"kilikini" > wrote in message
...
> sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:16:25 -0700, "Maverick"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>> > Your mother must have told you that someday you'll regret
>>> > turning up your nose at her fondue....
>>> >
>>> > LOL!
>>> >
>>> > My kids (10 years+ younger than you) actually remember the
>>> > fondue period of their lives with fondness....
>>> > thank goodness.
>>> >
>>> > sf
>>>
>>> LOL! I didn't say I didn't enjoy the experience but just that it
>>> seemed to take forever for the food to cook. At the time, my meat
>>> had to be basically charcoal before I deemed it edible. Now that
>>> I'm the big 4-0, I find I prefer my beef have the horns knocked off
>>> and knock the dust off it's ass.
>>>
>>> We had fun with fondue but it's not very fulfilling for a kid that
>>> used a lot of energy.
>>>
>> OK. In all honesty, I didn't require my kids to cook their
>> dinner... I just asked them to dip something into cheese or
>> chocolate. I'm still not able to bend my mind around a meat
>> fondue.
>>
>>
>>
>> sf
>
> Oh meat fondue was good! We used a combo of oils when I was a kid, IIRC,
> one of them being peanut. My mom always had beef cubed up, chicked cubed
> and we had shrimp. We'd take one of each, fry it in the oil, wait and
> then
> my mom (god bless her, *I* would never make meat fondue because of all the
> work!) had all these different sauces to dip the meat into. With meat
> fondue it's all about the sauce. My mom would make a variety of about 8
> or
> 9 of them to try. One key was always a sweet/sour, almost teriyaki
> because
> all three were good in that.
>
> kili
>

Your mom was more adventurous in the kitchen than my mom. My only dips back
then were A1 sauce or ketchup. I've since opened her eyes up to other
stuff. I'm not a chef or anything but I keep finding stuff that makes my
family go "Wow!"

But, this is what makes the world go around.

Bret



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