With a picky four-year-old who loves veget\u00adables but won\u2019t eat much else (she won\u2019t touch pizza or sushi, for example), and an elev\u00aden-year-old who\u2019s only slowly start\u00ading to appre\u00adci\u00adate veget\u00adables and fruit (but loves both pizza and sushi, as a typ\u00adic\u00adal Van\u00adcouver kid does), meal\u00adtimes are often a struggle. On a whim a few months ago, I made fon\u00addue and dis\u00adcovered how pleas\u00adant a peace\u00adful meal where every\u00adone cheer\u00adfully eats what\u2019s in front of them can be.<\/p>\n
Cheese fon\u00addue the way we make it is simple, and reas\u00adon\u00adably healthy, as long as you have no lactose-intol\u00ader\u00adant or vegan people at the table. I slice up whatever veget\u00adables and fruit are around, and every\u00adone has some bread and lots of veget\u00adables or fruit to dip into their cheese. There\u2019s some\u00adthing about the com\u00admun\u00adal dip\u00adping that\u2019s attract\u00adive, the col\u00adours of the veget\u00adables and fruit con\u00adtrast with the creamy sauce that each piece is coated with, and nobody keeps track of just how much every\u00adone eats. <\/p>\n
Cheese fon\u00addue is laugh\u00adably simple and quick to make. I make it in the fon\u00addue pot on the stove (we have a gas stove) so there\u2019s less wash\u00ading-up after\u00adwards, and start to fin\u00adish it takes about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
I always wash and slice the veget\u00adables and fruit first. The staples on the table are an apple, some sug\u00adar snap peas, a bell pep\u00adper (cap\u00adsic\u00adum) or two, some broc\u00adcoli spears, some cherry toma\u00adtoes. If we have oth\u00ader veget\u00adables or fruit that won\u2019t fall off a fon\u00addue fork too eas\u00adily, those go on the table too. A loaf of good hearty bread, or a crusty French baguette, are also de riguer.<\/p>\n
The fon\u00addue itself has 400 \u2014 500 g of grated cheese (about a pound) for four people. We like the clas\u00adsic gruy\u00e8re and emment\u00adal (as well as a mix\u00adture). Brie is good too (cube it rather than grate it, and toss the rind as it won\u2019t melt). Old ched\u00addar is a little too sharp for some, a milder ched\u00addar is bet\u00adter. After grat\u00ading, toss the cheese with about 2 table\u00adspoons of flour. Heat slightly more than a cup of white wine (some\u00adthing with some fla\u00advour that isn\u2019t too sweet, such as riesling, gew\u00fcrztram\u00adiner, pinot gris, or pinot blanc) in the fon\u00addue pot until it bubbles gently. Stir in the grated cheese + flour, stir until the cheese melts and the fon\u00addue is smooth and reas\u00adon\u00adably thick, serve.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve tried lots of dif\u00adfer\u00adent com\u00adbin\u00ada\u00adtions of cheese, wine, and veget\u00adables. Exper\u00adi\u00adment\u00ading is part of the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With a picky four-year-old who loves veget\u00adables but won\u2019t eat much else (she won\u2019t touch pizza or sushi, for example), and an elev\u00ad\u00aden-year-old who\u2019s only slowly start\u00ading to appre\u00adci\u00adate veget\u00adables and fruit (but loves both pizza and sushi, as a typ\u00adic\u00adal Van\u00adcouver kid does), meal\u00adtimes are often a struggle. On a whim a few months \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cFam\u00adily Fondue\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}