{"id":944,"date":"2011-07-07T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2011-07-07T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:35:14","slug":"melting-pot-but-better-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"melting pot &#8211; but better-er :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week my <a href=\"http:\/\/ladybugwife.blogspot.com\">wife<\/a> decided to surprise me with a dinner she\u00a0thought-of more-or-less on-the-spot.<\/p>\n<p>We are both big fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/01\/03\/melting-pot\/\">The Melting Pot<\/a>. Tuesday she popped out to Kroger and bought a small package of potatoes, some various broths, and an absolutely <em><strong>AMAZING<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0meat rub spice mix. Also she found some strawberries (on sale &#8211; how cool), and &#8220;melting chocolate&#8221; (no idea how this is different from &#8220;normal&#8221; chocolate, but whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to me while I was finishing work for the day, she was busy in the kitchen mixing-up a broth to boil the veggies in, and eventually cook some filet we had in the freezer (which she had also been thawing &#8211; again on the sly in the kitchen while I was working).<\/p>\n<p>Her approximate recipe for the main course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 small chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>3 small vegetable broths<\/li>\n<li>veggies per preference (ours were carrots, mushrooms, and potatoes)<\/li>\n<li>small can of pineapple chunks &#8211; including the juice<\/li>\n<li>spice-rubbed filet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Green goddess (Melting Pot&#8217;s &#8216;signature&#8217; spread):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 C sour cream<\/li>\n<li>&gt;1\/2 C cream cheese<\/li>\n<li>chopped chives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dessert:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>~1 C melting chocolate<\/li>\n<li>splash of Southern Comfort (flambeed to remove alcohol content, but leave flavor)<\/li>\n<li>fresh strawberries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cooking method:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>heat broth to near-boiling (I\u00a0think\u00a0this is &#8220;simmering&#8221; &#8211; but I&#8217;m not positive on the technical term)<\/li>\n<li>add veggies<\/li>\n<li>after\u00a0veggies\u00a0are between &#8216;hot&#8217; and &#8216;tender&#8217;, add rubbed filet chunks (15-25 minutes, depending on heat and preference)<\/li>\n<li>remove from heat 2-3 minutes later and serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dessert method:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>melt chocolate in microwave- and flame-safe container<\/li>\n<li>add splash of SoCo<\/li>\n<li>flambe<\/li>\n<li>dip strawberries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was an awesome dinner &#8211; not to mention less expensive than Melting Pot by, oh, 70% &#8211; and I was very sad I got too full to finish all of it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, babe!<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; LivingSocial had a <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/fbOsjFF\">Melting Pot special<\/a> this week (which we have taken advantage of). Not sure if it&#8217;s still available, but check it out &#8211; it&#8217;s half off \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE@201107071203* the LivingSocial special has been sold out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week my wife decided to surprise me with a dinner she\u00a0thought-of more-or-less on-the-spot. We are both big fans of The Melting Pot. Tuesday she popped out to Kroger and bought a small package of potatoes, some various broths, and an absolutely AMAZING\u00a0meat rub spice mix. Also she found some strawberries (on sale &#8211; &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=944\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">melting pot &#8211; but better-er \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,31,38],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-personal","category-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}