Jack and I love spicy food and with Jack now being well into growing his own chilli plants (as well as tomatoes, strawberries and peppers) the Chilli Fiesta is right up our street. Although, if you're not into spicy food that's not a reason not to go along. There's plenty there to do and see throughout the weekend that doesn't involve destroying your taste buds.
Whilst we were there we also took the opportunity to have a stroll around the gardens as, although they are so local to us, neither of us could remember ever having been to them. They were beautiful and despite the loud salsa music coming from the main stage they were really peaceful. A lot of people had taken their own picnic and were using the gardens as a lovely little picnic spot. We hadn't taken a picnic but decided to take our lunch of choice (some absolutely delicious chilli dogs) to the gardens to lay in the sun and relax.
Small businesses from all over have stalls over the weekend so there's plenty of food and drinks to try. I love chilli cheese and think I tried nearly every variety and came home with three - jalepeno, after burn and cracked black pepper. We've just about worked our way through them now and they were all delicious.
We also picked up some brownies - salted caramel, plain and of course chilli chocolate which didn't quite survive the journey home, a Katsu Curry sauce that we're yet to experiment with and two chilli plants, the fruits of which Jack has been killing people's taste buds with for a few weeks now.
It's such a good day out but you can camp for the weekend if you're coming from further afield although you want to do that a little while in advance. You can buy tickets for next years event already so if you're keen get on it to save 20%.
Let me know if you've been to the chilli fiesta or if you're planning on going next year.
Until next time,
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