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Quick Cheese Fondue

Source of Recipe

Mercia Sixta


Recipe Introduction

Do you ever get tired of all those great sounding, but challenging meal ideas and want something dead easy? The answer is a cheese fondue, as an appetizer or a meal. * * *

Buy a couple of foil-enclosed packages of Swiss cheese fondue at the grocery store -- ideally one with Kirsch -- plus 2 loaves of French bread, and some veggies (cauliflower, mushrooms, broccoli), and a nice bottle of wine. And pack a set of fondue forks.

Melt the cheese at low heat in a regular cooking pot; parboil (blanche) the veggies to just beyond crisp; cut the bread in bite-size cubes...voila!

The unopened packages of fondue are easy to pack and will keep for a long time, so it's a great meal for late in a trip, or a handy lunch. You can also remove a few coals from a fire and move them to a sandy depression, put your pot of fondue on top and keep the fondue warm for the duration of the feast.

This also goes well with leftover fish. Perfect with a good bottle of wine.

(Hint: If you want to bring along a real wine glass, pack the glass in an empty metal tennis ball can.)