The Hash House: 14 Days of Love: Day 1

Sunday, February 2, 2014

14 Days of Love: Day 1

Have you even fallen in love with a complete stranger's blog? No, that's only me? Oh well, I'm totally guilty of being obsessed with the Pink Pistachio and her 14 Days of Love {click here to see them}. Her idea is to switch off days February 1-14 with her "husby" and do something sweet each day, but let's get real, Grant ain't got time (or creativity) for that, so I had to go solo on this one.

Day 1: Fondue Day

It started off a little like this...

Cheese Fondue

1 tsp. minced garlic

1/2 cup dry white wine

1 tsp. lemon juice

2 cups Swiss cheese, shredded

2 cups Gruyere cheese, shredded

1/2 tsp. dry mustard

Pinch nutmeg

In a saucepan over medium-high heat, simmer the garlic, wine, and lemon juice. Reduce the heat to medium-low, add the cheeses, and blend well until melted. Add mustard and nutmeg. Keep warm with fondue pot.

Caution: Do not dump the extra cheese down the drain. You will end up with your husband fishing a sponge-looking hunk of cheese out of the disposal...not romantic.

Flaming Turtle Fondue

12 ounces milk chocolate (chips or finely chopped)

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

2 tbsp. heavy cream

1/4 cup caramel ice cream topping

2 tbsp. rum

3 tbsp. pecans, chopped

You can either melt the chocolate, oil and heavy cream in a double boiler on top of simmering water and mix until creamy or in a microwaveable bowl cooked in 15 second intervals and stirred until melted.

Pour melted chocolate into a warm fondue pot.

Pour the caramel into the center of the chocolate mixture. Do not stir.

Add the rum to the pot and ignite carefully using a lighter.

Allow the flame to burn out and stir gently to combine.

Sprinkle with pecans.

Keep fondue warm over low heat.

Because no celebration is complete without the champs.

Since we are veggies around here, we added green apples {not pictured}, carrots, tomatoes, broccoli and Archer Farms bread. My favorite bread is Target bread. No joke.