Trader Joe's French Market Chardonnay - go FONDUE!

Trader Joe's French Market Chardonnay 2006 (but really ANY vintage will do).

This is my go-to wine for making traditional swiss fondue.

• 2 cups Trader Joe's French Market Chardonnay
• 1 pound Swiss Emmanthaler Cheese, shredded. But I try to get as much as I can, 1.1 pounds is better than 1. (It goes to "eleven".)
• some Trader Joe's crushed garlic
• some flour

1. Smear bottom of pot with the crushed garlic - just a light layer.
2. Heat the wine (Tailinh, the fatal flaw I never could figure out was that the fondue all goes to crap if the wine is too hot - like if it is sort of boiling - so just heat HOT, but don't boil)
3. Mix shredded cheese with flour - just a few pinches of flour to lightly coat the shredded cheese - but not a full coverage - be somewhat lazy about it. Just don't over do it. I'm not sure what would happen, but that's my advice.
4. Slowly add cheese to wine, stirring in a figure-8 with a wooden spoon.
5. Once all melted, pour into fondue pot and eat... with a Trader Joe's or La Brea Bakery or Panera Baguette. Or any baguette for that matter.

I'm not really claiming this is an authentic recipe, but seriously, it is just a pot of cheese.

It's maybe $4.99/bottle. Drink the leftovers when you're making dinner the next night.