{"id":5777,"date":"2017-04-07T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2017-04-07T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:52:34","slug":"vivian-howards-party-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/07\/vivian-howards-party-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Howard\u2019s Party Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00bc cup high-quality blue cheese (I like Maytag)
\n\u2153 cup (5\u00bd tablespoons) butter
\n\u00bc cup fresh goat cheese
\n\u00bc cup plus 2 tablespoons cream cheese
\n\u00bc cup chopped dates
\n2 tablespoons finely chopped scallions (both white and green parts work here)
\n\u00bc teaspoon salt
\n1\/3 cup Salt-and-Butter-Roasted Pecans (recipe below), roughly chopped
\n2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley<\/p>\n

SALT-AND-BUTTER-ROASTED PECANS
\n2 cups pecan halves or pieces
\n2 tablespoons melted butter
\n3\/4 teaspoon salt, divided<\/section>\n
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For the cheese ball:
\nTake the blue cheese, butter, goat cheese, and cream cheese out of the refrigerator to soften 30 minutes before making your cheese-ball mixture.<\/section>\n
\nIn the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine all the ingredients except for the pecans and parsley. Paddle it up till homogenous. It will be loose and sticky and you\u2019ll wonder how you\u2019re ever going to form that mess into a ball. The answer is, you transfer the bowl to the refrigerator for 15 minutes or so. During that time the cheese mix will firm up enough for you to pat it into a sphere. Once it\u2019s stiff enough to hold up, form the ball and roll that ball in the pecans, followed by parsley.<\/section>\n
\nFor the salt-and-butter-roasted pecans:Preheat your oven to\u00a0350\u00baF. Toss the pecans thoroughly with the melted butter and\u00a0\u00bd\u00a0teaspoon of the salt. Spread them out in a single layer on a baking sheet and slide that\u00a0sheet onto the middle rack of your oven. Roast the pecans for 11 minutes if using whole pecans and 10 minutes if you\u2019re using pieces.<\/p>\n

Bring the slightly darkened and toasty-smelling pecans out of the oven and hit them with the remaining salt. Let them cool 5 minutes before you eat them. These will keep for 7 days in an airtight container at room temperature.<\/p>\n

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