Once again, I ate my way through the World Food Festival in Des Moines last weekend. I was blown away by the variety of food offered by the vendors this year. I would say that the World Food Festival is now favorite food-related event -- even better than the Iowa State Fair. And that's saying a lot!
Last year, my favorite booth was the Ethiopian Association's. So that was my first stop this year. I ordered the mild chicken wot with vegetables and rice. As my husband says, anything with curry has got to be good. I loved all the spices in this -- fresh pepper, rosemary, curry. I wolfed down this whole dish!
The $1 sample at the Iowa Machine Shed booth was the chocolate bacon chipotle cookie. Look how gorgeous this cookie is! And it's coated in chocolate! This was easily my favorite treat at the World Food Festival this year.
I told myself I was only going to get one dessert, but I couldn't resist this "special edition" cupcakes from my favorite bakery, the Ames Cupcake Emporium. These are Iowa cupcakes, made with bacon and cornflakes. That's a little candy pig on the top!
I stood in line for 10 minutes for the one item I was really looking forward to trying, the Hello Gourdgeous pizza from Gusto Pizza Co. It's a pizza topped with butternut squash, red onions and sage. I've been wanting to make a squash pizza at home, so I was excited to try this out.
Sorry for this photo of the half-eaten pizza, but I wanted to show you the pumpkin-puree "sauce" that topped the pizza. So creative!
So fellow Iowans, did any of you visit the World Food Festival this year? What was your favorite dish? There was so much to try, it was hard to choose what to indulge in.
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