These young Asian gals were practising for their presentation on the stage which they are facing the back of, in downtown Edmonton's Churchill Square for the Taste of Edmonton. This festival brings in many food restaurants who feature two or three chef favourites for the public to taste. We bought tickets for the tasting event and then visited the different "restaurant" kiosks to try what they feature. It was a very different way to have "lunch".
Many people wandered the area and enjoyed the food and the entertainment but it was not crowded over the lunch hour, this first day of the event, so there were very few lineups. Bill and I visited again later in the week and it was very crowded (dinner time) and there were lineups. Our favourite??? Zinc, who provided bread pudding with a butterscotch sauce topped with banana slices carmelized in brown sugar....yummy!!!!
Small patio type tables were scattered around the shady area where patrons could sit and enjoy their samples and watch the crowds or listen to the entertainment. A beautiful day, not too hot, sunny with a breeze, so very enjoyable.
Daniel's favourite was this lava mousse explosion, made of chocolate and dressed like a mouse with a chocolate tail. He loved it...we each had a taste and I can see why he enjoyed it so much! Not just appealing to the eye, but the delicious taste made it his # 1 favourite.
Following this, Bill and I went back to Nadine's( we babtsat while Daniel napped) and began preparing the soil in her walkway garden for the planting of perennial salvia and spirea bushes as well as a burning bush, all of which except for the salvia, were her birthday gift. I will post pictures of the finished gardens in the next post. Stella D'Oro lilies and blue fescue grasses were also planted in her window box garden which crosses in front of her picture window. Looks lovely and quite an improvement!
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