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In the Disney Kitchen – Disney Dream
Thanks to the Disney Insider email newsletter for the great summer salad sampler which included this yummy salad and dressing recipe!
Avocado-Citrus Salad
Royal Palace, Disney Dream
Serves 4
Citrus Dressing
Ingredients:
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
1/2 lime, juiced
2/3 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Method:
Combine orange juice and lime juice in a medium bowl. Slowly drizzle in oil, salt and pepper, whisking vigorously until combined. If making in advance, re-whisk before serving.
Avocado-Citrus Salad
Ingredients:
4 navel oranges
3 ripe Hass avocados, halved and pitted
6 cups mixed baby lettuce
Method:
1. Cut peel, including the white pith, from the oranges with a small knife. Cut segments free from membranes; set segments aside and discard membranes.
2. Cut avocadoes into 3/4-inch-thick slices.
3. Divide mixed greens among 4 salad bowls. Top with 5 avocado slices and 5 to 8 orange segments; drizzle lightly with dressing. Serve immediately. (I added grape tomatoes and crumbled feta to mine before serving.)
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Disney World Food Cravings: Dad’s Traditional Meatloaf with Recipe
What is it? Dad’s Traditional Meatloaf – a blend of beef and pork topped with tomato glaze, mashed potatoes, and green beans
Where can you get it? 50′s Prime Time Cafe Disney Hollywood Studios
How do I make it?
Recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
2 lb ground beef
1 lb ground pork
4 eggs
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
½ cup diced onions
1/4 cup diced green peppers
1/4 cup diced red peppers
2 Tbsp worcestershire sauce
Cracked black pepper to taste
Kosher salt to taste
½ cup Meatloaf Glaze (recipe below)
METHOD:
Dice peppers and onions and set aside for later use. Combine meats and seasonings. Add vegetables. Place meat mixture in oiled loaf pan. Bake at 350º F oven for 1 hour (internal temp 155º).
Brush meatloaf with meatloaf glaze. Bake another 10 minutes. Let meatloaf set 10 minutes, cut loaf and serve.
MEATLOAF GLAZE
INGREDIENTS:
½ cup ketchup
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tsp Dijon mustard
½ Tsp worcestershire sauce
METHOD:
Combine all ingredients until mixture is smooth and drizzle on top.
How to make your own Dole Whip’s
Who can resist this delicious Disney dessert? The Dole Whip! Once you had one your body will crave it..
Here is how to make your own Dole Whip’s at home. All you need is the mix from Unified Enterprises and a ice cream maker. I would use one that allows you to make soft serve ice cream.
Quick Tip – I found a nice Cuisinart that I am going to order from here. It’s $74 new or $60 used. Will be good for making regular ice cream after I make some Dole Whips!
Check out the video below from Inside the Magic where they use a regular ice cream maker and whip up some yummy treats!
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In the Disney Kitchen: Napa Rose
Disneyland Resort is home to some great dining experiences. One of the signature restaurants here can be found in the Grand Californian Hotel. Nape Rose is a fan favorite and in the Disney kitchen, I recreated an appetizer I have never had or seen from the menu here! Napa Rose’s Glorious Tomatoes recipe can not be found online so I urge any interested readers to pick up my favorite Disney cookbook where you can find the recipe for the Cider Vinaigrette used the in recipe below.
Ingredients
- 1 heirloom tomato per person being served (recipe assumes 4)
- Sea salt and black pepper, to taste
- 1/3 cup basil leaves, torn into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1/3 cup Cider Vinaigrette
- 1/2 cup diced onions
- 3 slices applewood smoked bacon
- 3/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
Directions
- Slices tomatoes thickly and sprinkle with salt, basil, cider dressing, onions, and bacon (the tomato slices will look like little pizzas)
- Stack tomatoes 3-4 layers high, sprinkle with blue cheese
- Garnish with remaining bacon, cheese, chives
- Drizzle any remaining smaller pieces with basil, salt, pepper, vinaigrette, and scatter around tomato stacks
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In the Disney Kitchen: Squirt the Sea Turtle Cupcakes
Not long ago, a friend sent me a link to the DisneyFamily.com Squirt cupcakes. This recipe combined two things my friend knew I loved: Squirt from Finding Nemo and baking!! I adore turtles and these are so non-specific they don’t need to be part of a Finding Nemo party at all! I made them for a family barbecue to try and impress my nephews! 
You can follow the link to check out the AWESOME recipe posted on the Disney Family website, but I made some changes so I am going to post my modified directions here!
Ingredients:
- Cupcakes
- Frosting
- Blue Crystal Sprinkles
- Large Gum Drops
- Mini Chocolate Morsels
- Spearmint Leaves Gummies
- Skewers or toothpicks (I actually used chopsticks instead since I forgot to buy either)
Keep in mind, you may want to purchase two bags of the large gum drops. One bag only gave me enough red/orange drops to make shells for 10 turtle cupcakes. Either that, or get creative with shell colors!
First order of business- make your cupcakes!!
While you are waiting for your cupcakes to bake and cool I suggest a trial run of the little turtles!
You can use plain vanilla frosting, or even make it blue. I decided to go with the sugary theme of the gum drops and use blue crystal sprinkles to make my sea of frosting.
Shell: Trim about 1/4 inch off the bottom of a red or orange gum drop and place in center of cupcake
Head: Trim about 1/4 inch off the bottom of a green gum drop. Squish the newly chopped sticky sides together so you can make your head a round ball. It takes a little working and rolling around but once you do it once, you can do it easily. Then take your skewer (or toothpick or chopstick) and poke holes where you want to eyes to go on your head. Put a little dot of frosting on the end of a mini morsel and insert into the eye hole you created. Set entire head near the shell on your cupcake.
Legs: For each turtle’s 4 legs you will need only one spearmint leaf. Slice your leaf into two, horizontally so that you now have 2 leaves. Cut a half oval out of each leaf. The ovals will be your back legs, place them in the anatomically correct place on your cupcake sugary side up. Then the remaining pieces of your spearmint leaf will be his front legs. Simply place them sugary side up so his flippers can meet the middle of the shell and still sit entirely on the cupcake.
It may be easier to do this by looking at pictures than reading my descriptions. I found that after buying the ingredients for the original recipe I did not like the shape of the head and the big gum drops trimmed down made an easier shell without having to add sour peach flavor to my cupcake that already had so many other flavors going on. And, after making these I will say- they were a bigger hit with the adults at the party than the kids!! They are perfect for any summer soirée!! (:
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