[CH] Re: Bowers fest
bvdrangs@enter.net
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:18:01 -0400
We arrived at Meadow View Farms arounf 9AM and headed directly to the fields
where we promtly met Karen Stobler. We got to try a few varieties while
picking and chose a really nice large chili called Garden Salsa. It had a sweet
bell pepper taste but as we got to more membrane, it got hotter. We both liked
it. We also packed some Eclipse chiles, a poblano type that is chocolate brown.
Can't wait to stuff them. Others that followed us home were Trinidad Seasoning,
Fatali, Jamaican Hot Chocolate, Lemon Habaneros, Red Seasoning and Bulgarian
Carrot. We moved on to the heirloom tomatoes and got about 12 pounds of the
delicious beauties. After checking out what else James had for sale, we hopped
the wagon for a ride over to the Chile Festival.
Our first stop was the Red Lion booth. After saying hello to Chip, we promptly
tasted and bought some of his pickled garlic (both with jalapeno and habanero!).
The the chile champ Doug arrived so we got to say hi to him too. We then
wandered around the festival and stopped at Seth's Hot Sauce. Seth's dad makes
hot sauce in notrth central PA and it was pretty good. We got one. We stopped
at
many other stands but didn't really buy much. Ingleby Farms had their hot sauce
kits on sale so I bought one (now I really have to make my own sauce!) and we
got some spicy pretzel seasonings from another stand. There were a good number
of food stands but we never seemed to find time to eat. We took the wagon ride
back to the farm and proceeded to try the hot chile/strawberry ice cream. After
sampling the wide varieties of watermelon there, we bought a yellow seedless
that is awesome. We headed home around 2PM, missing some of the excitement at
the festival. We also missed meeting most of the chile heads who were there.
It's good that soemone else took photos. I have a few breif bursts of video
footage but don't know haow it turned out.
My previous post included the url where the photos we took that day are
viewable. They will probably match the narrative above.
Dave