From our news items received recently, I found this one:

Kreutz Creek Presbyterian Church in Hellam Township will host a local food potluck supper 6 to 8 p.m. a week from today, on Sept. 24.

All dishes are to be prepared with at least 75 percent local ingredients. Grow it yourself or buy it at a farm stand, but at least 75 percent of what is in the dish needs to be from your York County.

Speakers Steve Prescott and Debbie Krout-Althoff will address the community, economic, environmental and health benefits of buying locally grown foods.

Steve Prescott is owner of a local Community Supported Agriculture farm, and Debbie Krout-Althoff is with the Horn Farm.

All guests are invited to bring a dish to share. Everyone is encouraged to write the ingredients and where you purchased them (or grew them yourself) on a 3-by-5 card. There is no admission charge, but monetary donations will be accepted for the Wrightsville food pantry.

The church is also accepting donations of wildflower seeds for their bee habitat.

The church is at 85 Old Church Road, between Routes 30 and 462 just west of Frysville Road ( behind the Tourist Inn). For details, call 840 0955, e-mail kcpc@nfdc.net or visit www.kreutzcreekpc.org.

Sounds neat! I attend a regular Wednesday-night program at my own church, or I'd head up and try it out!

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From my sister Carol (who affectionately calls herself "Not quite the oldest Sis"), here is a piece of decent advice if you must eat scrapple.

Don't think about it....just eat it! Louise (another sister) is right about thin and crisp. Some diners serve it much too thick, and that is where most non-lovers most likely try it.

I'll leave you to it. Happy eating!

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Do you see how the sun shines on this glorious cone of frozen milk with delightful hints of candy-bar pieces? Isn't it a thing of beauty?

I'm just wondering how long after the wisdom-teeth-removal until I can go back to Bruster's for a Toffee Bar Crunch/Oreo Cookie triple scoop cone. Not that my waistline needs it!

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Hubby must not read my blog very often, because he loves scrapple but didn't jump to its defense after my somewhat critical post on the mixed meat.

His sister, though, certainly did! Adriane says:

I will defend our beloved Scrapple to my dying day!! People are 'afraid' of scrapple, because it is assumed that the 'scraps' are swept off the butcher room floor or are taken from the tails, toes or ears of the swine. NOT SO! The 'scraps' are merely the ppieces of meat so small they cannot be sold - so they are salvaged to make an AWESOME product! There are several other types of meats and foods that are created by congealing them from boiling the bones, and internal organs of the animal for superb flavor, not just scrapple.

I admire her commitment to the still-questionable-in-my-mind meat product, but I'm still not a fan.

Meanwhile, from the other half of our family, my sister Louise weighs in:

I would eat some scrapple if it is sliced very thin and fried very crisp and brown. Scrapple's problem is it is UGLY FOOD. Maybe add a little red dye? olives? Oh well.

Well, she's got me on one point. Maybe it is the look, not the taste, that bothers me so much.

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A long time ago, commenter Bonnie told me:

In these parts we eat "pon haus" aka scrapple. Where's the hog maw? Where's the souse...it's food and should not be confused with getting "soused." That's all together different, though both are pickled.

Well, Bonnie hit on the one traditional food that I will not eat. (Yes, there are things I don't eat, believe it or not.)

It's like "Green Eggs and Ham." I could not, would not in a box... with a fox... in a house... with a mouse. Nowhere. Nohow.

Hubby, for his part, loves it and likes to tease me about it. But, sorry, even for someone who's as big of a hot dog fan as I am doesn't like meat-scrap-leftover-food.

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Deena shared with me a local blog of interest called The Weekly Share.

It's a blog that relates one family's experiences with a CSA - a community-supported agriculture program - in particular, Goldfinch Farm near Wrightsville.

I had heard of CSAs before - in fact, a good friend of mine belongs to one outside Spring Grove - but I didn't know a whole lot about them.

So it was really interesting to read The Weekly Share and see how it works. (Oh, and check out the zucchini recipes - you'll remember I bought some zucchini the other day at Brown's!)

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Kinda sad, I know. But probably a very Yorker-like thing to do, being as to how we love to eat so much.

The food in question in today's photo, though, is somewhat un-York-like. It's very Italian and very spicy, so eat with care. It's "pasta aglio y olio," which literally means pasta with oil and garlic. (With that translation, you might barely need the recipe!)

But it's not pronounced ag-lee-oh e oh-lee-oh, and there's one more secret ingredient after the garlic and oil.

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Having some time to spare before coming in to work yesterday, my mom, daughter and I headed down to Brown's Orchards and Farm Market in Springfield Township to pick up some good, fresh produce - and lunch!

On the produce side, we got some tomatoes, zucchini, peaches, radishes and bananas. (The radishes and a banana came to work with me as my after-dinner snack.)

My lunch choice was slightly less healthy than all that produce, though! Lunch there is one of my favorite things, and normally I get a hot dog on a pretzel roll. I know, boring. So today, I mixed it up a little.

Wondering what, exactly, that is?

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You've heard me mention several times how much I love picnics.

Well, the Greater Dover Historical Society was kind enough to invite me to their annual picnic last week! Jo, a member, was kind enough to introduce me around, so I got to meet a lot of people who I'd heretofore heard of only in e-mails.

Oh, and there was food. FOOOOOOOOD. Did I mention food?

Here I am (center) talking with Madelyn Shermeyer, the GDHS president (right), and her daughter Lisa Byerts, who I had as a teacher in middle school!

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Intrepid photographer Jo checked in with this visual update on the Smittie's pretzel stand on Route 74 North. She took this photo last Thursday evening.

Looks like the new, lighthouse-style pretzel stand is getting closer to completion. That means no more pretzel "shack" soon!

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