Yum! Another great surprise! This was again really easy to make. Brown the chicken, cook the broccoli, make the sauce, and stick it all in a casserole dish and bake it. I love the simplicity of it, yet it had great flavor. 4 mickeys!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Chicken Divan
Yum! Another great surprise! This was again really easy to make. Brown the chicken, cook the broccoli, make the sauce, and stick it all in a casserole dish and bake it. I love the simplicity of it, yet it had great flavor. 4 mickeys!
Chocolate Mousse
Awesome, awesome surprise! It takes a bit of work but is well worth the effort. In reality, it didn't take very long. The longest part was melting the chocolate. In all, you just have to have a bit of patience with this recipe...wait for it to melt right, and wait for the mousse to peak right, then gently fold the two together. So so good. I used semi-sweet bakers chocolate instead of semi-sweet morsels and it worked out very well. This is a must make, so I included the recipe. 5 giant mickeys!
5 oz semi-sweet chocolate, melted
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1/4 cup cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 egg whites
1/4 cup sugar
Melt chocolate over hot water (I have a melt setting on my stove top so I used that instead). Remove. Combine egg yolks and cream (Note: Do this while melting). Gradually add to chocolate, stirring rapidly. Add vanilla. Beat egg whites with sugar until stiff peaks form (Note: also do this while melting chocolate. If you let the choc. sit to do these things it will stiffen and bad things will come of it :-) ). Gently fold into chocolate mixture. Chill until firm.
Polynesian Cauliflower Salad
Once again, a disappointing salad. Mix cauliflower, canned mushrooms, and vinaigrette dressing and there you have it. Nothing excited. If you want to try it I suggest you half the recipe...or quarter it. I made the whole thing and we have a ton of left over salad that neither of us has any desire to eat.
Zucchini Salad
I love Zucchini, but this salad let me down. I like my zucchini warm and cooked...this is cold and raw. A basic sliced zucchini in vinaigrette dressing. Nothing exciting. We struggle to make ourselves finish the leftovers. Sorry zucchini salad...2 mickeys.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie
Quite a bit of time has passed since Cooking with Mickey Volume 1... 14 years to be exact. In this book a ton of new recipes from resorts and new restaurants within the parks pop up. This dessert is from Narcoosee's, a restaurant over the Seven Seas lagoon where you can observe the fireworks during dinner. The resort opened in 1988 and has since seen some renovations and changed it's name to Disney's Grand Floridian Beach Resort and Spa.
Back to the food. If you haven't guessed already, I have a soft spot for sweets, baked goods especially. This recipe is no different. What are two of my favorite things? Chocolate and pecan pie. This combines both. Think warm melted chocolate through a sweet, sticky pecan pie. Amazing. The recipe says to serve it at room temperature, but I prefer ed to warm mine up just a tad to get the chocolate melty again. :-) 4 mickeys.
Beef Fillet with Fresh Ground Pepper
This is great! A few side tips...don't use round steak to be cheap like I did, it will be much better with actual fillets. That being said, the flavor is still awesome. You even get a chance to flambe, or set your stove on fire, which ever you do best. The sauce for the top is great too. If you changed the base from beef stock to pork stock you could put this on pork chops and it would also be amazing. The great thing? It only took a few minutes and very little prep! That's the kind of recipe I like! 4 mickeys!
Broccoli and vegetable Salad with Curry Sauce
Yum! At first it sounds gross...curry, mayonnaise, veggies? But it's really good. I have to admit, I put it up to my mouth and sniffed it first. But if you try it, you will like it! Now, that being said, you need to like curry. It doesn't have a strong curry flavor but it is noticeable. I thought this was a great twist on a normal veggie salad. Once again, it's another way to use up some of that Disney Vinaigrette dressing that TONS of the salad recipes call for. My advice? Make up a big batch of it and then take a week to just keep making salads. It's a bit annoying to keep making it over and over again. This is the second time I've made the dressing and I'm pretty sure I will be making it one more time before this book is over. 3 mickeys!
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