WHAT'S COOKING AT THE CRAFT FAIR?

— Food vendors at the Bella Vista Arts & Crafts Festival will offer a myriad of taste-bud-tempting selections for breakfast, lunch, dinner and, of course, snacks.

This year’s fare features:

  • Bella Caffe (Mitch Buckner): Hot and frozen cappuccino, lattes, hot chocolate, tea and coffee.
  • Bridget’s Concessions-N-More (Bridget Norton): Indian Tacos, pita wraps, fry bread, soups, beverages.
  • Carsten’s Concessions (Jerry Carsten): Beef or lamb gyros, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, teriyaki chicken-on-a-stick, haystack onion strings, butterfly potatoes, deepfried calamari, grilled chicken salad, deep-fried pickles, deep-fried cheese sticks, fried popcorn chicken, butterfly potatoes, deep-fried snickers, chocolate-dipped cheesecake, beverages.
  • Fish’s Funnel Cakes (Don Vansandt): Funnel cakes and fresh-squeezed lemonade.
  • Foxcreek Barbeque (Bill Daum): Pulled pork, chicken and brisket sandwiches; chicken and rib plates with slaw and beans.
  • Gourmet Kettle Korn (Darwin Halstad): Sweet glazed popcorn, bottled water.
  • Happy Food Concessions (Jill and Larry Thomas): Breakfast croissant with sausage, egg and cheese, biscuits and sausage gravy, honey buns, steak finger basketswith string fries and pepper gravy, fish sandwich baskets, fish baskets, chicken wings, Frito chili pie, Polish sausage on a bun, bratwurst burgers, Martian fries (fried green beans), beverages.
  • Keck’s Longhorn Root Beer (Gary and Connie Keck): Homemade root beer, beef jerky.
  • Louisiana on Wheels (Wayne and Kay Benbow): Jambalaya, red beans and rice with sausage and andouille, crawfish etouffee, gumbo, bread pudding with rum sauce, beverages.
  • Made2Grill (Mark Stallbaumer and Rick Sedlacek): Pancake, sausage and egg breakfast sandwiches, homemade bratwurst, chicken sandwiches, chicken strips, pork tenderloin sandwiches, turkey legs, twister fries, beverages.
  • Nuts and More (Hazel Purkey): Homemade ice cream, frozen chocolatecovered bananas, mixed dried fruits, chocolatecovered nuts, pecan logs, frozen cheesecake, peanut brittle, spicy pickles, frozen lemonade.
  • Original Corn Roast (Frank and Lisa Stringer): Corn on the cob, baked white and sweet potatoes, apple dippers, hot cider, cocoa, beverages.
  • Springhill Concessions (Blake and Sally Lieblong): Jumbo corn dogs, drinks.
  • Tasler’s Pork Rinds (Ronald and Janice Tasler): Pork rinds, ribbon fried sweet potatoes, beverages.

Area, Pages 26 on 09/28/2011