Fondue Christmas Eve Dinner! (So Far...)

Our fondue dinner was a success!!  We finally got to use our Christmas dishes!

Michael's place setting is the Nikko Christmas Tree.  I bought it last year for our first Christmas.  My place setting is the St. Nicholas Square Snowmen.  I bought them this year for our 2nd Christmas together.  Obviously in this picture I hadn't got the fondue started yet. 

We started with the cheese fondue.  This was supposed to just be our appetizer, but it could have easily been our meal.  The things on my plate there to dip are (top left to bottom right) cauliflower, green apples, broccoli, and carrots.  In the bowl next to the fondue pot you'll also notice a lot of bread that we also dipped.
Michael's favorite part of the meal is the cheese.  My cheese fondue is made from 1 cup Sauvignon Blanc white wine, 1/2 lb Gruyere cheese, and 1/2 lb Jarlsburg cheese (both are types of Swiss).



I bought a cheap bottle of sparkling strawberry wine to go with our dinner.  We broke out the fancy wine glasses and everything!  Michael got me these beautiful wine glasses for my birthday this year.  Sadly, we are down to 3 instead of 4 in the set.  They are very fragile, and when we were washing one of them it broke.  I still love the 3 I have left.  :)

The next part of our meal was the vegetable broth with meat and various dips.  The broth boils and you place the raw meats into it for a few minutes to cook each piece.  You can see in this picture that I have shrimp, steak, and chicken on my plate.  Michael has steak and chicken.  The dips we have are teriyaki, sweet and sour, sour cream/dill, and a cottage cheese dip (all homemade).  Ranch and barbecue sauce are also on the plate.  The broth is made of vegetable stock, green onion, and mushrooms.  Yum!!

That's all we have so far!  We were so full after the cheese and the broth parts of the meal we couldn't fit the chocolate in.  Don't worry!  We're still going to make it tonight!  Our tummies just need a little break.  :)

I know you wanted to know what Harlee was doing through all of this...  So here's a picture of our spoiled baby.  This is her new way of begging.  She lays on the floor right next to the table because she knows that she gets in trouble when she jumps up on the table.  So she stares at us while we eat.  We prefer her to do that, so we reward her.  So throughout dinner she had about a half dozen pieces of bread.  I decided she needed to eat her vegetables as well, so I gave her a piece of broccoli.  She was not impressed.  Michael tried giving her a piece of carrot.  She didn't care for that either.  So I got a brilliant idea to trick her into eating her veggies.  I covered a piece of broccoli in the cheese and gave it to her.  My stinker of a dog, ate off all the cheese and left the broccoli.  She's a smart cookie!  ;) 

Well, that's all I have for now...  Chocolate to come soon!  Talk to you again soon!  Merry Christmas!!!