If you attended the Dickens Festival last weekend, you would have had many good choices to satisfy your taste buds. As well as the many fine eateries in Carlyle, Main Street was garnished with a multitude of food vendors for Friday and Saturday evenings, starting at 5 p.m.
Each vendor was donating funds to a worthy cause and all had good sales with most running out of food both nights.
The menus consisted of: The Carlyle Fire Department served
smoked turkey legs - one for each hand please!; Knights of Columbus cooked up chili with a bun - this will warm you up on a cold night!; The Carlyle Lion’s Club served baked potatoes “with all the fixin’s”, strategically located next to the chili!; Moose Mountain Wado Kai Karate Club dished up perogies, which went great with the smokies served by Carlyle Elementary School grade six class; Church of our Lady, Carlyle had clam chowder, corn chowder, chicken noodle soup, apple cider and mincemeat tarts; Philippine Kitchen had BBQ chicken skewers, veggie fried rice and banana spring rolls; Southern Plains Co-op baked up cookies, while OneChurch.ca had
rice pudding.
Wayne and Trudy Rutten came from Regina and attend the Festival every year.
The Observer asked them, “What is the highlight of the Festival?”
“The show, that is why we came.” “Love the food vendors. “Enjoy the rice pudding. “The K of C chili is great on a cold winter night and the chowder shack is number one.”
