Pork

WILLIAMSPORT, Md. - A pork and sauerkraut dinner will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at Zion Lutheran Church's fellowship hall, 35 W. Potomac St. The cost is a freewill offering to benefit the building fund.

Calvary Temple, 147 S. Conococheague St. in Williamsport, will hold a pork and sauerkraut dinner on New Year's Day from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets cost $6 for adults and $3 for those ages 3 to 12. The menu includes pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, green beans and corn, dessert and drinks.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg hosted its 12th annual pork and sauerkraut dinner Monday night. Money raised at the event goes to Lutheran Social Services programs. Twelve area congregations were involved and more than 160 pounds of the main dish were prepared for the dinner.

WILLIAMSPORT - A pork and sauerkraut dinner will be held Saturday, Feb. 26, at Williamsport United Methodist Church, 25 E. Church St., from 4 to 7 p.m. The dinner was postponed because of bad weather in January. The dinner will be served by the Williamsport United Methodist Men's group. The menu will include mashed potatoes, green beans, beverage and dessert. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $4 for children ages 6 to 12.

By JULIE E. GREENE / Staff Writer photo: JOE CROCETTA / staff photographer WAYNESBORO, Pa. - After almost 30 years in the business, Max Hade doesn't know whether he'll be able to continue hog farming. [cont. from front page ] Hade, like several other hog farmers in the Tri-State area, has taken steps to sustain the farm - his main livelihood - in the face of what some farmers say are the lowest hog prices in almost 60 years. "I'm losing money on every hog I sell," said Hade, of 4179 Clay Hill Road in Waynesboro.

If you have listened to the news lately, you know that the two greatest threats to America are terrorism and earmarks. I'll spot you the risk of terrorists. But if the second greatest problem we face is earmark spending, our nation certainly has much to be grateful for. An earmark is a form of pork-barrel spending, federal money that members of Congress steer toward pet projects. The value of these projects is seldom openly discussed. Nor are they publicized. Congress itself doesn't even know which of these projects it is approving when budgets are passed.

For almost 17 years, the Schmankerl Stube Bavarian Restaurant has stood sentry on the corner of Antietam and Potomac streets, a sometimes lonely bastion in the City of Hagerstown's ongoing efforts at reinventing itself. Other restaurants have come and gone, but the Stube has remained solid and dependable, offering robust, stick-to-the-ribs Germanic meals not inconsistent with the county's own Germanic history. Little Heiskel would have eaten here. Sometimes the problem with being so dependable is that folks start taking you for granted.

Slaw: 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar 1/2 cup julienned carrot 1/2 cup julienned daikon radish Kosher salt Seasoned pork: 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion 6 ounces ground pork 1 tablespoon roast pork seasoning mix, available in Asian markets Pinch garlic powder Pinch ground black pepper Sandwiches: 4 (10-inch)...

'Foolproof Chinese Cooking' By The Associated Press "Foolproof Chinese Cooking" (DK, $19.95) must be one of the most encouraging cookbook titles ever devised. And the book's easily made stir-fried pork with scallions is a recipe for even the most faint-hearted to try - it can be ready to serve in about half an hour. continued The book is written by Ken Hom, as companion volume to "Great Food," the public television series in which he appears. His earlier best-selling cookbooks include "Travels With a Hot Wok" (DK, 2000)

Do you know what's in the food you eat? The Herald-Mail Co. will award $50 to the person who can correctly name the food product that matches each of the following 10 ingredient lists. Ingredients are listed just about how they appear on specific products - minus information in parentheses - so be specific with your answers. Here are some other rules: - Herald-Mail employees and their relatives are not eligible to participate. - The individual who correctly names the most products will win. - If there's a tie, one winner will be drawn randomly from those who qualify.

Glenda McBee Bonfili is a member of Sons and Daughters of Italy. She is of Italian descent. She said this pork recipe has been handed down from her grandmother, Philomena Ferrari Billotti, who Bonfili called "Nona. " "My Italian grandmother grew up in San Genovera De Foria in southern Italy," Bonfili said by email. "She was married to my grandfather, Samuel, had one son and a second child on the way, when Samuel decided to move to America. " Samuel debarked in Boston, then moved to Clarksburg, W.Va., where he had relatives living.

Washington County will play host to a professional barbecue competition Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26, at Fort Ritchie in Cascade.  Dubbed “The Memorial Day Pignic,” the competition will feature 45 to 60 professional barbecue teams from the East Coast competing for more than $7,500 in cash prizes and awards.  Many of the teams competing have been featured on the TV show “BBQ Pitmasters” and include the KCBS National Team of...

Washington Square United Methodist Church will hold its pork and sauerkraut dinner Saturday, April 13, from 3 to 6 p.m. The menu also includes mashed potatoes, green beans, applesauce, bread, dessert and drinks. Tickets cost $8 for adults, $3.50 for those ages 6 to 10 and $2 for those ages 3 to 5. It will be eat in or carry out. The church is at 538 Washington Ave. and has parking off the alley near the back entrance. For tickets, call Mike Martin at 301-739-2653.   Mission Auxiliary to hold bake sale The Hagerstown Rescue Mission Ladies Auxiliary will hold an Easter bake sale at the thrift store Saturday, March 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The items for sale include cakes, cookies, pies, pickled eggs and other items.

“What a wonderful world it would be if each day each one of us would ask God to let us see others and love others the way that He does.” - Hagerstown “After reading the paper today and listening to the news every day, I kind of think that part of the reason our budget is so out of whack is because instead of voting on the bill the way the bill is put into the process, they add all that pork to it all the time. If it was voted on the way it was meant to be, without the pork, then our budget wouldn't be in the trillions like it is. I think that when I make a budget up and I make it for a certain thing, I can't afford to add no pork in it.” - Falling Waters, W.Va.

The traditional New Year's Day dinner of pork and sauerkraut came to Franklin County, Pa., by immigrants from Lancaster, Pa., and before that by immigrants from Germany, Robert Windemuth said Tuesday. Windemuth, a history teacher from Chambersburg, Pa., and his wife, Roberta, joined about 600 people at the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co., where the pork and sauerkraut tradition lived on Tuesday. Fire department members and friends put on annual dinners, including the New Year's feast, which bring in more than $20,000 for the fire department coffers.

Kevin Booth will present two Elvis shows and a tribute to Conway Twitty from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at Hagerstown Elks, 11063 Robinwood Drive, east of Hagerstown. Food is available for purchase and there is a cash bar. $10. Open to ages 18 and older. Event is a fundraiser. For tickets, call the Parent Child Center at 301-791-2224 or purchase at What a Tan, 108 Railway Lane, Hagerstown, or at J&M Grill, 816 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. 2. World premiere An advanced screening premiere of Chris Colfer's new film "Struck By Lightning.

Hempen Hill BBQ Bar & Catering's competition barbecue team, 420Q, have proof its barbecue is tasty. The team, 420Q, was named Maryland State Champion for the second year in a row and overall Grand Champion in the Pork in the Park BBQ Festival held April 20-22,  in Salisbury, Md. Jay Reeder, owner and pitmaster of Hempen Hill BBQ and 420Q, competed against 113 professional barbecue competition teams at the nation's second largest Kansas City...

Two Eastern Panhandle lawmakers in the state House of Delegates have sworn off pork. Yet there is no guarantee that the state money they have declined to request for local projects, also known as “pork barrel” projects, will not end up being spent elsewhere in the state, according to the House Finance Committee office. For the second consecutive year, Dels. Jonathan Miller, R-Berkeley, and Eric Householder, R-Berkeley/Jefferson, have not filed any requests for Community Participation Project, or CPP, grants on behalf of their constituents.

This is a whole breakfast served up in one pan. I'm using scrapple, or as some say pon haus.   Scrapple, or what is known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon haus, is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then pan-fried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste.