I find Mascarpone cheese to be a good way to add a creamy texture to some of the tasty dry cheeses, so you spread some of it on the cracker then choose a thinner slice of the sharp cheddar or even a Red Windsor, Oh yeah, I know this because my wife put me in charge of the cheese and crackers for our hoity toity parties, I am also in charge of wines and liquOr but that is for all parties...
Our last party was last weekend because a friend of ours is moving away, so we had a little get together just 18 people, and I did a Gusto Garlic Pesto cheese ball in the center of the plate (we have a specific cheese and cracker serving plate which she has made its like 24"!!!}, then I did, the normal cheddar and for the swiss I did Gruyere slices, BUT I added some Camembert instead of brie, and I did a marscapone bowl with a small bowl of grated pecorino romano, then a few bowls of herbs... For crackers we did ritz {of course, then some sea solt, and some deli style, and of course a soft and a hard pita... For liquor we had grey goose, El Dorado Guyana Rum , Jameson gold reserve, and the bar was of course open but them are the bottles I bought for the party and set out... Pretty basic stuff with a party like this, most women will drink wine coolers from the fridge, or vodka with OJ, Cranberry, Pineapple, or all 3 or more what ever is sweet... And most of the guys will drink whiskey or beer... the rum and coke is split down the middle, women and men drink it, I used to get kahlua and creamy liquors for the women, but now they are all on diets, so its vodka and fruit, the guys used to be Patron and long island ice teas, this is now either beer or whisket with the occasional rum and coke... For a while there a few years back, the summer drinks were all fruity and iced, that is now over {THANK GOD}, now summer is the same as the rest of the year, them stupid colorful never get it rite drinks are a thing of the past... Back to basics...
This is all very true, I have thrown so many parties, I should rite a book about the drinks and cheese... We had 18 guests plus me and my wife, no dinner- just over for a while with finger sandwiches{I lost this responsibility in the "great sandwhich cabockle of 2010" when I accidentally used Red Chille Peanut dressing on the pulled chicken sandwiches and my brother'n'laws cousin had to get rushed to the hospital for a peanut allergy} , drinks and my cheese plate... And now next party we go to someone will copy us, last year we did a party with all gourmet little private pizzas, where we had a caterer come in and make everyone a pizza with what ever they wanted on it, everyone got an 8" pizza and there was tons of topping options, it was a huge hit.... I have NOW been to 10 of them parties!!! Damn copy cats...
Them pulled chicken breast sandwiches were delicous with that chilli peanut dressing, they had just the rite amount of everything, except for the guy that was allergic, for him it was way too much peanut, he ended up in a mini coma, and tried to sue me!!!! Family, lol... I think he thought we would settle out of court, and when his lawyers letter was answered by my lawyers office his attorney must have been like "this may not be a good idea?" and they dropped it, then he had the balls to ask my wife why him and his wife weren't invited to our parties, FKN scumbag, his car even leaked oil on my driveway, I should have sued him, he didn't even ask if there was any peanuts in anything, he was just there to eat up my free food... douche...
But anyway, I am definitely taking pics of my next cheese plate... I don't make the cheese balls by the way, nor do I really think up all the combos of stuff, I kind of drop the big huge plate off at the deli and pick it up the next morning all done up, my butchers wife does it all
.. But she is always soooo nice when she takes the time to explain it all to me so I can act like I know what Im talking about when people ask me what it is, Im always like, "yes that is a whole wheat cracker dipped in a balsamic glaze then dried over apple wood" lol... My favorite was when she made some sandwich trays for me that I brought to a meeting at my sons school, and she said "turkey cranberry" I heard "Jerky manberry" {they have all weird names and the women speaks broken english} so Im going around telling people thats a jerky manberry and people liked them, so then I ordered sandwiches again a few eeks later and ordered the jerky manberry and the daughter was like "WHAT?" I then found out what a jerk I was..., Now I have them make little name plates for the sandwiches... My favorite is the "cold corn piggy", it has sausage chili inside a cornbread roll, that should be illegal to make, its sooo good... and the name.. the cold corn piggy, who the fk thinks of this stuff?!?!?!?
Now as far as the OP being serious, nahhh... If you are serious, then wake the fk up, and stop talking retarded, you either have way too much time or just suck.... Because you have taken none of the advice given here and yet you still post, wtf is that about, go haunt another board somewhere else with this non sense... You have NO idea what you want, first its HT now its music, these aren't things people are on the fence about when spending $10K...
Its this EZ, you want a killer music system that will impress anyone within earshot, then get your self a pair of sierra towers, a ULS15 dual drive, an XPA2 amp, XSP1 processor, 4 emotiva XLR balanced cables, and a pair of emotiva speaker cables, it will cost around $6000 and be incredible, that is all there is to it... If you want a home theater, get a denon 3313, with 4 ascend sierra bookshelfs and a sierra center, and an hsu vtf3 dual drive, that will cost around $4000 and be great....
Them are the best value for the money systems I have heard in a long time, and after listening to a lot of systems, for what you are supposedly spending on the system with the seas pendragons, you can buy both of them systems!!!!! But you wont buy that stuff because you probably don't have $10,000 available if you added the limit of all your credit cards, never mind liquid extra funds to drop on a stereo system....
Just give it up, log off, start another screen name in a few weeks and start over, maybe with a thread that says "I have $2500 for a 50/50 music movies sound system, whats the best sound for my money?" and we will give you our oppinions, you will go buy that stuff and live happily ever after... The problem is you don't know what you want, BUT think you do, you aren't even asking questions anymore, and I laugh everytime I read a post of you telling others what they should be buying, when you havent heard any of it. 98% of the stuff I recommend I either own, owned, or heard and critically listened to.... I would be surprised if you have even heard what anyone can walk into best buy and listen to, I have heard speakers that we had to make an appt. to listen to and drive to NJ to see....
