Roasted Garlic and Grilled Eggplant Whipped Potatoes

Epcot Events

I know, I know. The picture looks like crud on a plate. I don't know how to make it look any prettier. The good news is that this recipe is awesome! It wasn't nearly as time consuming as I thought it would be. Who would think that eggplant and mashed potatoes would go well together, but it was amazing! High recommendations to make this!  4 mickeys.

Tony's Meatball Sub Sandwich

Tony's Town Square Restaurant - Main Street U.S.A., Magic Kingdom

It's great that this recipe piggy backs off of the last one, especially since the meatball recipe makes tons of meatballs! While you do make the meatballs, the rest is just store bought. I used shredded mozzarella instead of sliced because I already had it at home. I also used Tony's House sauce in place of spaghetti sauce. I honestly think that using store bought sauce would make it better. 3 mickeys.

Fettucine and Meatballs

Tony's Town Square Restaurant - Main Street U.S.A., Magic Kingdom

This recipe is made in 3 parts - the fettucini, Tony's House Sauce, and Tony's Italian Meatballs. Let's start with each one. The fettucini is just cooked pasta. I'm sure it would be really good if you bought it fresh. I didn't, I bought it walmart brand. :-)  The sauce was not bad. I think it would have been better had I had the ability to follow the recipe closer. It called for 12 oz. of tomato paste, which I thought for sure I had (noticing a trend in my brainless dinner planning?) but didn't. So I added more tomato puree instead. In all honestly, the sauce is really bland and boring. Add enough Parmesan cheese on the top and it's fine.  The meatballs, on the other hand, were great. I would make them again. Since they use both Italian sausage and ground beef, they have a bit of a kick to them. 2 mickeys for the sauce, 4 for the meatballs, which levels us out at 3 mickeys.

Ham & Rice Salad

Polynesian Buffet - Polynesian Village Resort   Top of the World - Comtemporary Resort

I admit that I thought I had peas for this recipe...and didn't. So ignore the missing little green round things. Other than that, it has all the ingredients :-) This sounded like a good salad, but we were highly confused when we ate it. I can't tell if I like it or hate it. The flavor is strange - unlike anything I've ever tasted. Of course I've tasted all the ingredients, but not in that combination. For that reason, I give it 2 mickeys, because I clearly don't know what my opinion is, other than I didn't keep eating it. 

 

Shrimp De Jonghe

The Land Grille Room - The Land, EPCOT

 I have finally gotten to another seafood recipe! I might be on these for awhile!

Since I don't east shellfish, I am again relying on my husbands opinion. I did, however, take a taste of the sauce.  The recipe was very easy to make. I like things that require only mixing and sticking in the oven. My husband said it was a bit overpowered by the bread. It wasn't terrible, but he wouldn't order it.
3 mickeys.

Chicken Sarasota

Concourse Grille - Contemporary Resort

First off, let me stop you from making my mistake. You need to marinate the chicken overnight. I did do this, but it pushed this dinner back to another night. Next, don't cut the ham this thick. I cut it insanely thick. Where is the chicken you might ask? Oh, it's there, buried under a gigantic piece of ham.  After you marinate and cook the chicken you are supposed to grill it. I made this in January. You guessed it, we didn't grill it. We cooked it on the stovetop. Even with the marinade, once you add the Hickory Barbecue Sauce you can't taste the marinade, which is a shame because it smelled really good.
3 mickeys.

Melanzane Alla Parmigiana

L'Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante - Italy, EPCOT

In all honestly, it's been awhile since I made this recipe, so I'm going off of pure memory and a few notes. While this same name was used for a recipe in the 1986 cookbook, this one is actually a bit different. This first recipe was served in the Contemporary Resort while this one is in EPCOT. Alredo's opened in 1982 and closed, turning into Tutto Italia in 2007. For more information about these changes go to www.yesterland.com. They have some great back history on Disney.   The recipe itself was fairly easy and fast to prepare. A good eggplant parmigiana if you need a recipe, but nothing that stands out as fantastic.
4 mickeys.