UTAH

Utah - The Bee Hive State

After a 4 year hiatus we finally did another state.  My kids have always said we had to all be together in order to do a States Dinner.  Every tine we are all together it is for a wedding, graduation, or some holiday.  This year Christmas dinner was Utah!  

The kids and I went to Utah the summer of 2010, with the Lisa, Baylee and Logan Northup.  All 7 of us piled into the mini-van and drove 14 hours from Edmonds, WA to Park City, UT for Sydney's softball tournament.  We had a blast and went to Yellowstone and explored Montana for a few days.

Our Utah dinner was on Christmas Day and included Sydney & Will, Conner & Kaley, Will & Kristy and Melony, Kristy's mom.  We all spent Christmas in Alabama at Conner and Kaley's house.

Utah is famous for Funeral Potatoes, Pastrami Burgers, Green Jell-O and Cherries.  The famous drink in Utah is Dirty Soda.  I decided not to make it, everybody wanted wine with dinner.

The Funeral Potatoes were amazing.  Everyone liked them.  The Pastrami Burgers were surprisingly good.  Conner made them and he is an amazing cook.  I made a Cherry Pecan Salad which I liked and Sydney didn't because she hates arugula.  

My kids and I all hate Jell-O but we do like Jell-O shots.  To keep in the tradition of eating Utah food  we made Green Jell-O Shots, the DanFam tends to bend the rules.  We also made virgin Jell-O shots for Kaley (grandson #3 arrives in June).  Kaley made a No Bake Cherry Cheesecake for dessert, which was delicious.

The meal was wonderful, the whole weekend was so much fun.  I have no idea when we will get to Vermont, but I am going to finish this project someday and create a cookbook for the kids.