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As I mentioned earlier, the weather in Texas has really been insane. It was high 70’s on Christmas Day! I mean, it hardly ever snows in Texas, \u00a0but people were wearing shorts and flip-flops whilst doing holiday shopping! It was unnerving. Anyway, I woke up today and its finally cold. It was 39, with a low of 22. Found out that it only applies to Fredericksburg and the Hill Country areas in general. The rest of Texas, specially Houston and south, south-east, still have not gotten the memo that winter has started since last week.<\/p>\n

It was perfect day to laze around the house. We had a nice coffee by the fireplace and basically had no plans but to chill for the rest of the day. For lunch I decided to dish out my Christmas left-overs and noted that I still had some opened cheese. It’s fondue time!<\/p>\n

I usually make my fondue using three cheeses in equal parts: gruyere, gouda and emmental. I didn’t have emmental in my fridge so I opted for blue cheese instead. for wine, Ideally, it should be Sauvignon Blanc. I chugged the last drop last night so I had to use Cuvee Blanc.<\/p>\n

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use about 4 oz of each cheese and 1\/2 cup of white wine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grate the cheeses as finely as humanly possible before dropping them to the simmering wine. You can add 1 T butter and 2T of flour just to keep it from getting too sticky. I won’t be needing that for this batch because I am using blue cheese which tend to be runny when heated. Mix well until all the cheese melts. By the way, a fondue pot is ideal, but in this case, my fondue pot is back at the Beast (main house) so I’m using a double boiler. If you don’t have that either, make sure you stir the pot constantly to prevent it from sticking in the bottom.<\/p>\n

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This is three-cheese focaccia. It’s good to use bread that’s a little bit dense. Cut it in cubes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see, we’ve really been “roughing” it in Fredericksburg. I’m using barbecue skewers in lieu of my fondue skewers that \u00a0I left at home. It serves the purpose. After some gulps of the perfectly warmed gluhwein, everything seem right again!<\/p>\n

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