For anyone who didn’t make it to the last four years of the Little Scandinavian Dinner can get a taste of what they missed at this year’s dinner on Friday, May 23  Old favorites will include cranberry spinach and apple beet cabbage salads, cauliflower au gratin and roasted vegetables, and chicken with caraway and cream. Newcomers to the menu will include Norwegian green rice casserole and Danish apple pork. For a real upscale treat, Hveem said he added salmon in Swedish sour cream and caviar sauce, saying that the fish dishes have consistently been the most popular entrées.

The smorgasbord-style dinner will be held at the Greenwood Student Center on Snow College campus from 6-8 p.m. Food will be guaranteed for the first 300 people, after that it will be as long as food lasts. Last year, Hveem said, about 230 people came for the dinner. The cost of the dinner is $12 for adults and $7 for children 8 and under.

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The various meals to be dished out to the wandering collective at this year’s festival will be both traditional and unusual, and intended to be enjoyed whole-heartedly.

The menu this year includes lunch platters from Aspen Enterprises with Frikadiller meatballs, red cabbage, potatoes, open-faced sandwiches and Dutch oven bread pudding as one of the foreign delicacies to be served.

Jonathan Seale seems to have found an attraction at the Scandinavian festival as well with this being his fourth year returning to serve Cajun food and funnel cakes for the masses.

Scones, Navajo tacos, Piccadilly chips, and Sanpete’s famous barbequed turkey will also be part of the offerings. Empanadas, flaky turnovers from Latin America that have a spicy or sweet filling, will also be available in beef, Chilean and cheese and ham and cheese. The vendor will also be providing chicken strips in Chilean style and fries.

Drinks will be plentiful in the form of fresh squeezed lemonade, twisters, limeade, shaved ice, snow cones, Italian ice, and the Texas Twister Drink, for those who find walking under the hot sun a great excuse for trying some new beverages.

And don’t forget dessert: The choices will range from the classic cotton candy, to kettle corn, rhubarb pie, cinnamon rolls, and Hawaiian fruits. Sweet and sour kabobs will also be served at the Polynesian tent.

In addition to the food booths at the festival, the Ephraim Lions Club and Senior Citizens both will sponsor certain meals on Saturday.

Saturday morning, north and west of the Noyes Building at Snow College, the Ephraim Lions Club will serve its traditional festival breakfast of aebeskivers (pancake-like apple slices) with eggs, bacon and orange juice. The cost is $5.50 per plate.

Another perennial favorite is the barbecued turkey lunch, hosted by the Ephraim Senior Citizens Center. Beginning at noon at the center and lasting until food runs out, the meal will consist of famous Sanpete marinated turkey, potato salad, baked beans, homemade rolls, homemade pastries and bottled water. The center is located at 85 W. 100 North (or 42 S. 100 West).