LITTLE-KNOWN FOOD FACT
IT TAKES ABOUT 48 APPLES TO MAKE A GALLON OF APPLE CIDER, SAYS SHELLY SCHIERMAN, OWNER OF LOUISBURG CIDER MILL IN LOU!SBURG.
Take a scenic one-hour road trip from Lawrence to the cider mill where you can sample cider and watch them bottle it, meander through the giant corn maze, then buy a jug of cider for the ride home. Take K-10 east to 69 south, then go east on K-68, and you're in cider heaven.
Source: louisburgcidermill.com
■ Rikki Kite
DID YOU KNOW.
SAVE THE SEEDS WHEN YOU YANK THOSE PUMPKIN GUTS FROM YOUR JACK-O'-LANTERN THIS YEAR.
Remove the pulp and rinse the seeds in a strainer. Toss them in some olive oil and seasonings (Cajun spices work great), spread them on a cookie sheet and bake at 300 degrees for about 40 minutes or until seeds are lightly browned.
In addition to being crunchy and delicious, pumpkin seeds contain protein, fiber, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium, folate, niacin and linolenic acid. Take a hay ride and pick your own pumpkins right out of the fields of Schaake's pumpkin patch, 1791 North 1500 Road (drive east on 15th Street out into the country, and you'll run right into it). Pumpkins are 30 cents a pound, says Sheila Lynch, Schaake's employee.
Source: herbalremedies.com
Rikki Kite
WESCOE WIT
Guy 1: I think I'm gonna start talking Ebonics. It'll really give me more street cred as a rapper.
Guy 2: But you're not a rapper.
Guy 1: Don't be frontin'.
Girl: Saw you got some action last night.
Guy: What?
Girl: Yeah, you made out with a girl.
Guy: I did?
Girl 1: You can't floss or do anything that would harm the baby when you're pregnant.
Girl 2:(nods)
Girl 1: Flossing your teeth is just too dangerous.
**Guy 1:** Are the yellow pages online?
**Guy 2:** I think so.
**Guy 1:** You gotta look at the yellow pages,
man.
**Girl:** What am I doing with my life? Watching the weather channel and writing on the Grey's Anatomy blog site.
**Guy:** No, (pause) you didn't.
**Girl:** What? I had a lot to say about this week's episode.
Jacky Carter