Rylan's fun weekend
Written on December 12, 2005 by Kevin.
Only in Arizona would anyone celebrate a tamale. This weekend, my wife and I took Rylan to the Tamale Festival. They had about 50 booths, some selling food and others giving away freebies. They had numerous groups selling tamales and I assume they wanted you to buy from each of the booths to determine who made the best tamales. We didn't try any of the tamales but we got a bunch of freebies. Mostly Mexican dessert foods which unfortunately aren't my cup of tea. We did get a chance to try some churros which turned out pretty well. They had a live band to blast out Rylan's ears however he did great, and slept through it all. I got a chance to use the Snugli the entire time and was surprised to have no back pains afterwards. The only person to comment on Rylan, was a bum (go figure) and I think she was more focused on getting her fix rather than Rylan.
Overall we had a good time until we had to leave due to a work issue (sure is fun being on call). Rylan and I spent the next hour at my workplace fixing a server issue.
So far churros are the only Mexican dessert that I have tried and liked, the others need more sugar. Have you tried a filled churro? OMG they are so good.
Here is my visit TX for churros/sweets plug:
If you are ever in TX go to San Antonio's Mi Tierra (http://www.mitierracafe.com/)
which is open 24-7. San Antonio also has what I like to call a 'week of eating' with different celebrations involoving booths of Mexican foods and drinks (with some American items like turkey legs). The 2 most popluar are: Oyster Bake and NIOSA (http://www.fiesta-sa.org/).
Although I say the best sweets in TX are the fruit kolaches from the Czech stop(http://www.czechstop.net/home.asp)
Written by Jessica on Dec 13, 2005 02:22 AM
When I was a kid, I would go upto Seattle for the summer and they had a big event called the Bite of Seattle where they had a bunch of booths of food and freebies. So many times now do I wish that I could take my wife and Rylan there. Its great to see such a vast variety of foods at those types of events. Its nearly impossible not to have a good time.
Written by Kevin on Dec 13, 2005 07:28 AM
That is a neat name for a variety of local food booths. You should take your family when Rylan is older, maybe in his teens when he will be growing and eating a lot.
It's like an outdoor buffet which works well for everyone's tastes.
Written by Jessica on Dec 13, 2005 11:28 PM
2nd Annual Los Angeles International Tamale Festival
Nov. 10-12-2006.
Written by george on Jun 2, 2006 02:35 PM