Disney Food Post Round-Up: December 5, 2010

Welcome to the first Disney Food Post Round-Up of December 2010!! As always, we’ll begin with the news:

Don’t forget to vote in our DFB Choice Awards! The awards have been set up so that Disney Food Blog readers can help future Disney-trippers by letting their favorite restaurants be known! You can vote through December 22nd.
Disney’s launched its own snack chip line in the parks!
Take a look at some new Le Cellier menu items.
The Coke Freestyle Machine, featuring 106 flavors, is now at WDW’s Downtown Disney movie theater.
Disney World Annual Passholders can get a free (small) bag of Karamell Kuche caramel corn from December 4-11! Just show a valid photo ID with your Annual Pass to get the treat.

Also, I’d like to share with you a very special holiday request from a very special colleague. The SamLand’s Disney Adventures Blog is reaching out to the Disney Community to help raise funds for Women at Work, a nonprofit focused on helping people learn career skills and find employment. Please stop over to SamLand to read his request on behalf of this great organization.

Now, on to the round-up!

ABC News has a showcase of Mickey Shaped Food! (Thanks to Erin Foster for the heads up!)

Main Street Gazette reviews the WDW Contemporary Resort’s Contempo Cafe.

DLRP Magic shares the great news that Disneyland Paris has just added restaurant menus to their site!

Yesterland shares the history of L’ Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante in Epcot (an oldie, but a goodie).

DisneyShawn gives us more Club 33 goodness.

Party Through the Parks highlights more holiday drinks at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Disney Dream’s Remy Restaurant Menu Sneak Peek

By AJ 6 Comments

The newest Disney Cruise Ship, Disney Dream, is introducing Remy Restaurant, a second adults-only restaurant (the other ships have only Palo), and it’s a stunner!

Disney Parks Blog has posted some sneak peeks of the menu and photos of the Chef’s Table area at Remy — definitely worth a look! You can see a couple of the photos below, along with a video about Remy and its [Read more…]

Disney Food Pics of the Week: “Who’s the Leader of the Club…”

By AJ 3 Comments

Thanks to all who have contributed their photos to the Disney Food Blog Photo Extravaganza! Keep sending them along! This week, the Disney Food Pics of the Week feature the leader of the club — Mickey himself — as represented in food!

A classic cupcake with Mickey sprinkles — it doesn’t get any more Disney than that! Photographer: Angela Sledz

A dessert from the Vulcania Restaurant in Tokyo DisneySea! [Read more…]

Tables in Wonderland December Event: Holiday Spirits Dinner

By AJ 7 Comments

A new Tables in Wonderland event for December! This Holiday Spirits Dinner lets guests see inside the hidden lounge in the Epcot Norway pavilion as well as experience the Candlelight Processional!

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“This is the time of the year most people look forward to, especially for the family gatherings around the dinner table. Come celebrate at a traditional holiday feast with your fellowTables in Wonderland members.”

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Friday December 17th, 2010, at [Read more…]

DIY Disney: Chai Cream from Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

By AJ 35 Comments

Today, Chef Big Fat Panda’s DIY Disney Recipes column brings us a sweet treat from Animal Kingdom Lodge’s Sanaa! Thanks to Chef Bob Getchell for sending along the recipe. Take it away, Panda!

Chef Mickey with Ingredients

Hello Disney Foodies! Boy, do I have a treat for you!

I want to be honest and tell you that I procrastinated about this recipe a bit. It is totally out of my comfort zone because I fell into the same trap that I warn against time after time. If you have ever read my articles, you know that I advise you not to “fear the ingredients” — that you can often make a recipe work with a substitution. Well, I feared the ingredients (you’ll see why). We then decided to approach this fantastic dessert from a different perspective. We thought — Let’s try to be as true to the recipe as possible, while finding alternatives that are readily available to most people. With that freedom, here it goes… and after the result, I am glad I stopped being scared of Sanaa’s Chai Cream!

As usual, the recipe’s instructions will be bolded for easy [Read more…]

Disney Brands Its Own Snack Chip Line

By AJ 15 Comments

Disney has forged ahead in branding yet another product its guests consume large quantities of each day — snack chips!

Disney Snack Chip Line

That’s right, instead of Lays brand, guests will be receiving Disney brand chips, cheese curls, tortilla chips, and BBQ chips with their [Read more…]

DFB Choice Awards Voting Now Open

By AJ 18 Comments

Thanks to all who submitted nominations for the 2010 DFB Choice Awards! After going through nearly 500 nomination forms, the front-runners in each category have earned a spot in the polls.

These nominees were chosen by the readers of the Disney Food Blog, and each one was nominated dozens — or, in some cases, hundreds — of times. If your favorite didn’t make it into the top three, don’t forget to nominate it again next year!

Voting has begun; make your views known below! Voting will remain open until December 22nd, and winners will be announced on December 31st! We’ll leave the results viewable for now, so you can root for your favorite! As we get closer to the final voting deadline, we’ll remove the results so the winners will be a surprise! 🙂

Thank you for voting! Polls are now closed. We will reveal the DFB Choice Award Winners on December 31st!

Disney Food For Families: Steal This Idea — Mini Disney Cupcakes at Home

By Erin 18 Comments

The next post from our Disney Food for Families Columnist, Erin Foster, focuses on one of my favorite things: cupcakes! Erin and her daughters did some experimenting to answer a question asked by a reader in a recent comment… . Here we go!

My daughters and I have been long fascinated not only with the taste of the food at Disney restaurants (yum), but also with the incredible presentation of many of the dishes — particularly the desserts. Over the years, we’ve ~~borrowed~~ stolen several Disney dessert presentations and adapted them for our own parties and celebrations. When we saw the recent post here about the new mini cupcakes being sold at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, we knew that this was an idea just begging to be tried at home.

This is the Disney version of the mini cupcake; our goal was to see if we could make these as a sweet treat to bring to some upcoming holiday parties or perhaps give them as a little personal add-on to some [Read more…]

Guest Review: New Menus and Menu Items at Le Cellier Steakhouse

By AJ 20 Comments

Guest author Sarah Holodick has once again brought us some incredible info and a great review! Here’re her thoughts and photos from a recent lunch at Le Cellier — along with pics of the new menus and new menu items! Take it away, Sarah!

Back in May, yes MAY, I booked a lunch at Le Cellier for Matt and myself on October 23rd. Comparing it to the dinner I had there about a week prior, there was no contest; lunch was MUCH better. We had a 12:20 reservation and checked in just after noon. There were fairly heavy crowds that day – here is the line for [Read more…]

“I Can’t Believe I Hadn’t Tried This!” Disney Desserts Edition

By AJ 15 Comments

As you know, I am on a quest. I’d like to dine at every single Disney restaurant and try every single Disney “cult status” fan favorite still available today (sadly, that does not include beaver tails, RIP). I’d been doing a pretty good job at moving forward on my mission, but I had a few secrets I kept hidden — dishes I’d never, ever tried until this year, even though they were serious favorites of Disney guests the world over.

We like to be honest around here, so I’m going to start coming clean by giving you a list of a few Disney desserts I hadn’t really tried until my past few trips — along with what I thought of them. Ready? Here we go!

Yak and Yeti Fried Cream Cheese Won-tons
Once upon a time, a fun new restaurant in Disney’s Animal Kingdom called Yak and Yeti introduced a fun twist on the standard Asian won-ton. By stuffing won-ton skins with sweet cream cheese, frying them up, and pairing them with pineapples and sweet sauce, this is one non-chocolate dessert that will steal your heart and your taste buds.

Lots of folks claim that it’s not sweet enough, but I really enjoyed it. It’s a good, relatively light dessert to share, and the best part is: it suits hot days and cold days — perfect for all temps in WDW.

Yak and Yeti Fried Cream Cheese Wontons

Le Cellier Smores
Billed as a kids’ dessert, most Disney veterans have at least heard about the smores if they haven’t tried them. Presentation is key here — two gourmet “graham cracker” cookies are coated in [Read more…]

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