VT Garlic and Herb Festival

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Sept 6th, 2009
After the trip to NYC on saturday, we woke up relaxed and late in the morning of Sep 6th... Had some delicious left-overs and headed out to the Garlic Festival in Bennington, VT. $5 entrance fee gets you in and you can taste and feed on everything that you can put garlic in (Can you not put garlic in anything?!). Apart from all the different spreads and dips, the highlight for us was the Garlic Icecream! Great tasting for supposedly 'garlicky' icecream! It was just a regular icecream with lots of garlic bits, but still yummmmy garlicky!

Of all the spreads and cheese we tasted, we really liked a spiced garlicky cheddar. When we went to buy it, we decided to read the ingredients carefully and to our disgusting surprise, it had bacon in it :( Raji couldn't stomach it for a while... But again, the journey continues as always... We were careful to read the ingredients from then on...

Another noteworthy taste was a Maple Liqueur! It was a great tasting liqueur!

Munched on a bunch of garlicky stuff and headed back. Took a detour to see the Moose statues of Bennington's Moosefest and took a spin around Tomhannock reservoir and came back sweet home...

Raji prepared a delicious beetroot pori for dinner to go with US Open Tennis on TV..... End of another day.....

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