Time for some gourmet!

There has been talk of games, but not nearly enough gourmet in this blog yet! So let's change that now.

I've been eating some awesome food the past few days... Let's review.

• Friday: For lunch I headed to Pot Belly in the Park Shops to get my delicious chicken salad sandwich on wheat, toasted, with provolone cheese. Mayo, lettuce, tomato, Italian seasoning. And it's hard to go to Pot Belly without indulging in their delicious desserts, which I do far too often. And I admit that. And I will try to change that. Maybe I should make this my last Pot Belly dessert for the next .... six months? We are entering the holiday season, in which there will be a plethora of delicious goodies. Anyway. I got one of their oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. So good. Then later Friday I had my Howl at the Moon Happy Hour. Every Friday from 5-7, Howl offers a small appetizer buffet and that night it was salad, spaghetti, and garlic bread. Pretty good, filled me for a few hours but then around 9:30 the people who remained at the Happy Hour and I went over to a Houston late night staple, Katz's on Westheimer. Um. Yum. I had their Challah French Toast and scrambled eggs with cheese and a Fire Dog. The Fire Dog ended up being for the table to share because I could not finish that ridiculous meal! It was so good. 

• Yesterday for dinner Chris and I joined my sister Carol and her husband Kevin at The Melting Pot for her birthday dinner. Yum!! I had not been there in about a year. That's really as often as I need to go to that restaurant though, once a year. I love how easy going we all were in agreeing on a cheese, broth, and chocolate and yet how different all of our meals were! We started off with one of their seasonal cheese sauces -- brie and bacon. Oh yum. With the pretty basic dippers - granny smith apples, bread, broccoli, cauliflower, and baby carrots. Then on to the salad - Kevin with his Caesar, Chris with his strawberry almond, Carol with her spinach mushroom, and me with my house salad (with Ranch dressing on the side, go me!). Next up was the main event -- the entree course. We went with the Court Boullion broth - just a basic broth seasoned with herbs, it goes with everything. Carol and I had Lobster Indulgence, Kevin had Land & Sea, and Chris had Fondue Feast. And finishing off the decadent meal, we had the Cookies 'n' Cream Marshamllow Dream fondue... Here's their description:  Escape in a world of dark chocolate topped with marshmallow cream flambéed and topped with bits of delicious Oreo® cookies.  So good! I highly recommend fondue for anyone who hasn't tried it. Melting Pot is expensive but it's such a great meal for a special occasion. 

• So as if the last two days weren't enough, that brings me to today. Today I plan to make a Pinterest recipe I pinned awhile ago: Pumpkin Spice cookies - with 2 ingredients! I bought the ingredients yesterday. I also plan to add chocolate chips, because mini chocolate chips make everything better. Chris and I also plan to try out a dumpling place we keep hearing is pretty good, in the Galleria. 

There, I think that hits my gourmet quota for the day. I'll update back on how the cookies turn out -- will they be a Pinterest Fail? And how the dumpling place is.