I’m havin pokey chops tonite, too, but I’ll probably just broil them with a little salt and pepper and maybe some Coriander. After all that pasta this weekend, I need to have a more lo-cal dinner. Have you ever tried a little A-1 as a basting sauce?
Ya know Tupug, in my entire life I’ve never had even the weensiest taste of A-1. My family was more of a Worcestershire sauce kind of folk. About a year ago I bought a little bottle of A-1 but I haven’t opened it yet. Seems to me this is a good opportunity to fill in a gaping hole in my prepared-sauce knowledge.
At lunch today, my friends and I were talking about taking baths. Everybody 'cept me said you should dry off in the shower because bath mats are not for soaking up the drips. Fine then, what are they for? Huh? Huh?!
Tabasco brand popcorn is yummy, speaking of sauces.
Oooooo!! Have you tried the Tabasco green Jalapeno sauce. It’s positively addictive! <<salivating icon>>
Oh, I just love fairy tales. Now tell the one about how the political parties have our best interests at heart, I never get tired of that one.
Well i do actually, but the rest of the public doesn’t, so I’ve learned to keep quiet about it. I don’t like having my car keyed.
WHAT THE…? Fondue in a microwave? So what did you do with the pot…wear it as a hat?
Fondue
12oz Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese, grated
4oz gruyere cheese, grated
clove garlic, peeled, halved
1-1/2 cups dry white wine (if it’s not dry enough, add a TBSP of lemon juice)
flour
salt
white pepper
nutmeg
1/4 cup cognac
Dredge cheese in flour. Rub inside of fondue pot with garlic and discard (the garlic, stupid). Add wine to pot. Heat until bubbles start to form on bottom of pot. Add cheese a handful at a time, stirring constantly until melted and smooth. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add blast of cognac. Turn on the lava lamp and enjoy.
::damned amateurs…grumble::
And no cats for dipping. Squirrels, maybe. I recommend apple chunks or vegetables, if you really must. But crusty bites of French bread are best. Dip in cheese, then in a dish full of poppy or toasted sesame seeds. Mmmmmmmmmm…
I’ll go! What are we seeing? Something good, please, and for grown-ups. I’ve spent all summer taking the kids to see kid-type movies and I’m sick of it.
I bet Chefguy’s fondue recipe would be extra good with a few toadstools thrown good. Or we could use the toadstools to dip in the fondue. I gotta do something with all these toadstools. 
Or it could be good with a few toadstools thrown in. Though they could be considered to be thrown good if you stood a few feet from the fondue pot and lobbed right in the pot. 3 points for each toadstool that gets in.
-swampbear(combining cooking and improvement of yer bball skills together)
mushroommushroommushroommushroommushroom**…TOADSTOOL!**
I don’t have anything of value to add, but my Monday isn’t complete if I don’t post in Rue’s thread. I will jot down the fondue recipes, tho - and I may even go buy a fondue pot! No, I don’t have one. I think I may have had one some eons ago, but no longer.
In other news, the underlayment is down in the new kitchen, and we got a call today from a computer telling us to call about getting our cabinets delivered, so YAY!
Won’t you all be glad when my remodeling is done and I can talk about something other than my kitchen? I’m so sorry I’m so boring. 
waiting to see if anyone rushes in to assure me I’m not boring…
You are not boring.
You are not boring.
NOOOOOOOO! Far be it from me to introduce grammar into the MMP, but some things I won’t take, not even from a Southerner. “They could be considered to be thrown well (or better yet, well thrown) if you stood a few feet from the fondue pot and lobbed them right in the pot.” It could also be a good throw if they landed in the pot. But it is not, and nothing ever will be “thrown good.” Also, no one ever, ever played good, unless they were Glinda in The Wizard of Oz.
You know I love ya, swampy darlin’–love ya good. 
I thank you for all the good thoughts–please keep them up! Mom is doing okay, but we have one more test, a PET scan, to go through. That will tell us if there is cancer anyplace besides her lung. Hopefully, there won’t be, and Mom will just have surgery to remove part or all of the icky lung. I haven’t quite eaten my weight in chocolate (in one sitting at least), so I’m coping with the anxiety fairly well. Okay, I’m a bit touchy–I yelled for 15 miles (to myself, alone in my car) at a driver that changed lanes without signalling (it was a most damning tirade, if I do say so myself) and I’m crying at any commercial that has kids and/or old people, but really, I’m fine.
Oops, got to go, it’s been thirty minutes since I last had chocolate.
And FCM is not boring. Ever. Well, maybe if she’s using a drill.
Would that be a CAT scan, or just Lab work?
Take it easy on the chocolate, you need to pace yourself if you want to turn in a world-class effort.
Tell Mom we’re all still pulling for her.
Don’t go acting all superior. They’re checking her for polyethylene terephthalate. That stuff can be real dangerous.
- Shibb, proud member of the SDMB, home of some of the world’s nerdiest jokes.
Okay, shibb, I’ll bite…why would they be checking kalley’s mom for beverage containers?
More good puggy vibes for mom, kalley! The human body is a wonderful machine and pretty darn good at repairing itself. Have a bit of semisweet chocolate for me. 
Well, technically PET is just the stuff they use to make the containers, but either way it can be good to have it in your lungs. All those years we thought that smoking was bad for you, it turns out we also should have layed off the bottle!*
*Also used to store dishwashing liquids and anything else you want to be able to see through but have lightweight and strong packaging.
Also, I was at Einstein’s Bagels this morning, and they had a very decadent looking coffeecake that seemed to be adorned with semisweet chocolate chips. I was good and stuck with the bagel and coffee but it was very tempting!
Didn’t you know that fondue pot hats are the epitome of fashion in Alien Vogue magazine this season? I couldn’t let my otherworldly guests eat out of one of their hats! That would be gauche!
Fondue is made in the microwave when you have only one piddly tea candle to warm it up with. Silly!