I’d planned this to be a blog about Sweet Sundays, and the Culinary and Wine demonstrations we attended today but it’s late and I’m too tired to finish writing about all of that, so for now I’m just going to do Eating Around the World – Round 4 instead. That’s what we did tonight with Catherine after we met her along with several other RADP friends (Chad, Kerry, Kim, and Rob) when we were leaving the Festival Center after the last demo we attended.

It had been another very warm day, but it had cooled off nicely by 6:00 and was pretty comfortable. And the park wasn’t very busy at all – most of the food booths had either no lines or very short lines, except for Germany – not sure why Germany’s line was so long!

Anyway…since we were coming from Future World we started at Argentina, where Lee got the Beef Empanada. He enjoyed the empanada, but he said their beef skewer, which he sampled the other day, was “great”.

At the Cape Town booth Lee tried the Seared Beef Tenderloin with sweet potato puree and mango barbecue sauce. He said that was really good – very reminiscent of something you’d get at Boma. I tried the sweet potato and the sauce, and they were both very tasty.

At Australia we tried the Seared Barramundi (that’s a fish) with blistered cherry tomatoes, arugula and lemon oil. A little bland…the fish didn’t have much flavor. Though it was nice to have something that wasn’t beef, pork, or chicken!

We also had the lamb chop with red wine sauce and Murray River sea salt. That was pretty good, though it’s rather a small serving for $5.50.

From the Hops and Barley booth both Catherine and Lee had beers – they were pretty happy about that. 🙂

I tried the Cosmo Slush from France – there was a line there, but it moved quickly. I enjoyed that – it’s VERY red, though!

Both Lee and Catherine had something from Canada, but it was things we’d tried before so I didn’t take any pictures. I had the chicken souvlaki from Greece – this was served on pita bread with tzatziki sauce. Pretty good, though the chicken was a bit dry.

At Chile, we had the corn and cheese arepa – basically a corn meal cake with cheese. It was ok, but it needed some salsa or something. Lee used to make these at home – and his were better.

While I was picking up the arepa, I saw the rock shrimp ceviche and decided I had to try that – it had popcorn on top! I asked about that, and was told that the popcorn somehow brought out the flavor. It was not bad, and had a little bit of a kick to it. Still, not something I would probably get again.

We turned around and headed back around the way we had come, stopping at Canada to catch the last two songs of Off Kilter’s set – we hadn’t seen them at all on this trip. At Morocco I had a glass of sangria and a piece of baklava. The sangria was very good, and the baklava was also pretty good – not so syrupy and sticky as many are. I think it was made with pistachios.

Our final stop for the evening was Louisiana where both Catherine and Lee got beers, and they split the praline bread pudding.

We finished our evening by meeting up with Rob and DebK, and watching Illuminations – we’ve seen it all four nights of this trip! That’s a first.

We’ll have time for one last abbreviated round of Eating Around the World tomorrow before we leave for the airport.

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