The World Food Fest

We went to the World Food and Music Festival in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. There is lots of food from different countries. We got a lot of food there. We are going to talk about the foods we got and how they tasted.

Here, this is my brother Bo talking about his food:

"I ate the alligator bite. It was on a stick in a box with frog legs. I didn't eat any of those. The alligator tasted good and chewy, like meat and it had a crust around it.

I ate pizza. It was pepperoni with cheese and a hard crust. It tasted like cheese and pepperoni. Then I ate some Hawaiian chicken on a stick. It was sweet and good with a little chewy inside. Then I had two marshmallows on a stick. They burned them first. When I touched them with my tongue first, it was hot. Then it got sticky. And that is done."

OK, back to me. I ate alligator bites -- it was a little sour and fishy. It's breaded and fried. It was from a stand called Fat Tuesdays -- the food is from New Orleans. I also ate three frog legs from there. They tasted very much like fish. I really liked them. They were moist and breaded. The bone was very thin, the size of a small chicken bone.

After the frog legs I had some of my mom's food from Ecuador. It was a potato tortilla. My mom said it was the best food she ever had. Next, we went to the Hawaiian stand for Hawaiian chicken with terriyaki sauce and rice. The rice was plain and the chicken was tangy, so was the terriyaki sauce. I ate most of it until it got too sweet and then I traded with my dad. He had some Korean food -- a spicy pork bowl. It was pretty spicy. They had a red sauce in it. It had lots of vegetables and it was pretty meaty.

After that we were about to leave so we had some marshmallows. My sister got strawberry, my brother got raspberry and I got kahlua -- it's a type of alcohol. The marshmallows were on a stick. They roasted them over a little fire. They were burning hot. They were sweet. The marshmallows are from Beaverdale Confections from Iowa.

It was very crowded at the festival. It was on the bridges. 

This is me using an ear swab and that is the gunk out of my ear! Just kidding, that's my alcoholmallows!

We're eating our marshmallow. 

They are toasting the marshmallows. 

That is me eating my spicy Korean pork with rice. 

This is me eating my Hawaiian grill chicken. 

That's the thing that I just said in the thing above. 

That is not mine. It was my mom's. It was a taco that I wanted to get but I didn't.

That is Bo eating his Hawaiian chicken on a stick. 

That is the potato tortilla from Ecuador that my mom said was the best thing in the world. 

That is Bo eating his pizza from the Ecuador stand. 

I'm having a serious look. I'm a professor. Professor of Food.

That is my yummy frog legs that I will not share with anybody. Not even if they asked and gave me $100. 

Those are flags from around the world. My favorite flag: I don't know. I'd have to look at them later. 

Budget Hot Sauce Review

                Budget hot sauce review
First up, the reason we got hot sauces today was because of football and hotwings . we (me and my dad sometimes my little brother) like to watch the nfl, we also watch college but not as much. 

Now let's get started with the hot sauce types. They were all pretty cheap sauces (all under one dollar) we just wanted to see which was the best hot wing sauce. There was texas pete, louisiana original hot sauce, and trappeys ulltimate cayenne pepper sauce. 

The ingredients for texaspete were: peppers, vinegar, and salt. It tasted tangy, salty and had more taste than the Louisiana hot sauce, it was very bold also. 

The louisiana hot sauce was the hottest sauce of them all. It was bold like the texaspete sauce, and vinegary also. 

I saved the best for last. Trappeys hot sauce was bold, salty, and vinegary, notice a pattern in the tastes?! But it was the right amount of spice, and it was the boldest sauce. 

All of the sauces were almost the same, but the trappeys sauce just tasted better. Well that's all for this one, guys, and a heads up, dont put to much sauce on one peice of chicken!!!!!!

The Outlet Mall Hulabaloo!!!!!!!

On saturday the 15th of march, I decided to go to the outlet mall, which is near Williamsburg, Iowa. It's about 2 hours from Des Moines. Drive east.

I got way more clothes then expected. About 11 shirts, 6 pairs of pants, 3 shorts and new shoes. An outlet mall is a chain of stores -- like clothes stores basically. My favorite stores were Reebok, Nike, Under Armour, Gap, Old Navy and that's all. I liked the last store that we went to because it was a caramel apple store! I picked out a toffee caramel apple, but I never got to eat it. We forgot it at Grandma's house. 

If you're going to the outlet mall, expect a lot of clothes and looking for clothes for your baby sister. It will be a little boring at times, especially looking for your mom's clothes, but when you get to look for your own clothes it's more fun. 

We shopped for about 3 hours. Then we went across the street to the Landmark Restaurant.

We forgot to take a photo of the restaurant, but we found this on the computer. There's no green grass in Iowa yet.

After all that shopping, you could guess that we were all pretty hungry.

To start it off I got spicy chicken soup, boy that stuff was spicy.

The soups were all homemade. My grandma got a soup with cabbage and sausage in it. She said it was good. 

 Then for my entree I got a bacon cheese burger and fries. I also saw steak that looked good and tenderloin sandwiches.

 I ate almost all of my bacon cheese burger but almost none of my fries [as usual].

 I was full.

They have homemade pies for dessert. I sort of wanted one but I was too full. 

If you're on the road, on Interstate 80, you should go to the Landmark Restaurant. And you should go to the outlet mall if you're running out of clean clothes or if your clothes don't fit you. 

Iowa Energy Game

On my birthday, I got to go to a iowa energy game. Iowa energy is a basketball team that plays in des moines. They play in wells fargo arena. I went to the season opener game where it was energy vs. the rio grande vipers.

It was snowy and icy on my birthday. It was pretty cold, too. We had to put sand in the back of our van to make traction.

It was not a packed house at the wells fargo arena. There was a lot of empty seats. I did not know that my best friend was coming to the game, too. I figured it out when they drove by us as we were walking in and they yelled my name. I was excited!

So we went inside and our seats were in the second row! I thought those were good seats, except we were kind of in the corner. It's fun to go to a basketball game because you can see the people playing right in front of you. It's a fun treat.

This is me eating my birthday donut cake.

In this picture I am waiting for my best friend to arrive.

I am trying make him a bunny with my two fingers as ears.

Another good part of the game is the food! We had lots of hotdogs because they only cost one dollar that night, so my parents said to eat up. We also had popcorn, which was good because I like popcorn. And I had nachos, too. I liked the nachos. They tasted good. 

Bo's going slap happy.

I'm just making a random face here as I eat my nachos.

That is a big and rubbery seal.

The halftime show was funny because they had mascots that were in big suits and they were jumping around and doing crazy stuff. They were called the Zooperstars. They were all good. People laughed a lot at them. 

Big seal along with his friends big bull and big fly.

The energy mascot surge.

Surge signing a little booklet.

This is a good family event because it's fun. Kids will like the half time show and the action. I recommend the nachos and hotdogs and popcorn. Surge is a fun mascot and he will sign something for you if you ask him. 

Next I want to try hockey game. I think we will go to the Des Moines Buccaneers. Do you recommend going to the Buccaneers or the Iowa Wild? 

Good Deal's Orchard

Well sadly it was our last day at our grandma's house. But on our last day there we decided to go to a orchard -- Deal's Orchard. I was wondering what the place looked like so I was getting a little anxious to see what the place looked like. But right before I could check the place out, my mom stopped me right before I could see much stuff. So instead of thinking what I should do first I had to stop and get my picture taken.

Well finally I got to check the place out.

And now I have to get my picture taken again! What's wrong with these people!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

Air mattress football! 99 yard touch down run! By number almost 9! But by number 8.

And a great catch by number 5.

And he needs to pull up his pants after the tackle.[p.s. he always needs to pull up his pants]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the cheer leader's come on for half time.

Game has been canceled due to boringness. 

Sorry little girl you have to be bigger than 1 foot 9 to ride by your self.

Poor little kid. Only got candy corn for halloween.

Another death in the corn yard. There has been ten already today.

Look on this collision with a red thing-a-majig and a pink thing-a-majig.

Grandma and the donkeys

Well that guy is taking a little bit of a risk. He may not come out alive.

Well now we are checking out the national duck racing. Our new champion is mazy hanson due to bo hanson getting disqualified because of whining after a loss.

Well now you have a news report on the stuff in the deal's orchard.

We went into the shop market. We could pick out a free apple from ones in a little crate at the door. I chose a Red Delicious because I liked the name. The Red Delicious apples you buy at the grocery store looks almost black purple or maroonish, and they taste bland. The ones at the orchard are brighter and they taste sweeter and juicier.

You can buy cider, slush, honey, apple pies and a lot of other stuff. I got a cider slush. It tasted good -- sweet. We bought creamed honey and regular honey. Creamed honey is honey but it's almost like a honey paste. I eat it on bread. It's sweeter than some other kinds. The last thing we bought was apple cider. Cider is different than apple juice. For the cider, they put apples inside of a barrel and then they push down and crush the apples. Then they separate all the juice and the seeds and skin and stem away and leave the apple meat, and then they crush the apple meat more and it makes cider that gets put into bottles. I prefer to drink apple cider.

If you go to Jefferson to Deal's Orchard you could go to the Pizza Ranch afterward for lunch, like we did.

Flag Festival with Goat

Sorry it's been so long since I had my last post. It's been a busy fall, and we haven't been able to do much, anyhow lets get down to business. In the summer I went to the world food festival. When we first got there it was pretty crowded so we had to stick together. As we were walking around I was getting hungry and we went to some place. I saw they had a kim chi taco. when I got it I took a bite and then a another and thought hmm....messy...little to much kim chi. It was the kim chi that I didn't like because it was too sour.

Next I got pork belly. When I first tried it I thought too much fat because I didn't take a bite of the meaty part. After I figured out it even had a meaty part it tasted pretty good.

Ladies and gentleman may I please present to you the world famous blood soup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about all the enthusiasm but it kinda fits in with the sentence. The blood soup was a little bland and dry. I thought it tasted better last year?

Oh those suckers tasted good. The one with the white stuff was good. One reason I liked it was because it was goat burger and I think it had goat cheese YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those are the flags of all the places where the food came from.

I asked for iced coffee and then I started reading a newspaper like my cousin Theron did too, heeheeheeheeheeheehee.

There I am eating ice cream stupidly. NOW ALL DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!