Gilroy. The Garlic Capitol of the World!

This year I got to experience my first Garlic Festival. People drive from all ove the Bay Area for this. Its quite a big deal actually...for Gilroy anyway. It was a hot summers day, something I've been looking forward to for a long time (I've been told its been an unusually cool summer this year). It was warm, we ate good food, and had great company. Luckily Jason's parents live a few blocks from the festival so we didnt have to worry about parking and traffic. It was fun to go with Jason's parents. It was also fun to see all the snow cone/water stands on the sidewalks along the way.

We started our experience with some really garlicy garlic bread, then we had the some frozen lemonade, perfect for a hot day!
Next was the corn on the cob dipped in garlic butter. So good!! Then we sampled the garlic ice cream. This was actually fairly good, believe it or not. It was basically a hint of garlic followed by yummy soft serve ice cream taste. The garlic did not linger as it usually does. Or maybe it was more potent but our taste buds were already consumed with garlic so it may not have been a fair test.
We finished off by having some awesome pesto pasta, garlic cheese steak sandwich and buttery, garlicy sateed button mushrooms. "They were buttonlicious!" (thats a direct quote from Jason). Sound like a lot of food?? Just for the record. we did a lot of food sharing :)

Ruthann, Larry, Jeanna and Jason