Eating on the Road 06-18-12

Eating on a road trip can be very elegant and delicious or something less, like peanut butter and jelly on crackers or restaurant leftovers w/carrots!  These images aren't in order of our enjoyment or location, they are just food.

 
In Kalispell we stayed in a long term suite motel, which may have not been the best place, but it was clean and cheaper than the other places I checked.  We didn't spend a lot of time there and only ate one meal - shown above.  A simple fruit salad w/mayo served with crackers and cheese and hot tea.

 
A much better meal was at Hops (formerly Capers where I ate seven years ago, it is still run by the same people and chef).  Sturgeon encrusted with 'stuff', asparagus and a great risotto.  We went back another night, but they only had one serving left.  We let Ruth McDowell have that since it was her birthday.

 
In Ogden, Utah, we drove several miles up a lovely wooded canyon with waterfalls along the way.  The dinner was good, but we had a laugh at the "fruit cup" which seemed more like a fruit thimble - with a small scoop of orange sherbert on the top.

 
At Zion Nat'l Park we lunched in the car parked in the shade of a parking lot tree.  We ate the leftover duck from St. George and some really dried out carrots I had brought from home.

Just before we got to Zion we stopped at a sort of permanent roadside stand with very nice restrooms.  While I was checking them out, Ruth Powers discovered fresh scooped ice cream.  It was the perfect refresher on a very hot day - I had butter pecan. 

Our best meal was the first one we shared - at the Painted Pony in St. George, Utah.  It was delicious and beautifully presented.  We dined on:
 
>Stilton fritters 

 
>A salad of mixed greens toasted walnuts, apples, blue cheese, balsamic vinaigrette

 

>Bacon wrapped duck - apple stuffing, celery root puree, cider reduction

 
And a side view.  It was a lot of food, but we finished it off for lunch the next day.