Food-Related Items Sold at 2018 Benefit
Meals in Homes
The donor agrees to serve a meal at their home, unless otherwise specified, on a mutually agreeable date with the buyer. The donor specifies the number of people to be invited and usually designates a certain type of meal—anything from pizza to a brunch, a holiday meal, a home-style meat-and-potato meal, grilled meal, Amish meal, etc. After arranging the date, the buyer invites his/her guests to the meal. Unless otherwise noted, meals expire one year from this year's benefit. Meals donated for the 2018 Benefit included the following:
Treat yourself to a "buyers choice" of Saturday brunch, Saturday night meal, or Sunday noon for 6-8 people at Derek and Nici Bontrager's rural Kalona home.
Enjoy Fried Chicken with all the trimmings including dessert for 12 people at the Amish homestead of Warren and Ila Miller, rural Kalona One 9 x 13 pan of Cinnamon Rolls made by Maxine Mast each month for one year beginning January 2019. Please give 1 week notice. Delivered in Kalona; otherwise please pick up. (Two of these will be offered) Bruce and Karen Harvey offer a Thai meal BUT this is NOT a duplicate of the regular Thai meal with several entrees. This is a Northern Thai soup meal with a Chicken Curry Soup over noodles with various toppings. Makes a great lunch or winter evening meal. For 6-8 people. John Yutzy donates 4 certificates, each for 6 qts. of Yutz's home made ice cream. Choose your flavor! Use before November, 2019. Marc and June Hershberger of Die Heimat Country Inn, Homestead, are offering a breakfast for ten people on a Monday through Friday in the month of December, 2018. Treat yourself to a Chinese Dumpling meal for 4-6 people at Isaac and Emily Hooley's Iowa City Home! Guests can choose to come and help make/assemble the dumplings or just come and enjoy the food. Start your day right with a morning brunch for 8 people at Loretta Kauffman's secluded country home near Iowa City. Experience a Brazilian/Dominican meal for 8 persons in Galen Graber and Ruth Brenneman's rural Wellman home. Enjoy an old-fashioned, traditional meal at Loran and April Yoder's Frytown home for 10 people. Use before May 1, 2019. Served at East Union Mennonite Church, rural Kalona, 16 people will enjoy a mystery dinner by Mary Helen Miller and Grace Rempel on Friday, Feb 15, 2019, 6 pm. Sold by the plate. You will use a menu with clues to order food for each course. (NOT a murder mystery) Experience the outdoors with a picnic meal for 8-10 people in the timber of Larry and Carolyn Detweiler's. This includes a hayride, swings, outdoor games and hiking. This creative meal for 10 people offered by Jerry and Lou Miller will be cooked in a stainless steel cream can and served in their barn, preferably during mid summer through autumn. Expect to have fun! Julia Stutzman offers Pizza at Stone Wall Pizza for 4 people. Use during the summer of 2019 during regular business hours. Carl and Donna Darby and Kathy Scheuerman will serve a Fondue Meal for 8 People at Darby's Iowa City Home. Enjoy an outdoor wood-fired pizza dinner party for 8 people at Roger and Cindi Schrock's Frytown home. 6 people are invited to a traditional family style meal given by the Great Bluegrass Herons followed by 45 minutes of Live Music. Enjoy a traditional, family-style meal for 8 people in the home of Henry JC and Ila Miller, or she will bring it to your home. Expires in one year. Participate in a Pizza Night at Geyer's Oven Pizza, Rural Oxford for 6 people. Use in summer, June-September 2019 on nights the oven is regularly open. Experience a Thai Meal with several entrees for 6-8 people at Bruce and Karen Harvey's home in Kalona sometime between January 1 and November 1, 2019. A fun evening is in store for 4-8 people as they partake in a Homemade Pizza and Game Night at Dick and Susan See's Washington home. Guests can choose from the many board and trivia games, carom, cards, etc. the See's have, OR bring your own games. Or just sing around their piano! Marcia Miller and Lauralee Kauffman offer a Ladies Tea for 8 in Marcia's rural Kalona home. Use before Nov. 1, 2019. Roger and Janet Stutzman offer a meal for 8-10 people. Menu will be arranged with the buyer. Experience a "Bad Taste Dinner Party" for 8 people at Firman and Susan Gingerich's Tiffin home. Date is negotiable "at everybody's inconvenience." Menu will include food your mother never served on Sunday. Guests should come to party dressed in bad taste; bad manners will be expected. This party is not for the faint of heart! Nyle & Lauralee Kauffman will serve a traditional meal at their home in rural Iowa City for 10-12 people. You are invited to the home of Ellis & Marcia Miller, rural Kalona, where you will be served a 5-course dinner on WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 at 6:00 pm. Weather permitting, the dessert bar will be served on the patio. This meal will be sold BY THE SINGLE PLATE, with a total of 12 plates to be sold. Roy and Janet Beachy, Kalona, offer a pork dinner for 8-10 people at their home. Warm up to a 4 course soup supper for 8 people at Marv and Grace Rempel's Frytown home this winter. |
Other Food Items
The Sale will begin traditionally, with the sale of a home-made loaf of bread, made and donated by Dr. Scott Eberly, Medical Director of Pleasantview.
Sweet Night of Music is back!
Bring your friends to The Home Place Retreat for sweet desserts and even sweeter music!
Listen to The Old Man Band and Young Ramblers and Friends. This is a casual, outdoor event - bring your chair! And your sweet tooth.
When: Saturday, June 8, 2019 (rain date: Sunday, June 9) @ 7 PM
Tickets will be auctioned at the Benefit by the ticket and take as many as you wish. Purchase tickets for yourself and all your friends for an enjoyable evening!
Donated by Carey and Joani Miller and the musicians.
Noodles from Kalona Noodles
Wild Cat raw honey donated by James Miller, Wellman.
Large cans of peanuts donated anonymously.
Eggs supplied by Farmers Hen House, Kalona.
Gift bag from Trader Joe's with multiple Trader Joe products: Caramel apple flavored granola,
Pumpkin tortilla chips, Dried honeycrisp apples, 1 pound 72% cacao dark chocolate, French roast whole bean coffee, frosted toaster pastries, salted caramel hot cocoa mix, cherry preserves,
chocolate salted caramel mug mix, peanut butter, fall harvest salsa, autumnal harvest soup, pumpkin spiced pumpkin seeds, canned pumpkin.
Iowa Farmhouse Horseradish Sauce (8 oz) and Plum Preserve (17.5 oz) donated by the Iowa Farmhouse & Barntiques.
Fat-Free, 2%, whole, and chocolate milk donated by Kalona Organics the day of the Benefit.
Twin County Dairy, Inc donated the popular Jarlsberg and Baby Swiss wheels for many years. They are no longer in operation, but we will have this same cheese available in limited quantities this year.
Locally grown beef and pork (USDA inspected) will be sold in frozen packages.
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