Marinara Goat Cheese Fondue
Tonight, for dinner, I made my very favorite appetizer. All for me. Recently, I had dinner out with “the girls.” I thought I had made this clear in the past, but apparently not… The issue of the appetizer came up. Would we share. Umm, no. Because this IS my dinner. I get this and a small salad and I’m golden. I don’t know if it’s the smooth creaminess of the goat cheese I love most, or the way it perfectly blends with the tomato sauce, or maybe it’s the light, honey sweetness of the toast points… All I know is it is my absolute favorite meal ever!
Marinara Goat Cheese Fondue (the easy way)
1 cup marinara sauce (I use Newman’s Own)
1 or 2 oz. Goat cheese
Baguette
Honey
Place marinara sauce in a microwave safe bowl and cover loosely. (I usually just put a dessert plate over the bowl.) Microwave on medium-high (70%) for approximately 90 seconds. This completely depends on the strength of your microwave. Point is — get the sauce hot. (You can do this on the stovetop, too, of course!)
Slice baguette into 1/2 to 1″ thick slices. Toast in oven. Spread honey on each piece of toast.
Take marinara from microwave and add cheese.
Dip toast into fondue.
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April 5th, 2007 at 3:40 am
You are just totally determined to lead me astray. Now I want a tasting platter of goats’ cheese. And no, there are no kosher for Passover goats cheeses in Australia. How on earth am I going to get even?
April 5th, 2007 at 7:00 am
You can tempt me with chocolate. I have a complete and utter weakness for it. Now I’m curious, which cheeses are kosher?
April 5th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
The Fresh Market has goat cheese crumbles, which melt so incredibly well.
I totally had pasta with marinara and goat cheese for dinner last night. MM mm good.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Oh does that sound delicious! I need to bookmark this one for sure!
April 5th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Wow. If only I weren’t so tired, I’d put my butt right back in the car to go get some goat cheese to make this.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Cheeses made without rennet are often kosher - the way to tell, though, is to look for a kosher symbol or stamp (and they vary) on the cheese packet. Kosher for Passover, though, needs special supervision - it’s not just the method of manufacture and the ingredients, it’s what else is made on the premises. Not a skerrick of anything leavened is allowed. Vegemite can be kosher, but it can never be kosher for Passover (I love telling US friends that vegemite can be kosher - they all hate the stuff
).
I don’t know a single goat’s cheese in Australia that’s kosher for Passover, and to be honest, outside Passover I don’t look to see - I like my gourmet cheese far too much for that!
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:13 am
I really love goat cheese desserts, their are awesome. If I have guests, I just make goat cheese deserts and they love it. Are there any other good uses for goat cheese?