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One of my favorite things about being a grown-up is getting to create my own traditions with my family. I\u2019ve personally introduced a bunch of Ganz Family traditions over the years, from tamales on Christmas Day to our over-the-top celebration of May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, to perhaps my family\u2019s favorite tradition\u2014our annual Valentine\u2019s Day Fond of You Fondue.\n<\/p>\n
After working in restaurants for the better part of a decade, I effectively swore off booking a table on any of the notoriously busiest restaurant days\u2014Mother\u2019s Day, New Year\u2019s Eve, Valentine\u2019s Day. I\u2019d rather stay home and cook something I love than fight the crowds.\n<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s something so sweet about celebrating Valentine\u2019s Day as a family, not just a couple. So, every year for the past decade, my family of four has marked the day by making both cheese and chocolate fondue.\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Stephanie Ganz<\/p>\n <\/span> My husband worked at The Melting Pot in high school, and I\u2019m a professionally trained chef, but I\u2019m here to admit that fondue isn\u2019t always the easiest thing to get right. We have had a few fondue-related spats over the years, but once the cheese gets melty and the dipping commences, all is forgiven. From that tension, we\u2019ve learned some valuable lessons: reread the recipe every time, make sure everything is prepared before <\/em>you begin, and then just relax and trust the process.\n<\/p>\n Assembling all of the ingredients and add-ins in advance is particularly crucial. I start by prepping my dippers. Our favorites for cheese fondue include bread (obviously), prosciutto, cornichons, apple slices, and broccoli. For chocolate fondue, we love marshmallows, pretzels, strawberries, cheesecake bites, bananas, and clementine segments.\n<\/p>\n I prep all of the ingredients for cheese fondue so they\u2019re ready to go before I get started. I also like to make the chocolate fondue ahead of time, a trick I learned from my colleagues at Simply Recipes!\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Stephanie Ganz<\/p>\n <\/span> Despite owning a gorgeous Dansk fondue pot, I use an electric fondue pot for Fond of You Fondue. It\u2019s not the most aesthetic choice, but it\u2019s reliable, and I never have to mess with Sterno. Our set came with those long, very pointy fondue forks, which my six-year-old loves to divvy up among family members.\n<\/p>\n I like to get started heating the wine and melting a few handfuls of cheese before summoning my family to the table\u2014it helps ease that will it work?<\/em> tension, so by the time they show up, they\u2019ll be welcomed by a bubbling vat of cheese. Once we\u2019ve polished off the cheese fondue, I clean out the fondue pot and then quickly re-heat my premade chocolate fondue and set out the platter of dippers\u2014et voil\u00e0!\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Stephanie Ganz<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Stephanie Ganz<\/p>\n <\/span> #Cheesy #Family #Celebrates #Valentines #Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my favorite things about being a grown-up is getting to create my own traditions with my family. I\u2019ve personally introduced a bunch of Ganz Family traditions over the years, from tamales on Christmas Day to our over-the-top celebration of May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, to perhaps my family\u2019s favorite tradition\u2014our annual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[527,526,112,339,441],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-celebrates","tag-cheesy","tag-day","tag-family","tag-valentines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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