Birthday Party Week! Let’s Celebrate!

Happy Birthday! This week� we are celebrating Two Moms in a Blog’s first year birthday.

Let’s celebrate with a fondue party!

The party menu includes

• Cheese Fondue – Choose Cheese Fondue, Hot Cheese Chive Fondue, or Swiss Cheese Fondue
• Fondue Bourguignon
• Chocolate Fondue

Today we’ll feature Cheese Fondue recipes

Cheese Fondue

1/4 cup/60 ml butter
3 tablespoons/45 ml flour
1 cup/250 ml milk
1 cup/250 ml provolone cheese, cubed
1 cup/250 ml Watkins Cheese Soup Base, use sauce directions on soup base container
1/2 cup/125 ml dry white wine
1 tablespoon/15 ml Watkins Crab Snack and Dip Seasoning
1 loaf of Watkins Good Tastings Bread

Prepare Watkins Cheese Soup Base as directed on the can using sauce recipe and set aside.

Melt butter in fondue pot at medium heat, then stir in flour. Add milk gradually, cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add soup, cheese, wine and crab dip. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, until cheese is melted.

Make Watkins Good Tastings Bread Mix according to directions and bake in a loaf pan. Let cool; slice into cubes. Dip bread cubes into the fondue using a fork or skewer.

Ingredients can also be mixed in a saucepan and then placed in fondue pot to serve party guests.

Hot Cheese Chive Fondue

1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
4 oz sharp process American Cheese, shredded (1 cup)
1/4 cup dry white wine
2 tbsp milk
1 tbsp sniped chives or green onions
1/4 tsp Watkins Dry Mustard
Crackers or bread cubes

In a saucepan heat and stir softened cream cheese and shredded American cheese over low heat until blended. Stir in dry white wine, milk, chives, and dry mustard. Pour into fondue pot, adding more milk if mixture becomes too thick.

Swiss Cheese Fondue

1 clove garlic, halved
3/4 cup/180 ml milk
1 pound/ 454 g swiss cheese, grated
3 tbsp/45 ml flour
3/4 cup/180 ml dry white wine, warmed
1/8 tsp/.06 ml Watkins Pepper
1/8/.06 ml Watkins Paprika
1 loaf Good Tastings Bread, cubed

Rub inside of fondue pot with garlic. Add milk to pot. Turn temperature dial to 230 degrees F/90 degrees� C or cook at medium-low heat on the stove top. Bring milk to a simmer. Combine cheese and flour; stir into milk using a figure-eight motion. Stir constantly until cheese is melted. Slowly stir in wine. Turn temperature dial to warm or low heat on the stove top. Sprinkle with pepper, nutmeg, and paprika.

Make Watkins Good Tastings Bread mix according to directions and bake in a loaf pan. Let cool and slice into cubes. Dip the bread cubes into the fondue using a fork or skewer.

Eleisia Whitney is a Watkins Home Business owner. She enjoys cooking and baking with Watkins extracts, spices, herbs, and sauces for healthy meals. Eleisia publishes a Watkins Newsletter, “Around the Kitchen Table,” that brings you recipes, cooking and health tips, and contests for free Watkins products. Read the current issue at http://www.everydaynecessities.com/jan15-07newsletter.htm
Visit her at http://www.everydaynecessities.com/ and
http://www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney

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