Last night the girls (Irish and her sister Irene) and I went out to The Melting Pot for Ladies Night. Every last Tuesday of the month, MP has a special menu and pricing for LN, so we went as a last hurrah before I move back to NC.

Our dinner started off with a spinach, artichoke, fontina and butterkase cheese fondue made with white wine and fresh garlic. By far the best cheese fondue I've tried there of the 3 or so times I've been there. I was a little leery of it tasting too much like spinach artichoke dip at TGI Friday's, but boy was I ever wrong! I think it is my new favorite, actually :o)

The girls had a tropical salad for the next course, and I went with the spinach and mushroom salad (in keeping with the dark green veggie motif).

Our main course consisted of a mojo cooking broth, which was comprised of Caribbean seasoned bullion with fresh garlic, lime and orange squeezed into it. Gaah. Amazing. We each got a plate of raw jumbo prawns, teryaki marinated sirloin, vanilla rum chicken and butternut squash ravioli to plop in the brew, along with mushroom caps, yellow squash, broccoli and new potatoes.

Then, there's the sauces. Oy. There is curry mustard sauce, sweet and sour plum sauce, teryaki sauce, cocktail sauce, mango salsa puree, gorgonzola cream sauce and (the best sauce ever) green goddess sauce which is made from cream cheese, sour cream, parsley, dill and garlic (I think). Anyway, it was amazing.

For dessert we decided on a dark chocolate fondue with crunchy peanut butter mixed in. Yummmm. They gave us strawberries, banana slices, cheesecake, pound cake, rice krispy treats and brownies to dip into in.

Heavennnnn!