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I have lots of Lancaster area stuff that I have posted before. I will try to pull it together and add it here. Lancaster is 30 miles from Harrisburg and 20 from York. Carlise is a little further away.
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Late season black tomato blight has made an ugly apperance in Lancaster County spoiling many back yard tomato crops. As I understand it farmers have a spray for this that is not available to home users. So far, I have been able to avoid this but like others have baig vines with lots of green tomatoes that need sun to ripen them. Local officials are asking folks who get this to discard the plants so as the spores do not spread, they need live plants to live on. They are also telling people not to place these plants on their compost piles. The farmers in Lancaster County are very concerned about this.
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While attending a recent Phillies game I had a Schmitter sandwich. This is named after former Phillie great Mike Schmitt, grilled steak with melted cheese, grilled onion, a slice of tomato and topped with a hunk of grilled salami on a hard roll with a sort of russian dressing sauce. This was the best ballpark sandwich I have had.
This time of year I second the call for the tomato sandwich, a juicy warm tomato, a crank or two of pepper, some sea salt, just enough mayo to moisten the bread. Wonderful.
However my favorite is still sweet bologna and cheese with spicy mustard on Martins potato roll. This is a Pa specaity but I love it.
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In my bartending days I would holler at some of the kids working when they thought Rose's was to used as substitute for limejuice. However, i do not find it offensive in and of itself. I used it more to flavor club soda or even Coke.
I have a friend who mixes batches oc cosmopolitians for his wife. he uses Roses and the are horrible. She seems to like them for some reason. My wife brought a bottle home for hers. I wouldnot use it. lime juicemakes a cosmo drinkable. roses makes it un fit for consumption
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This weekend at Washington Borough park at intersection of Rts 441 and 999 is the Tomato Festival. A small community festival with food games and other thing but especially tomatoes. Drove down to Washington Borough last night and got a couple and they are real good this year, this is a fun little local even and anyone looking for something to do would, I think, enjoy it. The park is right along the Susquehanna river
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Holly,
Funks Farm Market is on s duke st in Millersville, I remember when it was a roadside stand. Now it is a pretty big place, but the stuff is locally grown and tasty.
In Washington Borough there are lots of road side stands selling tomatoes. Rt 999 goes west out of Lancaster thru Millersville to Washington Borough which is nestled right along the Susquehanna which produces a good micro climate for tomatoes. Some of the best tomatoes I ever had I bought from a boy with a table set up in his front yard on Blue Rock Rd.
Although not as numerous as in past days driving through farm country both east and west of Lancaster you will find stands with honor box with farm fresh produce.
Brooklawn Farms which is on State st near E petersburg has wonderful corn.
The Lancaster Central Farmers market used to be full of local produce. Many ofthosestands have closed with produce being brought in by distributors. There are two local stands still selling but they are small and sell out quockly.
I live in Millersville west of Lancaster and am morefarmiliar with places on this end. The east end of the county is were the Amish live and I don't gothere but there is lot's of roadside produce there.
Years ago I bought corn from a farmer who picked it only hours before I bought. That farm is within a mile of my house. In the last 8 or9 years it now has several hundred homes on it. There is still plenty offarmland near me,but lessand less every year
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a long day at work concluding an ugly week.
Very simple tonight
1. Take glass
2. Add ice
3. Pour borboun
4. drink
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Here in Lancaster County local sweet corn has been available since June 26. Fred Funk from Funk's farm market told me it is second earliest he has had corn in 30 some years. Washington Borough tomatoes, which are the best around, are due this week my sources tell me and there may be some in now. Funk also reportes to me that peaches are doing great and will also be early. The strawberry crop is here and gone and last year they had none until July 3. Farmers up here are thrilled with the weather this year and yields for field and table crops are expected to be near all time highs. A wonderful time of year here in Lancaster surounded by all this great produce. The tomatoes in my yard are coming along as well but will not be ready for a while. My first time growing at our new house. I was worried about lack of sun but they are doing fine.
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for some drinks, mint julep, comes to mind only crushed ice works, one place i tended bar at had a machine that made these tiny round pieces of ice. it worked great for crushed ice drinks
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Johnny I agree with you about Katie's emoticons and I think the two of you are all but in a dead heat for snappiest hat.
I have attended all three of the Triple Crown races many times. The only one of the offical drinks worth a taste is the Julep, a wonderful thing. I always think of the Belmont as the beginning of summer. Thus I will lean towards beer tommorow. Smarty Jones is a wonderful story and I believe he will win and make Katie and the Philadelphians happy and proud. All of us who love horse racing are pulling for him as well.
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Man, bitter lemon, I forgot how much I loved vodka and bitter lemon in the summer. It is not the easiest thing to find sometimes bur I used to drink it by the gallon, or so it seems, thanks for the reminder I am going to look for some this weekend. Rum and Coke with Roses Lime Juice also served me well in summers past. Now that I have a more educated pallet I fin an Americano to be very refreshing.
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Love an Americano, this is a great cocktail that mor people should try. I first had one back in my bartending days when we used to taste lots of stuff. This is one that i still like. My wife and I are going out to dinner tonight and I think I will have one. The place we are going to has real bartenders so I should get a good drink
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I certainly remember the raspberry ginger ale. I went to store tonight and checked out the soda aisle. Cranberry seems to be the flavor these days for ginger ale as their was a diet and regular cranberry ginger ale but no raspberry of any kind.
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Here in SE Pennsylvania Piels came in the wide mouth bottles, they called them "quickies" I also recall Schmitts in the stubbies as well as Reading.
I believe there were others as well, but time clouds the memory. Perhaps Ortliebs?
and we had the occasional Nat Bo as well. National Boheminan was always real cheap and had a rep as rotgut around here. We drank Schmitts so we had no room to talk
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Katie,
I wonder what it tatses like but cannot ever imagine paying $250 for a bottle of bourbon. Or even having a manhatan made with it. Is that a $50 dollar cocktail? I adore bourbon and I wonder if that stuff even tastes like bourbon. Perhaps my palette is not developed enough but if I want cognac I will order it. This is not meant to be some reverse snobbery polemic but to me bourbon should taste like the corn and the earth. This sounds pretentious a little but I always think when I taste an oyster I taste the sea. When I taste bourbon I taste the earth. If it is as refined as cognac I fear that taste may be lost.
Having said all this I would like a taste. If someone can e-mail me a ounce or two I would let you know if I do like it
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Some things may be best left at point of origin, in particular Malibu Milk
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it remains my opinion that a Manhattan made with bourbon and equal parts sweet and dry vermouth with a lemon or orange twist is the greatest combination of spirits mankind has ever devisied. It is a classic because it is great. I still rember going to a place with a young guy working the bar and ordering a perfect Manhattan and him getting all steamed at me cause he thought I was taking a shot at him. I explained to him what I wanted and it was really pretty good.
The story is a great one and I will have one tonight in honor of the father in the article.
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I have always muddled mint leaves with super fine sugar, crushed ice is important as well, the bourbon does not have to be the best, but should be good. These are great. I have had them at the Derby and I cannot think of anyplace I'd rather be on the first Saturday in May
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I vacation on Outer Banks every year and OB Q is nothing special. I think the best comes from NC BBQ which is in Corolla behind Winks and the Twiddy Realtor office. Pigman's is no good. Sooey's is not much better. Some of the stuff at the Duck Deli is pretty good. I understand that there is a new place open this year called, I believe, High Cotton. From what I understand it is located in Kill Devil Hills near milepost 3 on the beach road. If that location is correct it is most assuredly a tourist type place and I do not hold out a lot of hope for it.
I agree that the Saul's have the best in the area. It is not far from Nags Head and would second the advice that you give them a try.
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Paul,
I would agree but the thing offered at my local pizza place were,yuengling, bud, rolling rock and heineken, not a craft brew in that bunch. For me, one craft 22 would be great, but 22's of bud i can do without
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Thanks to all, i should say that the place i was in sells tons of carry out to students at the college in our town, and in fact carry out beer makes them all rich. i do believe heineken was one of the beers offered. if it is meant as a singleserving i fear this will lead the students to abuse even more. They ain;t just havng one like my wife and i. one six pack equals 72 oz. 4 of those 22's is 88 and that is not good
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I very rarely buy carry out beer but we ordered a pizza the other night and my wife said she would like a beer. I got the pie and told the guy I wanted beer to go. Did not want a six pack and a quart would have been to much. I was flummoxed to discover they had several beers in 22oz. bottles. I had never seen this before and wondering if any of you beer sharpies could clue me in. is it marketing or a good idea. For the brewers it may be a profit thing as the 22oz Yuengling was the same price as a quart, which my math tells me is 10oz more. Anyone else observed this? Just wondering about this as I am no longer in the biz and am WAY behind the curve on these issues
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Like some others I like Big Flavors by Forbes, I really like Cheasepeake Bay Cooking by John Shields it was for a TV show but I love it. Joy of Cooking is a classic for me. I am now mostly baking bread instead of cooking and Peter Rinehart is great. I must have more than a hundred cookbooks and love to just sit and read one. My wife thinks I am whacked, and I do not buy many anymore unless it is something special. I used to get them by the armload. I had a part time job at Borders just so I could by cookbooks on discount. Some week I spent more on books than I made. I am better these days but love cookbooks
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Ted and Neil certainly know more than I but I also add the butter off the heat. My family adores a lemon layer cake I make with the curd as the filling. A butter cream dam around the edge does help as the curd likes to ooze. The curd is by far my favorite part of the cake and I always make more than I need for the cake for eating with a spoon or on an english muffin. Like everyone else I adore it and could and do eat it by the spoonful. My recipie came from The Cake Bible
Amish Country
in Pennsylvania: Dining
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Something to think about at one of those Amish family dinners. You will be asked for a "donation" and told to place it under the plate so as not to sully the Amish with money. Guess what, they are having you in their homes for dinner for one reason. To make money. Any chance that kitchen was inspected by local authorities? Think they have a license? Wonder if the dishes and silver are santized as the law requires? Wonder if it is fair to business owners who do have to pay for all those things. If you want to do it go ahead. Just remember you are eating in what is really an unlicensed and uninspected restaurant.
If you think it is some neat cultural excahnge deal, think again. The food MAY be authentic, but it is a businees transaction you are involved in