Today's post is an ode to my favorite sweet snack...
ICE CREAM!
I couldn't even begin to pick one local favorite. If I had to, it would extend slightly beyond York County's borders to Mechanicsburg, the home of Rakestraw's. Ohhhh, is that good.
Let's see... where else for ice cream?
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Local favorites week rolls on, and today I'm looking at my favorite local junk food.
Yep, that's them at right. Utz ripple-cut sour cream and onion chips.
The irony? For those of you who don't know, my part-time job is as a Weight Watchers leader, and I'm getting ready to lead a lunchtime meeting today.
That's just a special kind of irony.
After I wrote yesterday's post on stellar lunches, guess what I ended up making myself for dinner?
You guessed it.
Instant ramen. Isn't that awesome?
Lest you think I'm a little too York County-focused, I should probably mention that one of my main hobbies is reading manga and studying Japanese culture.
You also know that I loooooove food, right?
So imagine how stoked I was last week when Jo sent me some pictures of some amazing Japanese-style bento lunches.
(More photos if you read on!)
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One thing you will learn about me, if you stick with this blog long enough, is that I have an almost frightening attraction to hot dogs - or, "stick meat," as my friend LeAnne calls it.
So you can imagine my immense joy when the PR gentlemen from Hatfield e-mailed me to tell me that July is National Hot Dog Month!
Like I needed more of a reason to eat a ketchup-and-mustard-laden, rotisserie-grilled piece of heaven on a bun?!
Matt from Hatfield also tells me that, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (yes, there is such a thing!), last year, in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, York and Scranton region, residents purchased more than $27 million worth of hot dogs - the ninth-highest of any region in the nation.
Now that's a lot of meat.
I had some neat guesses for yesterday's what's missing from the picnic quiz.
Joe (a new commenter - hi, Joe!) said "some sort of potato? i.e. chips?"
He gets credit, though it's not the magic answer. My photos didn't show the end of the table with several bags of Martin's Chips or the potato salad. So, he's right that those are staples that are missing.
Beth went a little more down-home. Her guesses? "Pepper slaw or chow-chow?"
Good guesses, and we didn't have any to start with, but it's not the amazing disappearing food.
Hubby, who knew the correct answer, but was just kidding, said there was no hogmaw.
But loyal reader Jo got it in one with her guess. What was it?
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OK, as promised, I do have photos of the yummy picnic food from Sunday, including hubby's rice and beans (see his comment on yesterday's post for the recipe) as well as local favorites like potato salad, baked macaroni and enough desserts for a thundering horde. As you're looking through, see if you can figure out what is missing from these pictures because they went faster than I could snap a photo! (Answer tomorrow!)
Finish reading 'Picnic food (part 2)' »I promised a rundown on the picnic food from yesterday's church picnic. I don't have the photos uploaded yet (tomorrow, I swear!)
But, I did want to give an update on my husband's covered dish. I was really surprised when he offered to make one, but he did - AND he stuck with the current family food challenge, which is to hold off a trip to the grocery store as long as possible by making use of items "found" in the pantry, fridge and freezer.
So what did he make?
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I'll be at the annual picnic for my church today.
It's about that time of year... summer picnics, cookouts, all that good stuff. I went to a Memorial Day cookout at my best friend's house; that was a lot of fun.
It's funny, how much my life doesn't change. I just realized that my third-ever post on this blog was about picnics - two of which I just mentioned. The third picnic event last year at this time was the SPCA adopt-a-thon, and since I'm emphatically not in the market for any more pets, I think I'll give that one a miss... though I'd be remiss not to ask you to consider adopting something from one of our local animal shelters.
Anyway, here's to some good covered-dish eats - including one from our family, which my husband made - wow!
All right, my few but proud readers - any favorite picnic/cookout foods? I'm going to today's picnic prepared to take lots of pictures of the good eats, so I'll give you the rundown afterward.
In some "YDR trivia" news... that silhouetted guy in the photo above is the husband of biz editor Kara - we set him up for a recent photo illustration on a story about rising costs for cookout foods.
Courtesy of intrepid reader Jo, I recently went on a quest to find out more about "cracker candy."
This led me to another intrepid woman in my life, my mother, who normally can turn up any recipe but who wasn't familiar with this treat. So, moving along the list, I hit up correspondent and friend Barb Krebs, who provided an AWESOME recipe for me.
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