What on earth could be better than dipping pieces of crusty French bread or crunchy vegetables, mini hotdogs and meatballs into hot, melted cheese?

I was so happy when Boska, a Dutch company responsible for gorgeous and trendy cheese products, send me this amazing tapas fondue set (Yes, you can envy me now. I’l wait).

My guy took a long hard look at the fondue, you know, the kinda look that says “Really?“, frowned and said it seemed like a pretty feminine way of eating. Right. Don’t ever tell me that or I’ll have to prove you wrong—adding beer and adobo sauce helps with that.

I’m happy to say that we’ve had tapas fondue 2nd weekend in a row now. I win!

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
pinch of salt
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/2 can beer (don’t drink the rest just yet)
2 tsp adobo sauce
1/2 tsp worcestershiresauce
1 cup Gruyère (or mix it with another cheese)
1 garlic clove
1/3 onion

Directions:

Is this cute, or what? It has to soak for a while.

Slice the onion and rub the garlic clove all over the inside of the fondue pan. Cut it in half first, or you’ll be rubbing for nothing.

Heat the butter and cook the onion for 4 to 5 minutes. Add the flour, the mustard powder and cook for 2 minutes.

Add the worcestershire sauce and to spice it up a bit, I add 2 tsp adobo sauce. Slowly pour in the beer and stir vigorously.

It’ll be a thick sauce now. But wait… stick with me because it gets even better.

Melt in the cheese! You can use all Gruyère, like I did, or mix it with sharp cheddar or Gouda.

 
If it’s too thick, add some more beer. Aren’t you glad I told you not to drink it yet? Let it simmer for a few minutes, until it’s steaming hot.
 

Season with a little salt to taste and you’re done.

 
Transfer the cheese to the fondue pan, light that little candle underneath and you’re all set.
 

You can dip whatever you like. I like dark, crusty bread best.

 
What’s also really tasty, and this surprised me, is dipping tiny pieces of juicy melon wrapped in Parmaham into the hot cheese. But a wine version fondue works better for that.
 

Cheese fondue feminine? I don’t think so, dude.