Just got back from a short trip and hit up the food booths for the Festival of the Holidays. Ate a few things.
The first thing we got was the Tres Leches Rice Pudding. It had been years since I had rice pudding (my mother made it often for our dessert growing up) and this one was very good. The roasted/sugared pumpkin seeds on top were an extra special crunch. Love this.
Next we got the Pork and Vegetable Egg Roll (two in the order) and the Celebration Barbeque Pork with Steamed Rice and a fortune cookie. Both were very good. The Barbequed Pork was a good sized serving and was good for sharing.
We also had the Cheese Fondue in a Bread Bowl. The Marble potatoes looked a lot like olives, so we didn't eat them We also lost one of the carrots to the ground when it fell off while we were cutting up the bread bowl to soak up more of the fondue. Pretty tasty.
One very delicious surprise was the Crespelle di Mele in Italy. This was really delicious. Should have gotten another to share.
The Slow Roasted Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans and cranberry sauce was an entire holiday dinner in a small boat. Very good. But the big disappointment was the Chocolate Pecan Tart. The graham cracker tart base was hard as a rock. Almost needed a steak knife to cut it. Then I failed to see the caramel sauce was whiskey flavored and that just gave a bad taste to the entire thing. There wasn't much caramel sauce on top, but just that little bit gave it that alcohol taste which I didn't like at all.
Finally, we got a Maple Buche de Noel at Canada and that was huge and delicious. We planned to get another the next day when we were there in the evening for Illuminations, but we got there too late and the booth was already closed. So we'll have to go back next year. Maybe three nights instead of just two.
