A multi-cultural event: Korean earthenware pots, a Swiss recipe and Canadians far from home!
On Christmas Eve, Nate decided to make fondue. It was a fabulous idea--what a cozy way to spend Christmas Eve! Now finding cheese in Korea is difficult. Let me re-phrase that, finding good cheese is difficult, and if you want good cheese, you must be willing to pay for it. It's about 10,000 won, a little over $10 Cnd, for a very small stick. A few stores sell imported goods, and Nate found some Swiss cheese, Australian feta, French wine, French bread and vegetables. I recently purchased two Korean earthenware pots for our Christmas on a Hotplate dinner (more on that to come). Nate balanced them on the metal potholders from our stove and lit tea lights underneath them--he had a vision!
Some fresh rosemary combined with the feta adds a little Greek twist to this Swiss dish.
We made two mixtures of melted cheese. One was Emmenthal with Feta, rosemary, garlic, white wine and lemon juice. The other was just Emmenthal, garlic, wine and lemon juice. It was a lot of cheese. You can't begin to count the calories in a meal like this--it sucks all the pleasure out of it.
So cozy!
We ate some salad to balance things out a little. Nate remembered that when he was in Switzerland, his Swiss homestay made fondue on Christmas Eve, so this might just be our new Korean-Swiss tradition. It' cozy. It's communal. It's delicious. And it leaves lots of left overs to be parlayed into an omelet on Christmas Day--which also happens to be a Christmas tradition.
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