“Try the grey stuff, it’s delicious. Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes!”
We didn’t have a Disney Dinner tonight, but I did make a dessert from Delicious Disney. “Grey Stuff.” The classically dubious dish mentioned in Beauty and the Beast‘s “Be Our Guest.” Except this wasn’t dubious at all…it was delicious! It consisted of cookies and cream pudding piped onto homemade sugar cookies. Mine didn’t turn out quite as pretty as the picture in the book, but it was still fun and tasty!
If you know anything about me, you know I love themed meals and hands-on activities. When I started planning our Disney-focused summer school (details to come!) to coincide with our postponed family vacation, I knew I had to find some kind of cookbook to go with our experience. I really hit the jackpot, because a new cookbook created for the 50th anniversary of Disney World was recently published, and it contains recipes from all kinds of park locations!
I planned our first “Disney Dinner” to go with the last day of the 2021-22 homeschool year last week…a real kick-off to summer vacation! We started the meal with a Disney classic, the Orange Bird Flip. Yes, it contains raw eggs, which might be scary or disgusting to some, but we liked it!
The main course was Puerco en Salsa Verde from the Mexican pavilion at Epcot. In addition to cooking the pork, I also fried the potatoes and made the salsa verde from scratch (which may have been a mistake, because now my family wants me to never buy jarred salsa verde again!)…I was pretty proud of the effort I put in!
For dessert, I made the Brown Derby’s grapefruit cake:
Yes, you noticed correctly…I even bought two special serving pieces to go with our Disney Dinners…and Orange Bird cup and what is technically a Mickey Mouse pasta bowl, but also works well as a plate. In the end, they’ll make good souvenirs as well as dishes! I’m looking forward to trying more recipes from this cookbook (and one other one I already had) this summer!