A family occasion with this Fondue

To understand something I have to go back in time. To the years when I was in college.

One day one of the guys was teasing me at tea time and he was trying to get an audience going. This started with, " hey spook how come you eat like a woman?" Slightly offended I replied, ( trying to be clever and in an exaggerated la di da voice,) " whatever do you mean?"

You don't eat like a man, we like big helpings at certain times, but you eat like my mother and now he started trying to act like a women and pretending to taste something, not liking it and trying something else all in gross pantomime. Whilst this was going on I was pretending to be mortally offended and going all huffy puffy. The rest of the lads were in full swing and having great laughs and passing comments. You eat like a women Spook, a little bit here and a little bit there, at all times of the day but you never have a big helping.

Actually I never had realised this, but he was quite right. One day when I was married my wife wanted to have some people over and didn't want to have a braai, ( barbecue ) but something along the same lines. So I suggested a fondue but along barbecue lines as they are great fun. That's when our fondue was born.

On this occasion we had chicken and steak. It is a bit time consuming preparing. All it entails is cutting up chicken breasts or steak into chunks which will load easily onto the fondue fork. The list of what you can do is almost endless, pork, cocktail sausages to mention just two others.

We also had garlic bread and a normal bread albeit a more fancy one, a salad as a side dressing with choice of sauce.

The wife made her own mushroom sauce as a condiment to the meat and Peri-Peri sauce and garlic sauce, both nice and hot. Then chips or in other places known as french fries.

Now no doubt vegans and vegetarians will be up in arms about this meal. But none of us are vegetarians. The thing to remember is that if you are one. Why not try a Fondue with your own vegetarian sausages and meat. I guarantee you, you will have fun. Go on and try it.

This was finished off with a crusty apple pie and ice cream.