue Cheese
Carefully (you still want to keep your fingers & knuckles, right) grate all cheeses except cream and blue....set off to the side.
Add--
2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
2 T Worchestershire Sauce
2 T Parsley
1/2 T Dill (sprinkled over cheese)
1 T Paprika
1 onion FINELY minched
4 Pieces of bacon, fried and dried over paper towels, and finely crumbled
1/2 cup of black olives, minced
1/2 cup of green, stuffed, Spanish Olives, finely sliced
1/4 cup mayonaise
(1/4 cup fresh chives or green onion tops optional)
(2 T red pepper flakes optional)
Add in the last two cheeses (cream & blue) and mix all ingredients EXTREMELY well with your hands or a commercial food processor (you want the ingredients to keep their pre-mixed shape, not end up as a mush).
If you are taking this to someone's house as an appetizer, here is where you will want to divide off about 1/4 of your cheese ball, because once they have tasted it, you'r chances of you bringing any left overs home are ZERO.
LIGHTLY (at less than 150F) toast a small jar of sesame seeds, and place them on the outside of the cheeseball. Place in refridgerator until 1 hour prior to eating, then remove from refridgerator to allow to warm to around room temperator.
Provide butter knives or cheese serving knives on the serving platter.
Serve with STRONG crackers, sush as Keebler "Toasteds" Sesame Crackers, or Nabisco "BIG Baked Wheat Thin" crackers or even Melba Toast.
Regular saltines, and other crackers will simply crumble when cheese ball is applied.
This is also really good for the Winter sports season...use Fritos Large Scoops, and serve with hot chili topped with sour creme and hot sauce on the side.
(If you need "$20,000 Prize Winning Chili", search for it to be found in another thread on this board....it's phreeeeeeking AWESOME!)
Happy Holidays, AH'ers!!!!!
68ROX
