My husband wants to make funeral potatoes to accompany ham for dinner tonight. Yay for husbands who cook! But why can’t he remember how to make funeral potatoes? Cause funeral potatoes are to Mormons what Chinese food is to Jewish people. No, wait. I messed up that metaphor, but you get the idea.

So my recipe for Mormon Funeral Potatoes (to be served alongside: watery overcooked ham, fluffy white rolls, green jello spiked with carrots and a big sack of iceberg salad with ranch dressing)

Start by rounding up your ten kids and herding them into the basement with your husband’s other (younger) wives. Turn on The Lion King or The Princess Bride. Give the kids nerf guns, water ballons and a pumpenator.

And yes, I’m just kidding.

About the wives.

Break out your 20-year old Kitchen Aid to beat together a big tub of sour cream, 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, and a large brick of cream cheese. Stir in several big hand-fulls of grated cheddar cheese til it looks about right (colby-jack blend will do in a pinch) and two bags of diced (not shredded) hash brown potatoes. Dump gooey mixture into a large cake pan. Sprinkle some more cheese then a bunch of crushed Corn Flakes or Potato Chips sprinkled on top (gotta love the carb-on-carb action).

Bake at 350 until it starts to smell really good and the middle is hot. Or it looks like this: