This week we travel out west to Wellington, Colorado!

Wellington was founded in 1902, incorporated in 1905, and named for C. L. Wellington. Mr. Wellington was an employee of the Colorado and Southern Railroad. Even before incorporation, Wellington was a popular stopping location for wagon trains, travelers and military movement between Cheyenne, WY, and Fort Collins, CO.

In 2000, woolly mammoth remains were discovered by a construction crew while digging home foundations. Colorado State University sent a team to carefully excavate and preserve the bones of the extinct animals. Unfortunately ly, upon hoisting the remains out of the excavation site, the tusks crumbled inside of the protective forms that were previously built around them. The skull of the mammoth is housed at CSU. The subdivision where the bones were found named one of its streets in remembrance of the excitement.

I didn’t get far when I opened the cookbook, “Home Cookin’ Wellington Assembly Of God”. Page one held my attention with Hot Bacon Bean Dip and it didn’t disappoint!

Couple of things:

1. It didn’t say what to serve this dip with so I decided on pita crackers. I wasn’t wrong. Fab!
2. This dip is also good leftover cold.

Try this! You won’t regret it!