Hello chaps and chapesses!
It's that time of year when the mornings are getting crisp and cool, the central heating is getting switched on, and nothing quite matches the satisfaction you get from a comforting, hearty meal. Quite possibly the best time of year to go to a food festival.
I went to my very first food festival on Saturday, in Llangollen. It was a heady mix of cheese, chutney, specialty meats, pate, liqueurs, chocolates, cakes for humans, cakes for dogs (yes, really!), pots, pans and cider, and it was great.
Graeme and I were like children in a sweet shop, going from stall to stall tasting samples of pretty much everything. We ended up buying no less than five different kinds of cheese (because you can never have too much cheese), three jars of chutney (to have with our specialty cheese and biscuits), three enormous pork pies, two bottles of perry, some fancy pork and black pepper sausages, and a top secret gift for Graeme's birthday. Not bad for two hours.
After all that, we needed a Sit Down And A Cup Of Tea, so we headed outside to the fresh air, picking up a cupcake each on the way out (because what is a cuppa without a cake?). On our way in to the festival, we'd been given vouchers for a free doughnut with every hot drink, which I'd forgotten about until we actually got to the tea stand. This meant that we ended up with a cup of tea, a scrummy cupcake, and a warm, sugary doughnut. Each. Sugar rush? What sugar rush?
I love those little cupcake pods, by the way. Glad someone is taking the safe transit of cupcakes seriously.
There was a male voice choir performing outside too, so we had some music while we sat with our cups of tea and more sugar than you can shake a stick at. It was a lovely moment, actually, enjoying the sunshine and the singing, particularly when they sang Calon Lan, which always gives me goosebumps. All in all, I think my first ever food festival experience was a success.
There was a male voice choir performing outside too, so we had some music while we sat with our cups of tea and more sugar than you can shake a stick at. It was a lovely moment, actually, enjoying the sunshine and the singing, particularly when they sang Calon Lan, which always gives me goosebumps. All in all, I think my first ever food festival experience was a success.
Have you been to any food festivals lately?
All of that food looks so delicious and the cupcake pods are genius! There is an annual cheese festival in Denver that I haven't been to yet, hopefully this year.
ReplyDeleteIt was fab, I loved tasting all the different cheeses. Some of the flavours were really unusual - one of the ones we bought has apricot, lime and chilli in it - yummy! A whole festival dedicated to cheese sounds like my dream day out, I hope you manage to go!
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