It’s time for February’s Three Cooks One Kitchen!
In case you aren’t familiar Three Cooks One Kitchen is a monthly cooking installment Joanna, Hannah and I do. We pick one of our places to get together and a food theme we want to focus on. This month was at my apartment and involved fondue! We thought since February is the month of love it would be fun to get our guys involved and have a fondue day. It was also a Four Cooks One Kitchen day since our friend Jordan and her husband Ben joined us!
We decided to do a cheese fondue and a chocolate fondue and found recipes that sounded good online. (And were wine-free for Joanna!) While we were prepping the fondue dippers I kept remarking that I can’t believe people don’t fondue more often. Then as we actually started making the fondue I realized why: it’s hard!
Here are some pictures from our (mis)adventure:
Prepping the savory dips.
If you’re me hosting an event means jumping out of the shower and throwing on makeup right before guests arrive. I didn’t get to brush my hair until right before we ate. Sorry I look like a hobo. 😉
Hannah cutting up naan.
Me attempting to make chocolate fondue. Said attempt totally crashed and burned. Lesson learned: use a double boiler!
Joanna mixing the cheese fondue that alternated between going cold and steaming like crazy.
All the cheese goodies. Lemon is essential to keep the fondue from clumping.
Trying to get the cheese from the fondue pot to our plates was pretty hysterical.
Both Hannah and Joanna did a very respectable job with this.
The guys were nice and helped each other out.
I attempted to make a sandwich and then dip it all in the fondue at once. It didn’t go well and I lost half my sandwich in the fondue pot.
My sad attempt at a fondue dipped sandwich.
We had dips and a station all set up for chocolate fondue. I don’t know if you can see in the picture but it was more charcoal-y than chocolate-y.
I decided to be brave and try it. It… wasn’t very good. I took that as a sign to eat more of the cheese fondue (which was really yummy) and make animal cracker and marshmallow dessert sandwiches.
While the fondue wasn’t perfect, it sure was fun. We laughed so much and had an absolute blast together. And all the cheese and carbs were the best things to eat right before Extreme Beerfest. The next time I’m craving fondue though, I’m going to Melting Pot. 😉
To check out Hannah and Joanna’s recaps of the day check out their posts here:
- Clean Eating Veggie Girl (All my photos are thanks to Hannah and Jeremy!)
- Makingmine
Questions of the Day: Have you ever made fondue? Do you prefer savory or sweet? What’s your favorite fondue dipper?
The pictures with the cheese are hilarious because I would totally be right there trying to get the cheese too!
Even though it wasn’t super successful, it looks like yall had so much fun, and that’s the best part.
Now you’ve got me craving some fondue! I may have to hit up the Melting Pot when I’m back home next month.
I looooove fondue, but don’t have the guts to give it a shot at home. You girls did great- a good start, with just a little room for improvement, haha. (Pesky chocolate fondue!)
Happy Thursday!
-Ashley
Le Stylo Rouge
My friends and I had a fondue party for New Year’s Eve and everything turned out great except that crazy cheese!…it was great when we started but, soon, clumped up and was impossible to get onto our plates! We were all wondering how they get it so perfect at Melting Pot!
haha! This is exactly what would have happened to me if I tried making fondue. “A” for effort!
All I have to say is thank goodness we had a sense of humor about it… and plenty of other food 😉 Lesson learned!
I love fondue! The Melting Pot is my favorite!! We have our own fondue pot but like you said, it’s so much work!!! Thanks for sharing your adventure!!!
Emily
Dimples of Dixie
Even if it was a mis-adventure, it looks like everyone had a lot of fun.
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I’ve made cheese fondue at home a couple times. I can never get the cheese one to go the way I want to…even trying different recipes and tricks. I prefer Melting Pot over my fondue any day. But I’ve had great luck with making the chocolate fondue. My husband likes it, too. Thanks for sharing your experience. I enjoyed the photos!
Such a great post, love this! This cheese dip looks so yummy. Wishing you a happy Thursday! xo
Nicole
Evolution of Glam
It was seriously so much fun and I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! I definitely think we should leave fondue to the professionals next time. 😉
yummm i love fondue!