garlic festival 2010

the griffins and i were so excited to eat our way through the gilroy garlic festival, and eat we did!! we decided that to enjoy some of everything we should share and not get full on any one item. here is a list of everything we ate: garlic pesto pasta, garlic bread, beer battered garlic fries, a pupusa, philly cheese steak, a garlic egg roll, virgin pina-colada, garlic thai chicken kabob and a fruit smoothie. the most unique thing i ate was the pupusa, since i had never heard of a pupusa i was intrigued. the shell was made of corn and was served with a little sauce on the side, to us it tasted a lot like enchilada sauce. i felt like this was an el salvadorean version of a quesadilla that meets an enchilada. the only thing lacking for me was the fact that there was no meat and only filled with cheese and green onions. even the no meat factor i thought it was delicious and the corn shell is why i'll try it again. if i had to choose my top three items were the garlic bread, beer battered garlic fries and the garlic egg roll. the bread was so soft and had the perfect amount of garlic & butter, the fries were great on their own but after adding garlic they were superb, and the eggroll was differnt from the norm with flavor bursting in every bite. overall the food was delicious and worth the admission price!

while around walking and eating i spotted a tent from a distance with a large sign. i saw a picture on the sign and i knew exactly what this meant. i rushed over to verify and sure enough the booth was for chef ryan scott. after waiting in line i was finally able to talk to ryan and told him i was the girl he purchased the dessert for at esin. he said he remembered me and called me beautiful.. hahahaha even if he was lying to get a sale, it worked. we ordered one twinkie and one ho ho and he even posed for me to take a picture.

adorable and he cooks..
hello ladies what more could a girl ask for?