BoykinsOnTheRoad
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Recently bought a small non-electric fondue pot and looking for yummy ideas especially for camping. Anyone use a fondue pot while camping or otherwise??
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Heathertee2002
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I've made a chocolate fondue that was a smash hit as a dessert following a backyard bash I gave years back. You dip all sorts of good things in melted chocolate: Big strawberries with the stems on, chunks of fresh pineapple, marshmallows, chunks of Snickers bars, pretzels, etc. Whatever you like. I had melted milk and dark chocolate, and side dishes of sour cream, chopped nuts, shredded coconut, and Jimmies. Very good-quality white chocolate (such as Lindt) would be good too.
Too high heat or too much juice on the fruit will seize the chocolate, so be sure the fruit is pretty dry and your heat as low as it'll go, or just melt the chocolate and keep it warm over hot water.
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Quote:Recently bought a small non-electric fondue pot and looking for yummy ideas especially for camping. Anyone use a fondue pot while camping or otherwise??
You can buy Cheese Fondue already prepared. Squeeze out of bag heat and go. Sounds like an easy camping meal. Add some crusty bread, cooked brocolli florettes, mini-potatoes and you have a good meal..... if you like cheese. Never drink milk with cheese fondue!! One bag of Fondue will feed two people.
Chinois Fondue is also great. It starts out as beef broth and all the meat is cooked in the broth. The meat is a special cut you can get from the butcher. The meat is served with assorted dipping sauces. At the end you serve the broth as a soup.
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BoykinsOnTheRoad
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Wow, thanks. The chocolate with fruit does sound great. Definitely have to try as I am a chocoholic!
Will have to try the cheese fondue and the beef sounds like what I am looking for in making a meal out of fondue.
Thanks for the suggestions!
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Heathertee2002
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My daughter and son-in-law who live in Ben Lomond, CA, took me to a restaurant in Sarasota where only fondue is served. Boiling broth in the middle of the table, and platters of raw meats or seafoods of your choice to spear and cook in the broth. I think you can also have oil if you prefer fried. I ordered the wild game platter; elk, antelope, venison, alligator, buffalo, served with an array of little dishes with dipping sauces and condiments; very good and lots of fun!
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BoykinsOnTheRoad
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Thanks, Heather. Sounds good. Only time I ever had fondue was when I visited my aunt and uncle in Delaware at age 18 (loooong time ago!). We had beef and hot oil, I believe. Can't remember what else. The broth seems a good healthy choice but I'm sure the oil would be rather tasty. I do remember it was all a lot of fun to cook our own food.
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Sounds like the restaraunt that we went to in MPLS. called the Melting Pot. It was so good. We had the big night out dinner. Oh it was sooo good.
Check out the menu on their website and maybe you will get some ideas.
Their Martinis were the bessst.
http://www.meltingpot.com/ Then find Mpls mn site under locations and menus. You will have to click on the name again to get the menu to come up.
I would go back again just for the deserts
Have fun fonduing we use to fondue every Christmas with the family, my mother said it was the only way to keep us at the dinner table for longer the 15 minutes.
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BoykinsOnTheRoad
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Thanks for the link to the Melting Pot restaurants! Checked out some locations and we'll be in Myrtle Beach next month. If I can convince the DH, maybe we'll give it a go. Looks wonderful!
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A chocolate fondue is a great way to meet people. Strawberries were in season, so I picked up a flat of them. I set up the fondue pot outside, on the patio, and invited the neighbors (National Forest campground). Yummm. Everyone showed up except the guy that wouldn't come if he couldn't bring his guns.
I had a lot of strawberries and a lot of chocolate, so we all hung out for awhile and chatted. People brought their own chairs and it was great fun.
Non-chocolate fondue is best done with fewer people, but is also great. A London Broil makes great cubes for fondue. 
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BoykinsOnTheRoad
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Thanks for the tips. I will be camping with a large group Memorial Day. Thought about the chocolate/fruit fondue for fun and marshmellows for the kids (smores!). Might have to get a bigger pot!!
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