Monday, January 31, 2011

Come on Over, BUT you Have to Cook Your Own Food

We needed a "wintervention" (Kristen's word) so we decided to get our friends together and make them cook their own dinner AKA have a fondue party! We were out numbered by kids with 8 children and 6 adults, but everyone, kids and adults alike had a blast and went home stuffed and needing stretchy pants.
Cheese fondue...course number 1
Zeke came into the house and announced that he was not wearing a skirt to this party! The kids ate kid food, but jumped in at the end and had chocolate fondue with us.
The little beans.
Course 2 & 3....veggies in tempura and steak, shrimp, chicken and duck in broth. I have to say this was my favorite. The veggies and shrimp in the tempura were AMAZING!
Broccoli in tempura...yum!
Rod got creative and deep fried a pickle.
Dessert time!
For dessert we had strawberries, pineapple, bananas, homemade marshmallows (Thanks Lisa!!!), pretzels and graham crackers. It was heaven and the kids had a blast!
Lisa makes the most amazing homemade marshmallows and I'm not even a marshmallow fan. They are to die for!
Leah decided to dip her hand in chocolate and then sprinkles...delicious!
After all the sugary goodness the kids were wound so they did some dancing to the Grease soundtrack.
How low can you go??
What a fantastic night, thank you all for making it so memorable!
PS...We missed you Castana family!

3 comments:

KristenC said...

We really really really missed you too! I missed both of your fondue nights...crud..Maybe we can take a rain check and do it when Lee gets home! It looked like a ton of fun! It is crazy to think that a few years ago we didn't even know each other and then we became friends. Then I became friends with Jen V and Lisa became friends with you! It is awesome and I love our gang! Thanks for the invite! Glad it was a great night!

The North Country Sweets said...

It was soooooooooooooooo much fun and I'm glad that we all became friends too! So nice to know normal peeps! LOL!
Can you tell I had too much sugar!??

The North Country Sweets said...

by the way...you ARE a marshmallow fan now ;)