We're so Utah, just ask the Cafe Rio Pork

I didn't want to do it.

I didn't want to turn into one of them.

But I have to admit

it ain't half that bad.

I'm a Utah Mormon blogger.

Well, if you can still call me a blogger.

Since I don't really blog anymore.

I took the following photo yesterday.

It pretty much tells the story.

I set up the photo myself

on MANUAL settings

because I have just loved my photography class.

You can't be a good Utah Mormon lady

unless you are are enrolled in some kind of class,

right?

And you definitely can't be a good 

Utah Mormon mommy blogger

unless you know how to photograph.

I took the photo after running into the shot.

My camera was supported by a boulder

on the opposite side of the trail.

And look at us.

We are so cute.

Notice my Utah fashionable hat.

And my frame 35 pounds lighter

because I run every other day.

My kids are perfection.

Even my dog is perfection.

My husband is the bomb.

I love him so much,

and he's perfection too.

Just for me.

Now, I wonder how many people

I've managed to annoy?

What I don't want to tell you is

I set up the picture to hide my fat butt.

We went to the canyon

on a Sunday

NOT in our Sunday clothes

just to get a picture of the leaves.

Notice the photo

is lack of any oranges or reds.

My kids have rebelled against

family bike rides in the same canyon because

I made them ride all the way

to Bridal Veil from our house once.

Apparently 20 miles round trip is a bit much.

O.k. I don't think its that far,

but still,

I can't get them to want to go.

I threw the hat on because I took a photo

earlier that day at church

and my hair was atrocious.

Is that the right spelling of 

atrocious?

I guess I have a ways to go

to be the perceived perfect Utah Mormon.

I think they all probably have a ways to go too.

I will however share with you a recipe

that screams Utah.

It's Cafe Rio Pork

and it's so delicious.

I made up the recipe

because I couldn't find one that was good enough.

Yeah, I'm an awesome cook.

What can I say?

I lived in the South for 10 years.

It gives me the advantage.

I also like to keep it simple in the kitchen.

Throw the following ingredients into a crock pot.

3 pounds pork roast

2 cups diet Pepsi

About 1 cup and a handful of brown sugar (just go with it)

1 cup water

2 cubes Chicken Boullion

3 Tablespoons minced garlic

1/2 cup dried onion

1/3 cup taco seasoning.

Cook for 6 hours.

Shred the pork into the liquids right inside the crockpot.

Cook another 2 hours.

Serve over hot fresh tortillas from Costco.

Try the recipe.

And come back and tell me how amazingly Utah I've become.