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Cheese & Chocolate Fondue Party
Matt and I host monthly potlucks for the Houston Heights Time Bank. This year we made a new year’s resolution to: a) make the potlucks more innovative and interesting and b) to expand the guest list by inviting some of our favorite friends.Our first one of the new year was a cheese and chocolate fondue party. Mmm, mmm, good!
Making cheese fondue from scratch can be quite expensive, so we opted for a pre-packed kind from Whole Foods. Matt picked it up on his way home from work, and he reports that it cost something like $6. What a deal! People complimented the cheese fondue, so I will … Read More
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Scrabble Slam
I am a lover of games, and I have recently been introduced to a new one: Scrabble Slam.It goes a little something like this: The dealers makes one four-letter word using the letter cards (such as love, slap, ooze, etc.) and then deals the rest of the cards among the players. When the game starts, each player tries to add a card to change the word. For example, if we started with “love,” someone could add an “i” over the “o” to make “live.” Then “live” could be transformed into “lice” with the addition of a “c.” By the time you dig through all your cards and find … Read More
