Summer Road Trip: GILROY

Welcome to: Gilroy, CA

Our drive up north led us through the agricultural belt of Central California. This town is known for GARLIC. Vampires beware! Passed a few shops such as the one pictured above that sold almost any and everything made with garlic. Definitely a must-stop place for anyone who likes to cook and wants to pick up some fresh homemade spices and seasonings!

Now, I'm a fan of garlic flavor. I love it in a lot of dishes (especially pastas, fries and with chicken!), but I would never have expected to ever try GARLIC ICE CREAM! Being the adventurous foodie, I wanted to give it a go. It was SO WEIRD!

It was basically vanilla ice cream with a slight hint of garlic flavoring (I'm guessing they used garlic butter?) mixed in. When you first taste it, it just seems like normal vanilla ice cream. Then after a while, your tongue starts getting confused because all of a sudden, you can totally start to taste the garlic! At first I wasn't liking it, but eventually, I didn't want to STOP eating! How strange, huh?!

We always drive through here whenever we make the trip from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and back. There are lots of great food and fruit stands in this area as well. I always want to stop and pick up some fresh strawberries! Maybe one day I'll be able to make it out there for the Annual Garlic Festival.. Interesting to see what that's all about!

Remind me to bring a few packs of gum though!

<--- Last stop: SOLVANG

Next stop: SANTA CRUZ --->