5 white cheese dip pot Recipes

here are the basics of making an excellent cheese fondue , the proper way (or at least the lindysez way)., use good cheese , i use half emmental swiss and gruyere, grate them up and toss them with some salt and a good amount of pepper. let them sit out at room temp so they melt better . cut your bread (good french bread, but not sourdough) into bite sized pieces making sure to have crust on each piece. let those sit out for a while too so they aren tsp too soft., cheese that you use , you are going to use 1 3/4 cups of a dry white wine, such as a fume blanc, a california sauv blanc (don tsp use a new zealand 1 as most are too grassy) or a pouilly-fume. when you are ready to make the fondue, rub the pot with a clove of garlic (we like garlic, so we leave the clove in, but you don tsp need to); then place over a medium heat and add the wine. when the wine comes to a simmer, start slowly adding the cheese, sprinkling in a handful at a time, allowing each addition to melt (my dad said you always have to stir in the same direction, in a figure 8 motion, it works. if you stir in a circle you will end up with a big glop of cheese in the middle of a pot of wine, the figure 8 is key); keep adding until you have a nice thick sauce, then add a splash of kirsch and a pinch of nutmeg. put over a burner to keep it bubbling, and stir often when you dip your bread., a lb of cheese is enough for 4 people; or more if you are serving other things. and the amounts are guesstimates. i almost always grate too much cheese, so only add as much as you need to get the right consistency ; when you dip a piece of bread into the fondue, you want a nice coating of cheese and for the bread to absorb the wine. that s what it s all about, cheese, wine and bread. so use the best you can of each ingredient. and any left over cheese makes for a mighty good ham and cheese omelet.

white crab meat, mayonnaise, cream of mushroom soup, onion (chopped fine ), cheddar cheese (shredded ), salt, pepper

crushed plum tomatoes , with juice, tomato paste, yellow onion, chopped, garlic cloves, minced, capers, drained, dry white wine, kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper, dried crushed red pepper flakes, flat-leaf italian parsley, roughly chopped, fresh basil, roughly chopped, kalamata olive, pitted and halved, mushroom, sliced, cayenne pepper, frozen cooked shrimp, thawed, peeled and devained, linguine , piccole cooked to al dente (long, thin pasta), italian crusty bread , for dipping in the sauce, grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese or romano cheese, for passing

cream cheese, softened, mayonnaise, sour cream, garlic salt, white wine worcestershire sauce, dry sherry, sliced green onion, crabmeat, drained