This. This is not healthy. This is not good for you.
This is utterly delicious. This is Fondue moitié-moitié. A Swiss fondue, it’s essentially Gruyère and Vacherin Fribourgeois, melted with garlic, white wine and a little Kirsch, served with hunks of bread and steamed potatoes speared on long forks.
Meriel, Lily and I indulged for lunch in Vevey. (Where Laurie proposes to Amy in Little Women. It’s also the home of Nestle, but I’m more excited about the Louisa May Alcott connection.)
There may also have been meringues with the local cream from Gruyère. With a little framboise coulis, bien sur. I can’t say I was expecting a bucket of cream, but it didn’t present an insurmountable challenge.
Then we drove up into the mountains above Lake Geneva/Lac Leman for a little outdoor activity, a lot of pushing Lily on the swings and some sticking my head out of car window like a dog to get maximum amounts of crisp, clean Swiss air.
We got back home around 4pm, and I promptly fell asleep for two hours. That’s what a cauldron of melted cheese with a cream chaser, combined with mountain air will do to you.
I’ve cooked supper, and we are just waiting for Liz to arrive from Geneva airport, because tomorrow it’s all about Meriel’s baby shower — the reason L & I am here in Lausanne this weekend. With luck there will be no cheese at tomorrow, because I have now eaten roughly my year’s allowance.
PS I have heard tell of fudge made from la crème de la Gruyère. This sounds extremely dangerous.
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“fudge made from la crème de la Gruyère”
Please, please kill me with that.
*Burps*, *smiles*
Deliscious…
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Aaah! I lived in Gruyère for a few months, many years ago…best cheese, crème, meringues and cows in all of Switzerland
. Enjoy your weekend in the little land.
Yum! I do like hearing about European travels. David Lebovitz has a very appetising post on the cream from Gruyère (http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2011/04/la-gruyere-double-cream/).
Seriously, this is my fave meal ever. Oh, how I would jump at the chance to eat 3 weeks supply of saturated dairy fat.
at a music festival in switzerland we partook of a wonderful local delicacy… the fondue roll – a hot dog roll with the inside toasted on a hot metal stick (technical term) and the resulting hole filled with fondue cheese. my boyfriend ate two in quick succession. heart stoppingly wicked.
That sounds like a perfect day to me!
Aah Switzerland, cheese fondue & Gruyere – happy memories. Nice post, thank you. Enjoy the baby shower.
This all looks totally heavenly!! x
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Laurie’s proposal to Amy in Little Women, didn’t you just love it? I used to reread it and hope they would stay together.
P.S.- You blog is wonderful!!
I like Lily’s Art Garfunkel hair more than the fondue.
Fondue is the best food ever. But I can only manage one a year and I can’t do it with potatoes. French bread, reblechon and kirsch. Is there a more unhealthy combination in the world. Delish!
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