Salt Lake Greek Festival 2014

This weekend was the 39th annual Salt Lake Greek Festival, hosted by the Greek Orthodox Churches of Greater Salt Lake; my husband and I have managed to attend the past three years (the first festival I could have attended, four years ago, I hadn't known about; I had been living in Utah for less than a week at that point). Last year, we discovered that Sunday afternoon was a good time for us to attend; the food lines are much shorter, which suits us better.

In any case, we saw some wonderful dancing; saw a cooking demo, in which fried feta was prepared and shared; and heard the Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir perform.

We also ate a lot of great food.

While waiting in line, we bought and ate Tyropita, a cheese
triangle wrapped and baked in phyllo.

My husband had the Keftedes (meatballs); a gyro; pilafi (rice
 boiled in lemon and chicken broth); pork souvlaki; and
Pastitsio (baked pasta with a filling of ground meat and a
béchamel sauce on top). He also had a salad and feta.

I had some spanikopita; a gyro; some feta; some Keftedes;
and chicken souvlaki. 

I also had Stifado, a beef stew with pearl onions, vinegar,
red wine, and cinnamon.

While I wasn't able to eat everything, before we left we
stopped off for another gyro and Greek fries to take home. 

Among the things we took home were the Loukoumades, which
are similar to donuts; they're fried balls of dough coated with
honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Many treats were bought; some was eaten, but some was
taken home. We ate some baklava and melomakarona
(cookies soaked in syrup of diluted honey, then sprinkled with
crushed walnuts).

Baklava is one of our favorites, but we also ate or brought home
a galotopita (custard pudding baked in phyllo) and some
flogeres (walnuts, butter, and spices baked in phyllo and topped
with chocolate syrup).