The Raclette Experience:

Raclette is a slow food experience. The perfect culinary adventure to enjoy with: friends, family, colleagues or strangers, who inevitably will soon be new friends. You will spend most of your time around the dining room table, enjoying a leisurely meal of melted, bubbling cheese that you will slide over various ingredients that you prepped in the kitchen. Good conversation, a relaxed atmosphere and the sharing of stories, round out this culinary and cultural experience.
Wine pairing: Sauvingon Blanc

You are welcome to bring a bottle of wine (per two people) to Celine’s culinary experience, Celine's pairing suggestion is a Sauvignon Blanc. Please note our insurance policy requires that the wine consumption is no more than 2 glasses per person.

The Menu

Green Salad with Lemon Caper Dressing

Raclette

Served with sides that you will prep in the kitchen (some of these sides may vary at Celine’s discretion):

Three types of cheese to compare the flavours: Swiss raclette, Quebecois raclette and B.C raclette.

Steamed potatoes

Poached pears in tea

Fig jam

Sauteed onions

Prawns

Cornichons

Pickled onions

Paprika

Fresh fruit and Heidi’s custard

After the raclette a light and refreshing dessert will be served with fresh fruit and Celine’s stepmother’s custard.

What is Raclette cheese?

A specific type of Swiss cheese that is a mild cow's milk cheese but when heated the flavours and aromas of butter and nuts come forward. Raclette has a firm-yet-supple texture that melts beautifully when heated. The word raclette (from the French racler, or "to scrape") goes back to the days when Swiss cow herders used to melt raclette cheese on rocks close to glowing coals to scrape over food.

What is a slow food cooking?

An excerpt from Canadian Living on line magazine:

"Slow Food is a philosophy, as well as an international not-for-profit group. It's about history, tradition, culture and taste." says Brian Kienapple, founder of Slow Food Nova Scotia, one of the hundreds of chapters of Slow Food found in 105 countries. "Slow cooking is a technique, a way to prepare your meal," he says.

"Slow food is also about taking the time to eat together, having a communal experience," he says. "You have a dinner party with your family and friends, open a few bottles of wine, eat some great food, yak for a couple of hours -- that's slow food."

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Immersion Experience #2 Raclette Celine

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