FuN-DoOoO

Ok. Today. Was. So. Awesome.

Why?

Well, every day is awesome during the Olympics.

But it's even MORE awesome when you get to eat FONDUE while watching the OLYMPICS. AHH!

[Also, thank you all for your concerns and emails over my allergy episodes. I have an appointment on Monday to get allergy tested and hopefully I'll figure out why my body is rejecting EVERYTHING lately. But, honestly, I'm so happy right now I think my adrenaline + endorphins will scathe off any anaphylaxis.]

So, we start today with a bit'o-cheese fondue....


And, we finish today with a WHOLE LOT OF CHOCOLATE FONDUE. AHHHHH!


So, for those of you that are getting married/starting registries: There are some really dumb things you can register for. A fondue pot is not one of those dumb things.

There is something so...fun...about dipping carbs, fat, and sometimes fruit into a vat of cheese or wine or chocolate. Seriously.

Thus, FUNDOOOO!

We typically host about 3-4 Fundoo parties per year. But this year, we totally want to break that record and do it a million times. Mark my words. A million.


Here's the best fundoo recipes I have (when we do Fundoo parties, we like to have 3 courses--cheese, meat, chocolate. The best three courses):

Cheese Fundoo

• 1 cup dry white wine
• 1/2 pound shredded Swiss cheese
• 1/2 pound shredded Gruyere cheese
• 2 tablespoons regular flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 (1 pound) loaf crusty bread
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• Put the wine in the fundoo pot and wait until this simmers (with our pot, this takes about .4 seconds.) Make sure you grate all the cheese...seriously....It's really important. Add the cheese in little handfuls and stir until it's all melted. Once all the cheese is in, add the flour, salt and nutmeg. Serve with cut-up crusty bread, sausages, apples, anything you can get your hands on. 

Ok, and little secret...if you have an electric fundoo pot, at the end of the night you'll have this delicious crusty little layer of cheese at the bottom of the pot. Put it on toast. It will rock your world. 

White Wine Fundoo (Ok...this one is awesome with raw shrimp or chicken. Use red wine if you want to switch it up and fundoo steak.)

• 1 bottle white wine
• 1 (2 inch) cinnamon stick
• 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
• 10 black peppercorns, crushed
• 4 whole cloves
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon celery salt
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
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• Pour wine into a saucepan (not straight into the fundoo...), and drop in a cinnamon stick, coriander, pepper, cloves, sugar, salt, celery salt, and garlic salt. Let sit for 1 hour, then bring to a boil. Filter through a fine sieve or colander lined with cheesecloth, and transfer to the fundoo. Bring it back to a boil and keep it there. 

So, for this one, you take raw little baby pieces of meat or fish, put it onto your little baby fundoo fork and let it sit in the broth until it cooks. Then, take it out, and enjoy its awesomeness. For this type of fundoo, you really want to get nice cuts of meat and fish, don't go cheap and don't go frozen. 

Chocolate Fundoo (This recipe makes A LOT of fundoo. I halved it for 6 people)

• 32 ounces milk chocolate, grated
• 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee powder (I have an espresso maker, so I use a shot of espresso instead...)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/3 cup hot water
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• Melt the chocolate in your fundoo pot over medium with the heavy cream. Mix in the shot of espresso or instant coffee and the rest of the ingredients. Continue to heat it up and stir (lots) until it's all smooth. Dip in anything. Seriously. Some favorites? Marshmellows, strawberries (still not allergic?), graham crackers, any fruit, cheese (srrsly), bread... Just do it.