do you fondue at home?

[Breezy_Carol]

Yes, beef fondue. I use peanut oil and heat it on the stove before moving it to the table. A sterno keeps the oil plenty hot... usually have to block part of the flame to keep it from boiling up too hard!!

i serve French onion soup and then a salad and baked potatoes with the meat. I am not a big sauce fan bit we have made a-1 with mayo or curry with mayo...

This sounds a lot like what we did. Beef fondue with several sauces, baked potato, salad. We would do it with the kids for New Years Eve. My son liked it so much he would want it for his birthday meal when he was in middle school.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Every now and then but always on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve we do a cheese fondue with french bread and broccoli and mini kilbasi and then later we have chocolate fondue with all kinds of fruits and pretzels and lady fingers and stuff. My favorite it fresh pineapple in chocolate. 2 years ago for New Years we did the cheese at night and the chocolate New Years day because we had bought chocolates from around the world in EPCOT and the kids wanted to do those that night, we went back to it at night last year since we had not been to Disney. It has been tradition for me dine I was a kid and my kids love it! We plan to do the chocolates from around EPCOT again but may enjoy them on another night since they like the fondue tradition so much.

 

[N&B'smom]

YES!! We do chocolate fondue every NYE. We dip strawberries, grapes, bananas, pretzels, cake, etc. It's our tradition and the kids LOVE it!

 

[lovetoscrap]

My girls both had Fondue parties for their last birthday. Many of their friends had never had fondue so it was a huge hit! We just did cheese and chocolate. I have to electric pots, one that my in laws bought me and one that I got from Freecycle.

Anyone have a good recipe for the broth based or Coq a Vin cooking liquid for the entrees like they do at Melting Pot? I would rather not do the oil.

 

[MrsToad]

When DS was still living at home, we would have Swiss Cheese Fondue with day-old French bread for dinner once a month or so, but always on a Friday night. It became a tradition to put in a James Bond movie and sit around the coffee table with our fondue and bread.

We recently had a pre-trip family meeting with DS and DDIL, who are going with us to WDW for the first time since they got married. DS insisted I make the fondue. It gave me the warm and fuzzies to know that he still thought of it so fondly.

 

[si-am]

Fondue is a Christmas Eve tradition in our home. We heat up oil (heat on stove, keep hot in fondue pot with Sterno) and cook steak along with cheese cubes (cheddar coated in bread crumbs.)

For sides, we have green bean casserole and crackers/chips with dips. And smoked oysters.

A strange combo of stuff but it's all stuff I love!

 

[cassiez76]

My girls both had Fondue parties for their last birthday. Many of their friends had never had fondue so it was a huge hit! We just did cheese and chocolate. I have to electric pots, one that my in laws bought me and one that I got from Freecycle.

Anyone have a good recipe for the broth based or Coq a Vin cooking liquid for the entrees like they do at Melting Pot? I would rather not do the oil.

i only do the broth based fondue. i googled melting pot recipes and found some a few years ago.

i first bring it to a boil on the stove, but you really don't have to with the electric pots, it gets really hot.

AND i find if you have at least 1 box of broth and an extra can of it, that works, cause sometimes it boils down too much, especially if you have plenty of adults using it out of 1 pot.

 

[goofy!]

So, if you were to do a meal at home, would you have more than one fondue pot going, or only one?

I have a small crockpot with a divider too for 2 different sauces, which would help.

But I only have one fondue pot and I have only used it ONCE for chocolate. I would love to actually use it for cooking meat and then have a dipping sauce for the meat and a dipping sauce for potatoes or bread.

I have the Rachel Ray fondue pot: http://www.amazon.com/Rachael-Ray-2...4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1286924930&sr=8-4

Dawn

Our dearest friends do a fabulous beef fondue dinner.

When we go over, it is the 8 of us - 4 adults, 4 teen boys.

We have two electric pots going, one on each end of the table.

They put out bowls of cut up fillet.

Then they make some incredible gravies; an onion gravy, a basil butter, and my favorite, a homemade bearnaise.

They serve it with baked potatoes or twice baked potatoes, a salad and some good wine.

Between the food and the company, it is always a great evening.

We just do a regular dessert, not a fondue dessert.

 

[megan4777]

We just started the fondue on Christmas Eve tradition last year.... it worked out really well and was relatively easy to do. I found a few recipes on allrecipes.com that were cheese based and we made them. DH and I go to The Melting Pot for our anniversary every year so I may try to find 1 or 2 of them for this year.

I have a Cuisinart pot that I was given for X-mas a few years ago and it works great. I also use 2 crockpots after heating everything up in saucepans for the other fondues...

 

[Witch Mountain]

We have three electric and two chocolate fondue pots and I make fondue about once a month. It's a guaranteed way to get more veggies into my kids, because who doesn't like to dip them in cheese.

The cheese fondue recipe we based ours on is from Alton Brown and can be found on the Food Network website. We just use different cheeses.

In fact, the kids have only been to Melting Pot once and my husband twice. I tend to get there only with girlfriends.

 

[1stluvispooh]

I do a chocolate fondue with fruit, pound cake and homemade peppermint marshmallows. I have a friend who always requests it. She loves the marshmallows

 

[Kies99]

We have a recipe for cheese fondue that is made in the microwave. Quick and easy to do and is really, really good. We all love it.

However, we much prefer Raclette to Fondue. While similar, we think it's more fun and actually promotes dinner conversation as it takes a bit longer.

 

[Glynis]

Every New Year's Eve we do fondue and play games with our kids. We do hot oil on the stove, where we can control the boil, but we've found that our kids don't really like the oil fondue.

I also make a cheese fondue that is marvelous with lightly steamed broccoli and cauliflower, bread cubes and potatoes! I do a pizza fondue which we dip Italian breadsticks and some cooked meats in. Dessert is our favorite, though. I make chocolate, butterscotch and warm strawberry fondue. We always have cut up fruit, angel food cake, graham crackers, pretzels, frozen cookie dough, cut up nut rolls and other yummy dippers.

We have a couple of regular fondue pots, but I've found that my crock pots work just as well, and give more surface room for dipping! I have a couple of really large pots that I use for the cheese and the chocolate, and smaller crocks for the other kinds. However, my dad just gifted us with the fondue set he and my mom bought in Switzerland years ago. Looks like I'll have to get some sterno. Anyone know where I can get it cheaply???

 

[Golf4food]

We do dessert fondue sometimes - chocolate in our chocolate melter and dip things like the Melting Pot does for desserts. A fun thing to break out from time to time.

 

[alliecats]

I too would like Magic Mom's beer cheese fondue recipe, PLEASE.

 

[liamsaunt]

Looks like I'll have to get some sterno. Anyone know where I can get it cheaply???

I buy sterno for my fondue pot at BJs wholesale club. It comes in a flat of cans that are the perfect size for fitting into the base of my fondue pot.

In the winter, I do make fondue occasionally. My favorite recipe calls for gruyere and emmenthaler tossed with cornstarch, white wine, kirsch, and a bit of nutmeg. Oh, and I rub the pot with a clove of garlic before cooking the fondue.

I have also made an apple cider-cheddar fondue, as well as a brie-pesto fondue, which are tasty, but I prefer the first recipe.

Dippers are usually cubed bread, chicken sausages, new potatoes, and broccoli.

 

[Micca]

Sterno is not expensive. I bought some at Kroger last week on close-out, 3 of those little cans for $1.99 (marked-down from $3.99).

 

[smschex]

We bought the Melting Pot's cookbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Into-Some...8304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286996016&sr=8-1

We have an electric pot and do the broth based fondue. Coq au Vin is our favorite. Shrimp, steak, and chicken are all great, plus mushrooms, broccoli, and potatoes. For dessert we use fresh fruit to did in the turtle fondue. Yum!

 

[Magic Mom]

As requested...

From my mother's falling apart copy (circa 1970) of The Gold Medal Fondue Cookbook....Welsh Rarebit Fondue. A family favorite.

1 pound aged cheddar cheese (sharp, NOT mild)
1 (12 oz) can of beer or ale
1 1/2 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/8 tsp celery salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
1 tsp paprika
1 tbsp butter

Open can of beer and let sit at room temp for several hours.
Combine mustard, celery saly, pepper, worcestershire sauce and paprika. Set aside. On the stove top, melt butter in fondue pot. Add cheese 1/3 cup at a time. As the cheese melts, gradually add the beer, stirring constantly with wooden spoon. Add blended seasonings. Transfer to sterno stand over low heat. Keep cheese at a low simmer, just bubbling. Use french bread cubes and apples to dip.

 

[golfgal]

as requested...

From my mother's falling apart copy (circa 1970) of the gold medal fondue cookbook....welsh rarebit fondue. A family favorite.

1 pound aged cheddar cheese (sharp, not mild)
1 (12 oz) can of beer or ale
1 1/2 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1/8 tsp celery salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
1 tsp paprika
1 tbsp butter

open can of beer and let sit at room temp for several hours.
Combine mustard, celery saly, pepper, worcestershire sauce and paprika. Set aside. On the stove top, melt butter in fondue pot. Add cheese 1/3 cup at a time. As the cheese melts, gradually add the beer, stirring constantly with wooden spoon. Add blended seasonings. Transfer to sterno stand over low heat. Keep cheese at a low simmer, just bubbling. Use french bread cubes and apples to dip.

thanks!!