Our first fondue of the season. (fondue = from French, fondre = to melt...)
If you are not familiar with this,… it is actually a dish of melted cheese, served in a pot (caquelon) over a portable stove (réchaud) and you eat it by dipping long-stemmed forks with bread into the cheese. Fondue is a great comfort food and the perfect dinner for a cold winter’s night.
The traditional Swiss cheese fondue consists of a mixture of melted cheese, white wine and some kirsch, which is seasoned with a dash of garlic and pepper.
Depending on the region you live, different blends of cheese is used. Very common is the "moitié-moitié" (French for "fifty-fifty"), in which half Vacherin and half Gruyere are added.
I love this traditional Swiss dish and bought a fondue set away back in the '70s! Gone rusty now, though! I also wasn't so particular about putting the Gruyere in but found others that were good! This is a lovely shot nicely organised! fav
You make your fondue meal look so lovely M. We too enjoy cheese fondue at my house and G has been asking recently when we can have one again. Fabulous processing and comp on this. :)
@steveandkerry Maybe it is in the DNA, when you are Swiss. ;-)
Of course I do not really know, why you don’t feel well after eating fondue. My idea is that you have a form of lactose intolerance. In most of the adult European population the intestinal epithelia produces still enough lactase, so that milk, dairy products and hard cheese are tolerated when eaten in moderate doses. Various causes can reduce the enzyme activity: So consuming dairy products can cause nausea, abdominal cramps, bloating and diarrhea. Many people-tolerated small amounts of lactose, but no fondue. This intolerance is not an allergy, it makes you feel sick and uncomfortable, but not dangerous. Like it would be, if you are allergic to nuts, cellery, soy fish,...
Oooooh mmmmmm!!! I adore fondue!!! I haven't done a lot of cheese ones even though I just love them (and cheese and general), as we usually do meat fondue about twice a year - but cheese, mmm!! This is a lovely capture, beautiful composition, and I love your use of SC as well.
Sounds and looks extremely yummy....you have fabulous comfort foods over there where they are absolutely needed when it gets really cold in the wintertime!
December 18th, 2015
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Of course I do not really know, why you don’t feel well after eating fondue. My idea is that you have a form of lactose intolerance. In most of the adult European population the intestinal epithelia produces still enough lactase, so that milk, dairy products and hard cheese are tolerated when eaten in moderate doses. Various causes can reduce the enzyme activity: So consuming dairy products can cause nausea, abdominal cramps, bloating and diarrhea. Many people-tolerated small amounts of lactose, but no fondue. This intolerance is not an allergy, it makes you feel sick and uncomfortable, but not dangerous. Like it would be, if you are allergic to nuts, cellery, soy fish,...