(outdoor demonstrations weather-permitting)
We’re introducing Street Tacos and Puerto Rican Empanadas to our food choices this year! We had a trial run last week, and everyone came away with rave reviews! We’ve also added grilled Mexican corn. Stop by during the Fair for a sample of these new food items!
Making Fresh Pretzels and Pretzel Dogs for the Fair! These won’t be baked until the Fair, so they’ll be fresh and hot when you get them! You can also make your own pretzel during the Fair inside the Craft Pavilion. (1 on the Fair Map)
Our bakers have been busy preparing hamburger buns for the Fair! All the bread served during our Fair is hand made right in our own bakery (located inside the Homestead Market) using all whole grain flour and simple ingredients – no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Come by the Market and take home fresh bread … Read more
Our pretzel dogs aren’t just a run-of-the-mill lunch. Starting with locally sourced, grass-fed beef and our own signature spice blend, our butchers first run the meat through the grinder three times, and then stuff and smoke the hot dogs. Once the dogs come out of the smoker they are plunged briefly into ice water to … Read more
Homestead Meat Market is working lots of extra hours to produce enough hot dogs, sausages and hamburgers to feed all of the expected guests to this year’s Fair! It took 24.5 hours of continuous prep and smoking to complete 1,100 spicy jalapeño sausage for the American food booth. Stop by and try one out! And … Read more
Once again our cooks are cranking out 2,000 Maple Waffle Cones, each one rolled by hand. All together they used 50# of flour, 36# of butter and 24 quarts of real maple syrup amongst other ingredients. (Yes, each cone contains nearly 2 teaspoons of butter.) I wish we could blog the smell! Yum!!
A happy crew of cooks just turned 240 lbs of corn masa into 3,000 tamales in preparation for this year’s fair. Stop in at the Mexican food booth in Food Court A for a Mexican tamale plate with charro beans and Spanish rice.
Last week the bakers were cooling 90 loaves of French bread for the soup booth. All of our bread served during the Fair is made here, by hand, from scratch. If you can’t make it to the Fair for a sample of wonderful, fresh bread, please feel free to stop in to the Homestead Bakery … Read more
We have fresh lettuce, spinach and other greens available for purchase at the Aquaponics Greenhouse! All of our vegetables in the Greenhouse are for sale year-round, so stop by to pick up your fresh vegetables during the Fair or anytime afterwards!
Busily preparing pizza dough. We’ve got 600 so far! Stop by for some brick oven pizza’s during the day today.
