Inspired by The Melting Pot and our love for the Wisconsin Cheese Trio served there, I thought it would be fun to make some fondue for Valentine's Day. I looked up some recipes, and it seemed pretty easy (it was). The cheese was expensive, but turned out to be worth every penny.
For the main course I went with homemade pizza, because we usually have pizza for Valentine's Day so I wanted to continue that. Of course, in retrospect, I realize that we then had A LOT of cheese tonight, but nobody complained.
I researched some different Melting Pot chocolate fondue recipes, and found one that was basically just milk chocolate and caramel mixed together, so I went with that as it sounded good. I was right- so incredibly delicious!
Really, it was so delicious!!! We even talked about how we could find a way to do this twice a year instead of just once. This will definitely be our new Valentine's tradition!
HERE is the cheese fondue recipe. I substituted white and red vinegars for the wine and sherry. It was a little strong, but still delicious. Next year I want try something a little more mild than the white wine vinegar. It seems silly to buy a bottle of wine just to use 3/4 cup once a year, but we'll see. Like I said, this was still delicious, just a little strong.
Homemade pizza:
Camille's favorite part was dipping marshmallows. Audra preferred the brownie bites to dip, while Claire liked the strawberries and bananas. Good thing we had a big selection!
HERE is the chocolate recipe (which I didn't follow- I had some leftover chocolate sauce and just used that with caramel sauce. YUM!)
1 comment:
Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but I always have a bottle of Pinot Grigio in my fridge for cooking. I use it when I saute Brussel sprouts, add it to cream pasta sauces, etc. I don't go through a ton of wine, but I don't feel like it's a waste to have it around. A little bit does go along way. Also, I would imagine that subbing vinegar for wine would be crazy strong. I usually use something like chicken broth. :) We usually do fondue for V-Day, but this year we had cub scouts.
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