Sauces for Fondue???

[Kristi]

I am attending a fondue party this week and have volunteered to bring the sauces for the meats--chicken, shrimp, beef. I have a soy sesame sauce, a Thai chili sauce, as well as a couple of yogurt-based sauces (cucumber, walnut, etc.) chosen. Any ideas for other sauces that may be tasty with meats???

[lisad]

Kristi--
Our October issue has a great fondue story. I don't think it's on the newsstand yet, though. We'll be posting the story here in a couple of weeks, but that won't help you ... if you have a fax number, I can fax recipes to you. Let me know.
Lisa D, Cookinglight.com

[Kristi]

Lisa, that would be wonderful! My fax number is 214-360-1661 (attention: Kristi Zarmakoupis). I can't wait to see the October issue!! Our group should have waited another month to do the fondue thing! Thanks so much for your help...

[lindrusso]

Originally posted by MrsReber:
Aw, man, now I have to buy a fondue pot, too?? My mom used to always make fondu for us- the swiss cheese sauce with Italian or French bread to dip in it. We loved it as kids- mom cooked many things out of the ordinary, but we thought they were normal. We used to especially love to steal each other's bread and try to knock it off each other's fondu fork!

Tee hee! Your post made me laugh. I also remember similar fondue "battles". My mom made a really easy fondue using cream of shrimp soup. We fought over who would get what color fondue fork and then we'd fight over the couple of tiny little shrimp that came in the soup!!

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[JodiL]

Ok, now I feel obligated to post my "stupid fondue question":

I have a fondue pot that came with this little metal dish with adjustable holes in the top that you place under it for the sterno . My question is that the sterno already comes in little cans that don't fit in the metal dish that came with my pot. Are you supposed to pour the sterno fuel into the metal dish? If I just use the sterno can then I can't adjust the flame and whatever I'm cooking gets too hot.

Boy when I read this it sounds even worse than I thought! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif

[Kristi]

Crystal, a couple of the sauces I plan to use are just bottled and a couple are Cooking Light Recipes which are actually on the web--Soy Sesame Dipping Sauce and Creamy Yogurt Walnut Dip (kind of a Turkish-type dip). I'm also making Tatziki...2 cups of low-fat yogurt strained through a cheesecloth for about 12 hours, then add 1/4 cup grated cucumber, 1/4 cup grated onion, 1 tsp. olive oil, and a dash of garlic powder, salt and pepper. Of course, you can add more cucumber, onion, etc. to suit your taste. (I typically like a slightly stronger taste.) Can't wait to see the suggested recipes in October!

[mightyh]

teriyaki sauce is one of our favorites, though we usually just buy it ready-made.

[Danielle]

I went to a fondue restaurant in Seattle with my husband and some friends, and we had a great time! For our main course we had shrimp, salmon, chicken, and beef. The sauces they served for dipping included horseradish (for the beef), a cream cheese, sour cream and chive sauce (a house speciality that tasted yummy on everything!), sweet and sour sauce, mustard sauce, shrimp sauce, and a sweet plum sauce (tasted great on chicken and salmon).

The dessert was the best! Had our choice of white chocolate, dark chocolate, or milk chocolate sauce and dipped pound cake, marshmallows, cheesecake, and fruit. We registered for a fondue pot for a wedding gift because we liked the chocolate fondue so much. Have indulged once since we received it, and it was heavenly!

RunnerKim, we have an electric fondue pot by WestBend. The temperature can be adjusted very easily, and it works great!

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[Missi]

I am soooooooo excited about the fondue section in the October issue!!!!! I found a fondue pot at a yard sale recently. It had never been used and was an original from the seventies. It is even that great green color!! Long live the 70s!!!!!

[sooz]

My very first entry-this is so cool! Fondue was an easy and affordable way to entertain when I was dating my husband in the late 60's-we only had to make a salad and bake some potatoes and voila! We always used store bought sauces--BBQ, even tartar sauce for beef fondues. Now I have become much braver and would make from scratch--looking forward to Cl in Oct!

[jillmayre]

The sauces that I have enjoyed with beef fondue: 1. BBQ sauce...use your favorite
2. the Lipton California Dip recipe -- can be made lighter with low-fat or fat-free sour cream 3. a Bearnaise sauce. I no longer have the recipe but I am sure you could find a easy one on the Internet.

[Grace]

Oh boy, Oh boy, Oh boy!!!! I'm like a little kid! I can't wait for the October issue now!!!! Gosh, I think I need a life?? This is the highlight for me? My new issue of CL??!! Oh well...could be worse I guess! Oh please hurry and send those new issues out!!

[CrystalB]

I am soooo excited for the October issue now!!! I got a fondue pot for Christmas and I haven't used it yet!! Yeah!!!!

Kristi- Unfortunately I don't have any recipes for you but would you mind posting your recipes?? They sound great!

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[MrsReber]

Aw, man, now I have to buy a fondue pot, too?? My mom used to always make fondu for us- the swiss cheese sauce with Italian or French bread to dip in it. We loved it as kids- mom cooked many things out of the ordinary, but we thought they were normal. We used to especially love to steal each other's bread and try to knock it off each other's fondu fork!

[RunnerKim]

Fondue has always been a holiday tradition in my house! Used to be Christmas eve when I was a kid but somewhere along the line it got moved to New Year's eve (probably less hectic then). I've continued the tradition with my husband.

We mostly do a cheese fondue but if there are enough people will do a meat/oil fondu as well.

I can't wait! What kinds of fondue pots do people have? Aren't there 2 different kinds - double boiler style and then single pot. I've been looking all over for one that plugs in (vs. sternos) like my parents have.

Kim

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[MrsReber]

Lindrusso- I'm glad we weren't the only children in battles with fondu forks! I bet most of our friends didn't even know what fondue was! They'd probably be appaled at the way we ate it, too! I love the sauce my mom used to make. It was very simple and I even started making it when I was 15 or 16. It was just grated swiss coated in flour and it was melted in wine- might've been another ingredient or two, I don't remember exactly, but it's been so long. She'd buy a loaf of Italian bread and cut it into sqaures for us. One of my favorite dinners (cheese freak). I wonder if my husband would go for it?

[BeckyM]

To JodiL:

That's not a stupid question!!! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif I have a fondue pot like that too, as do my parents (they got it for me). You're supposed to buy Liquid Sterno, which just comes in a big can -- not the little cans that you light individually. I've had problems finding the Liquid Sterno, so I kinda forgot about doing fondue and haven't looked for it in years. My parents still do it fairly often (like someone else, it's a holiday tradition for our family), and they buy the Liquid Sterno at a hardware store. I don't know if you could actually pour sterno out of the little cans -- I've never tried. Good luck!

Becky

[JodiL]

Whew! I was getting a little worried when no one responded to my question. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

Thanks for the help, Becky, I'll have to look for the liquid sterno. We love fondue but it was such a hassle because we couldn't regulate the temperature that we stopped making it.

[RunnerKim]

Thanks Danielle,

I was able to find it on their website.

It hasn't happened for a few years, but part of the enjoyment of fondue is the leftover cheese mixture - its great in omelets! Not often we have any leftovoer though.

Kim

[newsomz]

I had a foundue party last winter and I made about five sauces to go along. The one people liked most was a Green Goddess sauce from my Fannie Farmer cookbook. People also liked the home made BBQ from that same cookbook. I also made a ginger soy sauce that was really good.. I liked the flavor the ginger gave to the soy sauce. Hope you enjoy your party. They are tons of fun!

[KristaMB]

RunnerKim,

I saw an electric pot at Target not too long ago. While I have the old fashioned kind, my friend has an electric one. I like hers so much better than mine, and it's much easier to use.

[bookworm]

This is a question from the fondue illiterate. Do you use the same pot for the different sauces? I've only seen steak cooked in oil in a fondue pot with dipping sauce on the side.