Return of Bazaar Food

The first Sunday of June is always the weekend of the church bazaar...

which means good food like these fish tacos...

the good folks at the booth were quite generous with the portions ($2 each/they used to be $1.75 several years ago), made even more delicious with cabbage, carrots, salsa, and cilantro.

We enjoy going every year. Here's a rundown of the food booths and what we had.

There were the usual suspects  like tacos and tostadas, along with funnel cakes.

There's the fish taco booth; Bert and I shared that plate. TC had hamburgers from the booth next door.

I liked the child's drawing of the "hot dog":

There was even a seaprate booth for French Fries. But wait....look.

What's that booth next to it?

More on that in a tiny bit. Let's move on for now.

At the tail end of the food booths were the two most popular booths that day, Carne Asada and Corn on the Cob (Mexican style with butter, lime and spicy powder).

All right. Now back to that mysterious booth.

It was the return of Ana's Spanish Kitchen. The last time I saw this booth was back in 2007 (post linked at the end). I'd been wondering what happened to this booth those subsequent years. I remembered the lady had really good cream puffs and lo and behold! She had 'em today! Well then!


sign

There was a delectable array of dessert laid out...

They let me pull back the screen so I could take photos. Cream puffs, ricotta tart with an apricot on top, and mini banana creme pies! The lady next to me was eating one and swore it was the best she's had.

There were skewers of marshmallows and strawberries, ready to be roasted, along with sweet coconut and rice turnovers, and cookies  (not sure what the chips were). What to get....

The guy in front of me was nice enough to let me take a snap of his paella ($8). His girlfriend's plate (which is cut off) had the jamon serrano sandwich.

I made my purchases and made it back to the table without dropping anything!

Below, my MIL's pancit and lumpia combo. That is pancit canton (using thicker yellow noodles).

She also had one of the funnel cakes being sold by the Daughters of Immaculate Mary booth.

Here were the items I got from Ana's Spanish Kitchen. Bert and I shared these: One cream puff ($3), one bocadillo con jamon serrano ($3), and one coconut and rice turnover ($3).

The jamon serrano was spilling out of the bread (I liked the look of the top!). This would have been really great with Manchego cheese inside, but we still liked it.

Here's another look at that jamon serrano....layers and layers of it. Mmmm!

Underneath the ham was a paste of fresh tomatoes! This was so tasty!

Next is the turnover, which was very flaky (I think it may have been a tortilla) and totally encrusted with sugar and cinnamon.

When I looked up my old post about this booth, I read that I was given a sample of this and didn't really like it. Well, I changed my tune today.

The crust was so crisp and flaky. The filling was rice sweetened with coconut. The rice had a bit of a "chew" to it as well. It was a bit messy to eat but we both really liked this.

Now for the cream puff. They were just as good as they looked!

Piled high with whipped cream...

And hidden within was chocolate mousse!

This was so light and fluffy and really, a bargain at $3!

When I was there today, I noticed that the lady's two daughters (teens back then) were now grown up. They all looked like they were enjoying themselves at the booth. They had a Spanish tortilla (eggs and potatoes) that I looked at longingly, but since I had three things, I didn't want to look like a total pig. One thing they didn't have this time were the croquettes.

One of my BIL's friend's kids came over to the table to show us the cake she won at the Cake booth. Your put a quarter on a number on a roulette wheel which they spin. If the pointer lands on your number, you win a cake! This one looked really good! It was a chocolate bundt cake with white froster, topped with moon (or banana?) shaped marshmallows! So cute!

There was another row of food booths that are there year after year. I like how the food offerings reflect the demographics (mostly Filipino and Mexican, plus a few whitefolk) of the parish community. You got your nachos and your halo-halo...

plus Snow Cones. It was overcast today and not that warm so we skipped out on those today. Next to that was the Fil-Am Association's popular Lumpia and Pancit booth.

We could get that anytime, which is why I opted for that Spanish food booth. TC had a cotton candy and hung out with a friend for a bit, looking at the rides and games, as well as craft booths.

The line for the Corn on the Cob booth was long!

This was funny. The guy driving the "Thomas the Train" cars? TC overheard him several times, doing a running commentary as he was driving.  She said he reminded her of Seth Rogen.

"Excuse me, I don't want to run you over. I don't have brakes. Just kidding. No, seriously...I don't have brakes", or pointing out some guy who won a giant flamingo stuffed toy which was draped around his neck, "Ooh, look at that! It's not big enough!". She said he was really funny. He would also honk the horn A LOT! He actually honked at us because we were in his way, then loudly said, "Oh, so now you see me!" . I think he was just having fun! At least he didn't speed around, ha ha!


In front of the French Fries booth was this styofoam replica of fries!

I thought it kind of odd that they had a booth just for fries! I think this was new.

At this vendor's table, she had a motley assortment - a Bob Marley (with marijuana leaves!) backpack, bracelets, crucifixes (upside down no less! oh no!), and these cute-si-fied (yes, that is a word I just made up) Virgin of Guadalupe statues.

There were more of those on the lawn, along with the black Disney princess, a Mexican character called, "La Chilindrina" (Freckles, also the name of my favorite type of pan dulce from La Concha), as well as Angry Birds, (not pictured), and turtles (WTH).

Although we didn't stay too long this year, it was still nice seeing family, friends, and hearing the entertainment (a dance troupe, young pianists, and a Mexican rock band).

Here are my previous bazaar posts:
2007
2012

Wow. I didn't realize I had a big gap. I guess I just didn't blog the other years, but we've gone every year since the late 90's.

Until next year's bazaar!