Homemade fondue: Better than you might think

The emails:
Catherine: I just checked out your blog for the first time in a while. Awesome!!! . . . Strangely enough, I noticed that you accidently forgot to write about our fabulous night of fondue... :)
Elise: That was awesome. I didn't write about it because the experience wore me out so much that I was too tired to write on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Yale happened on Thursday. That would be a good topic, though... perhaps sometime this week.
Catherine: yes, don't neglect to mention that you will never doubt my culinary skills again!

So, on June 6 the dinner party crew, which grows with each meal, convened to partake in fondue.* I had been craving The Melting Pot but was a little skeptical about homemade fondue. I became even more wary when our chef, Catherine, told me that we would be heating the fondue on hot plates that she'd borrowed from the chem lab at GW.

As you already know, thanks to the emails above, the fondue turned out wonderfully. We had cheese fondue and chocolate fondue and lots of fun things to dip. There were no fondue dishes or fondue utensils but we got by. I wish I had been a little less tired so that I could have enjoyed the evening a bit more, but the food and the company were well worth a late Tuesday night and a tough Wednesday morning. Catherine's culinary skills never cease to amaze me.** I will never doubt them again!***


*While we may each grow in size thanks to the food, we also keep attracting new members. The original members of the dinner party crew met at my fabulous pinata potluck in February. At our first dinner party, there were four of us. At number two, there were five. Fondue was dinner party number three and now we are six.
**Once she hosted a vegan Bastille Day party and the food was amazing despite the lack of animal products.
***I really am serious and I'm not just saying this because Catherine told me to. I keep encouraging her to start a cooking school. Now that would be awesome.