All the eats from this year’s celebration of the pumpkin!
Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel with Pumpkin Dip
Main Street at half past eight on festival opening morning. How haunting with the thick fog. It was a lovely 45 degrees.
Pumpkin Eat #1: Pumpkin rolls while waiting in line for the pancake breakfast. Spiced cake filled with sweetened cream cheese.
Pumpkin Eat #2: STILL waiting in line for pancake breakfast, we had nachos with cheese and pumpkin chili on top. I wanted to swim in a vat of this topping. The pumpkin in the chili provided just the right amount sweetness.
Festival go’ers came out in costumes and colorful pumpkin hats.
Pumpkin pancakes for days.
1, 2, 3… all-you-can-eat!
Pumpkin Eat #3: Pancake Breakfast
Pumpkin Eat #4: Pumpkin Smoothie with Whipped Cream. Despite the weather, we couldn’t pass up a frosty pumpkin treat.
Pumpkin Eat #5: Pumpkin Ice Cream. It wasn’t a very strong, in-your-face pumpkin flavor which I liked. I could eat more.
Simultaneously eating garlic fries. No there isn’t any pumpkin in these but I would never pass up fries tossed in a generous amount of minced garlic and chopped parsley.
The official pumpkin carver of the festival, Farmer Mike carving away at a very large pumpkin.
We didn’t reach our goal of consuming a dozen pumpkin items (grand total of 6 with the pretzel) but we definitely had our fill. Was anything particularly eye-opening in taste? Not particularly, aside from the pumpkin chili that I must make now, but to me the food was a way of participating in a celebration, a salute to fall. The weekend was about community and taking part in small town festivities. Okay I’ll just say it. It was like being in the fictional town of Stars Hollow from the TV show, Gilmore Girls where hay bale mazes, knit-a-thons and living arts festivals are the norm. All things I love. Celebrations of little things.
Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival
World Pumpkin Capital Celebrates The Great Gourd
October 19–20, 2013 * 9am to 5pm
Main Street, Half Moon Bay, California
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