I’ve managed to screw up both tags and categories, which is why you don’t see either on the site right now. I’m going to go through and fix that, but this week is super busy (two friends coming into town, yay!), and it might not get done until the end of next week.
What I’d like is for every single post to fit into a category, yet many of them (like this one) aren’t easily defined into a nice and tidy category. I mean, what would you put this one in? Notices You Need Never See Again? Things Totally Unimportant To Intention Of Blog? Mentions Of Fondue?
Speaking of work on the blog, there are THREE NEW PAGES!
- I wrote down the plan to get in shape and lose weight here.
- I made a page with a table of my progress here.
- I put Ye Olde Hande BMI Charte here, along with my colorful commentary.
All of these pages are accessible from the navigation tabs at the top of the site.
"GET YER FORK AWAY FROM MY STRAWBERRY!" When fondue friends become fondue frenemies.
Oh, and speaking of those two friends – we’re going with one, along with her family, to The Melting Pot tomorrow night. It’s a fondue restaurant, and it’s not just cheese and leisure suits. There’s three courses – cheese of course – but then meats and oil, where you dip meats in batter and dip that into hot oil. The third course is, GET READY FOR IT: chocolate.
Oh sorry, was I saying something? Right.
CHOCOLATE FONDUE.
I’m guessing that three pound weight loss from last week was totally temporary. Ha! Seriously though, I’m doing great with my goals for this week, so I’m not worried, even if I do end up gaining a couple pounds. The Melting Pot isn’t a regular thing, which is good, because if it were, all you guys would hear about were fondue recipes, and I know how much you’d hate that.
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You can get broth type things for cooking your meat in instead of hot oil. Then it’s “healthy”. :)
Actually, best if you have a large enough crowd for more than one burner and then you can get oil on one and broth on the other.
Broth! But then how do you get your batter crispy? Oh I’m sorry, you said HEALTHY. No wait, you said, “healthy”. That’s entirely different. :)
We’ll have eight people total (6 adults and two kids). Maybe we’ll get both. I want to go with you and Llyra and Jojo and our tribe, too, if we can find babysitters!
Hey there.. love LOVE The Melting Pot! Oh hey, I love the idea of summarizing weight loss each week and posting info. I’m SO stealing that idea. Hope you have a great time tonight.
I want to go, too!
But I will be saying “Get that strawberry away from my chocolate!” instead. (when people go to a fondue restaurant with me, they are required to spoon out chocolate and drizzle it on their strawberries, rather than dipping their strawberries. It’s a shame, really.)
I’ll be that person who insists on having one pot that’s gluten free. :) Between Llyra and I, we’ll make sure dinner at the Melting Pot is challenging, yet fun.
I’m with Sonja. Get the Coq au Vin instead of the oil and batter crap.
With the Coq au Vin, you don’t get batter. You just cook the meats in the broth/soup naked. The veggies are great that way too. It’s healthier, and I think it tastes a heck of a lot better. But then, I don’t really care for deep-fried stuff in the first place, so YMMV.
They have many variations of chocolate fondue. I like the Baileys one myself. *grin*
Have you been there before? Kinda sounds like it. I think we’ve been there twice in Portland and I’ve been a handful of times in Seattle. It’s not the caloric load. keeping us from going..you actually eat very small portions. It’s the time and money. 2 hours usually, and if you get out the door for under $50/person you’re doing better than we do. So not in the budget anymore.
Jona – Thanks! It was really fun.
Bummer, I’ll have to spoon out chocolate! Muahaha! I would rather do it that way, I get more with each bite….
Lisa – We hadn’t been to the Seattle one in ten years, but we’d been to the Portland one. And yeah, I thought I’d read the prices and yet was still shocked at the bill. Definitely something I would only do once or maybe twice a year at most. But oh my gawd, so freaking delicious.