The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh – HONEY!, Hero Cake, Hero Shortbread Cookies with Jam, Succotash, Wheat Bread

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I’m so rumbly in my tumbly. Time to munch an early luncheon. Haha. I had forgotten how clever and witty Winnie the Pooh was. I was smiling the whole time and it really brightened my wife’s mood. Of course, when you think of Pooh bear, you automatically think of honey. I love honey. So this week was amazing for me.

Honey!!!!!

Pooh loves his honey. Here’s some honey!

(Credit: Disney)

Honey!!!

• Servings: Honey
• Time: honey?
• Difficulty: Easy-Medium
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Ingredients:

1 Honey	Honey
3 Honeys	With Honey
	Honey to taste

1. Stick your hand in honey pot or bee hive
2. EAT EAT EAT!

Pooh’s Hero Cake

At the end of the flood, Pooh erroneously gets made into a hero for eating honey out of a pot while he floated down the river. Graciously, Pooh let little Piglet  join in later in the movie. Even though Piglet was the real hero.  It amazes me how loving and unassuming all the characters are.

(Credit: Disney)

My wife wanted to try this soda cake recipe. Since we don’t really know what kind of cake Christopher Robin and friends are eating (other than it was pink with chocolate frosting), we decided to make it.

Pooh's Hero Cake

• Servings: 8
• Time: 30 mins
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

1 Box	White Cake Mix
1 Can	Strawberry Soda
1.5 containers	Chocolate Frosting

1. Place cake mix in the bowl. Don’t add any of the ingredients mentioned on the box.
2. Mix in strawberry soda
3. Put into baking pans and bake as instructed on box
4. Let cool and then frost with chocolate frosting

Piglet Hero Shortbread Cookies with Jam

Along with the Hero Cake, there were some cookies with jam centers.

(Credit: Disney)

Piglet Hero Shortbread Cookies with Jam

• Servings: 24
• Time: 60 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

1 cup	Butter
2/3 cup	Sugar
1/2 teaspoon	almond extract
1/2 teaspoon	vanilla extract
2 cups	flour
1/2 cup	Jam for the centers

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Beat in extract
3. Gradually blend in flour
4. Cover and refrigerate for an hour
5. Roll into one-inch balls and place one inch apart on un-greased cookie sheet
6. With the end of a wooden spoon make a indention in the ball and fill with jam
7. I have used Variety of jams and jellies Raspberry being the best! but Apricot is yummmie too, along with apple, blackberry, blueberry the possibilities are endless.
8. Bake at 350 for 14 to 18 minute.

Rabbit’s Wheat Bread

Pooh invades Rabbit’s house to get something to eat. Rabbit offers Pooh some bread with condensed milk or honey. Pooh responds “Honey please, but no bread” Oh silly bear.

(Credit: Disney)

But we made some wheat bread like rabbit and tried eating it with honey AND condensed milk

Rabbit's Wheat Bread

• Servings: 12
• Time: 2 hr 30 min
• Difficulty: Easy-Medium
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Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups	Hot water
1/3 cup	olive oil
1/3 cup	honey
2 tbs	molasses
1 tbs	salt
7 1/2 cups	wheat flour
2 tbs	dry active yeast

1. Place the first five ingredients in the bowl and mix.
2. Add: 2 Cups 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour. (to cool the water and end up with warm dough) Mix then add 2 Tbs of Dry Active Yeast. If your not sure about your yeast proof it in a little warm water first.
3. Add: 4 Cups of 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour.
4. Mix until the consistency is some what even. Then continue to slowly add flour 1/2 Cup at a time until the dough quits sticking to the sides of the bowl. It should be tacky to the touch. The trick is to have enough consistency to stand up with the least amount of flour so the bread will be fluffy. It will most likely be 6 1/2 cups but in any case do not exceed 7 1/2 cups of wheat flour. You can trade one cup of wheat flour for one cup of all purpose white if you wish. Don’t over mix or the bread will be tough.
5. When your dough is finished, leave it in the mixer, cover the bowl and let it rise for about 30-45 minutes. The dough will be larger but it doesn’t need to double.
6. Grease two bread pans with Crisco. You can also flour the pans to reduce sticking.
7. Mix the dough again just enough to knock it down at least close to the original size.
8. Drop the dough on a floured surface so you can work the dough and shape it. Shape it with your hands to make a nice ball getting enough flour on it so it isn’t sticky. Divide the ball in half and do it again. Shape the loaves by turning the dough under it’s self over and over. When the dough is shaped the sides and ends will be sealed and all you will see is a nice oblong shaped loaf with smooth sides and top. Drop the loaves in your bread pans and let them rise until almost doubled. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 36 minutes. If you forgot to preheat 41 minutes. (gas oven).
9. When done turn the bread out of the pan to a rack to cool. You can eat it right away (a great time for real butter) don’t wrap it until completely cooled. (Condensation will make it soggy) Put in tinfoil to store on the counter. If you put it in the refrigerator it will turn into a brick. Enjoy.

Gopher’s Ssssssssuccotash

Pooh gets fat and gets stuck in Rabbit’s hole. Gopher is hired to get him out. In the middle of the night he appears with a mighty fine lunch. Summer squash, Summer salad, succotash, and honey.

(Credit: Disney)

Since summer squash and summer salad are pretty straightforward, and we already covered honey, we made some succotash. I had never really known what it was. It actually is a pretty tasty side.

Gopher's Ssssssssuccotash

• Servings: 4
• Time: 40 mins
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

1 cup	butter
2 cups	fresh or frozen lima beans
1/2 teaspoon	salt
4	fresh tomatos
2 teaspoons	white sugar
3.5 cups	corn

1. Melt 1/2 cup butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in lima beans and salt, and cook until tender, about 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan heat tomatoes, sugar and remaining 1/2 cup butter.
3. Cook until tomatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
4. Stir tomatoes into lima beans and add corn; cook 10 minutes more.

Will it Stop the Rumbly in your Tumbly?

I love Winnie the Pooh. The show was so great and the food was tasty. I could probably just eat all the honey just like him. The cake had a nice twist. The bread was nice and moist and tasted great with honey and not as good with condensed milk, but still good. The cookies were nibbly numbly. The succotash was something I didn’t expect. It made for a great side. I might make it more often.

Verdict:

Honey – 15/10
Hero Cake – 8/10
Hero Cookies – 9/10
Wheat bread – 8/10
Succotash – 7.5/10

Alice in Wonderland – Drink Me (Layered Drink), Eat Me (Sugar Cookies), Bread and Butterflies, Oysters on the Half-shell, Unbirthday Cake, Edible Plate, Mushroom

Quick links: Drink Me | Eat Me | Bread and Butterfly | Oysters | Unbirthday Cake | Edible Plate | Mushroom | Verdict

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I’ve always wanted to eat a plate. This was my chance. There is tons of crazy food in Alice in Wonderland. And the best part is that, since it takes place in a “wonderland” there is no wrong way to make the food.  It was great fun experimenting how to do the Drink Me and finding a way to make an edible plate. Now, before you ask, we didn’t eat a clock. That is one of the most memorable things in the movie, but since it wasn’t prepared as a food, we didn’t make it. Sorry 😦

I forgot how entertaining Alice in Wonderland is too. The last time I had watched it, I was a little kid and half the movie went right over my head while the other half scared me. Watching it as an adult was much more enjoyable.

Drink Me (Cherry Tart, Custard, Pineapple, Roast Turkey Drink)

So you fall down a rabbit hole and land in a mysterious place? What is the first thing you do? Well drink a strange drink sitting on a table of course.

(Credit: Disney)

(Credit: Disney)

She even examines it and notes that it might be poison, but downs it anyway.

Well it never really shows what is inside the “Drink Me” bottle, but she describes the flavors. At first it tastes like cherry tart, and then like custard, then pineapple, then roast turkey. That meant I got to make a multi-layered drink!

Drink Me

• Servings: 6
• Time: 60 min
• Difficulty: Medium
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Ingredients:

Cherry Tart

1 pound	red cherries
2 pounds	sugar
1/2 pint	water
3 bottles	carbonated water (soda)

 

Custard

1.2 cups	milk
1/4 cups	cream
4	eggs yolks
2 Tbs	sugar
2 tablespoons	cornstarch
1 teaspoon	vanilla extract

Pineapple

1 can	Pineapple
1/4 c	Sugar
1 tsp	Lemon Juice

Roast Turkey

1/2 c	Turkey
1/4 c	Gravy
2 Tbs	Cranberry Sauce
1/2 c	Water
1/8 tsp	Chicken Bouillon
	Salt to Taste

Cherry Tart

1. Put the clean, seedless cherries and sugar in a saucepan. If you want your cherries on the super-tart side, add less sugar.
2. Cover the pan and leave at room temperature for 2 hours. The cherries need time to soak up the sweetness of the sugar. It’ll be so tangy that you’ll need the water to dilute it later.
3. Add the 1/2 pint of water and stir until all the sugar dissolves. You’re looking for one mostly uniform consistency (the cherry chunks will keep it from being entirely uniform).
4. Bring the contents up to a boil.
5. Then reduce the heat and simmer for fifteen minutes. It should maintain a light bubble the entire time, reducing the liquid and turning almost syrupy.
6. When finished, strain the mixture.
7. Squeeze all the moisture from the cherries into a separate saucepan. Don’t just strain it — really squeeze out all the juices. Simmer the strained liquid until it thickens like maple syrup.
8. Then take the pan off, let it cool to room temperature and move it to a sealed vessel for storage in a refrigerator
9. Put one or two spoons of it into a glass of soda water. Sparkling water (or even just water) works, too.
10. Feel free to experiment with the ratio to find your personal taste. It may take a try or two — but once you find the right combination, it’ll be easy.

Custard

1. Bring milk and cream to a simmer slowly on low heat.
2. Whisk the sugar and cornstarch together, add the egg yolks, combine well.
3. Slowly whisk the warm milk into the egg mixture, whisking constantly. Add vanilla. Return to the saucepan and stir gently until thickened. Serve hot, or cool to use as a layer in trifles, or fill tart pans.
4. Tip. If using it hot, it can be kept warm in a jug set in a pan of hot water with a bit of cling film on top to prevent a skin forming.

Source: food.com

Pineapple

1. Put all ingredients into a blender
2. Blend
3. Chill

Roast Turkey

1. Place all ingredients into a blender
2. Blend
3. The mixture should be thick, but still able to move when you tilt the container.

Layering

There are a couple ways to layer the drinks. The first way is the way I used for the tube. Tilt the container pour each of the liquids, starting with the bottom-most liquid, slowly into the container. The contents should slide down the side of the container and rest on top of each other.

For more open-faced containers, you can use the spoon method. Pour the first liquid into the bottom of the container. Then place a spoon upside-down and at an angle, so the tip of the spoon is resting just above the bottom layer, and pour the second layer onto the spoon slowly. Move the spoon to cover the whole first layer.

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Eat Me Sugar Cookies

After she foolishly drinks the luckily-not-poisoned, but enlarging drink, she goes on and eats some strange cookies that appear out of no where in the hopes that she will shrink back down.

(Credit: Disney)

These look like regular sugar cookies. We found a great recipe and whipped some up.

Eat Me Sugar Cookies

• Servings: 4 dozen
• Time: 30 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups	all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon	baking soda
1/2 teaspoon	baking powder
1 cup	softened butter
1 1/2 cups	white sugar
1	egg
1 teaspoon	vanilla extract
3 to 4	tablespoons buttermilk
	sprinkles or colored sugar for decorating

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in dry ingredients. Add enough of the buttermilk to moisten the dough and make it soft, not wet.
4. Roll rounded teaspoons of dough into balls and place on a ungreased cookie sheet. With a brush or fingers, moisten the top of each cookie with the remaining buttermilk and slightly flatten the top of each cookie. Sprinkle with raw sugar or colored sprinkles.
5. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until slightly golden. Let stand for 2 minutes before removing to cool on a rack.

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Bread and Butterflies

Ok, so this one is a little out of place. I’m combining two recipes. In the Walrus and the Carpenter section, the Carpenter makes some bread to go with the oysters,

(Credit: Disney)

and later on, we see some wonderful, punny creatures, bread and butterflies. So here is the recipe for the bread, and then how to make the bread and butterflies. We weren’t exactly successful in making the bread and butterflies, but it was fun to try.

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Bread and Butterflies

• Servings: 10
• Time: 2 hr
• Difficulty: Medium-Hard
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Ingredients:

4 cups	white flour plus extra for dusting
7 grams	fast-action dried yeast (one packet)
1 teaspoon	salt
1.5 cups	lukewarm water (give or take a little)
	a little oil for greasing

1. Make the dough by tipping the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl and making a well in the middle.
2. Pour in most of the water and use your fingers or a wooden spoon to mix the flour and water together until combined to a slightly wet, pillowy, workable dough – add a splash more water if necessary.
3. Tip the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for at least 10 mins until smooth and elastic.
4. This can also be done in a tabletop mixer with a dough hook.
5. Place the dough in a clean oiled bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size.
6. Heat oven to 430F/220C/fan 200C/gas 7.
7. Knock back the dough by tipping it back onto a floured surface and pushing the air out.
8. Mould the dough into a football ball shape that will fit a 900g loaf tin and place in the tin.
9. Cover with a clean tea towel and leave to prove for 30 mins.
10. Dust the top of the loaf with a little more flour and slash the top with a sharp knife if you want.
11. Bake the bread for 15 mins, then reduce the heat to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5 and continue to bake for 30 mins until the loaf sounds hollow when removed from the tin and tapped on the base.
12. Leave the bread on a wire rack to cool completely.
13. The loaf will stay fresh in an airtight container for 3 days or can be frozen for 1 month

Bread and Butterfly

1. Get a pipe cleaner and fold it in half.
2. Twist the ends together, but leave them seperated a bit to make antenna.
3. Take a piece of bread and roll it over the pipe cleaner.
4. Wet the edge of the bed so it sticks to itself in the roll.
5. Slice 2 more pieces of bread for wings.
6. Stick toothpicks in the bottom of the bread.
7. Stick the wings into the body.
8. Put honey at the top of the body and attach 2 googley eyes.
9. Spread butter on the wings.

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Little Oysters on a Half-shell

The Walrus and the Carpenter is a pretty messed up story. They eat little baby oysters. Now, people do that all the time, but these were cute anthropomorphic little oysters. The carpenter goes into what he’s putting into the sauce to eat with the oysters. It turns out he was probably describing a mignonette. So I found a good recipe and made it with the raw oysters. Both me and my wife aren’t fond of oysters, but we stomached them anyway.

Little Oysters on a Half-shell

• Servings: 4
• Time: 1 hr
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

Oysters

10-20	Oysters
	Crushed Ice or rock salt

Mignonette

1 tablespoon	coarsely ground white or black peppercorn (vary amount according to taste)
1/2 cup	white wine vinegar (I used red, but white would be more accurate)
2 tablespoons	finely chopped shallots or sweet onions
1 tsp	Ground mustard seed
	salt to taste

 

 

 

 

Oysters

1. Clean the oysters really well under running water with a course brush. Dirt is everywhere, so be sure to scrub, especially around the hinge
2. Insert a butter knife as far into the hinge as possible.
3. Rock the knife gently up and down as you push the knife further into the oyster
4. The oyster will finally open.
5. Detach it from the top and bottom of the shell, but leave it in the bottom.
6. Place in crushed ice or rock salt.

Mignonette

1. Combine all ingredients
2. Chill for at least an hour.
3. Serve with the Oysters

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A Mad Unbirthday Cake

This was another fun recipe. When Alice meets the Mad Hatter, he gives her an unbirthday cake.

(Credit: Disney)

We know what the outside looks like, but there was no way of knowing what the inside was because it explodes into a firework. So, it being wonderland, we had to do something interesting, so we made a multicolored cake!

A Mad Unbirthday Cake

• Servings: 12
• Time: 40 min
• Difficulty: Medium
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Ingredients:

1 box	white (vanilla) cake mix
	food coloring
2 cartons	pink frosting
	water **according to cake package
	egg white **according to cake package
	oil **according to cake package
1 teaspoon	vanilla extract
1 tablespoon	milk

1. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, add vanilla and milk.
2. Blend well.
3. Separate into 3 bowls.
4. Dye each bowlful a different color.
5. Pour batter into three 9″ cake pans that have been greased and floured.
6. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.
7. Allow to cool completely.
8. Cut into cakes with 3″ and 6″ rings starting in the center (this will make it look like a target).
9. Take the largest ring of one color, the 6″ ring of another color, and the 3″ center piece of the last color and put them together.
10. This creates a new bottom layer.
11. Frost.
12. Continue to do this for all 3 layers.
13. When you cut into the cake it will make a checkered pattern.
14. Use pink frosting and white icing. Put one “trick” candle on top.
15. Merry Unbirthday!

Edible White Chocolate Plate

Another fun recipe. We see the mad hatter dip his saucer into his tea and take a bite out of it.

(Credit: Disney)

(Credit: Disney)

Now, I wasn’t too keen on ingesting glass, so I decided to make an edible saucer. I went through a few different possibilities. I thought about making sugar glass, but I wasn’t sure how to make it white. Then I thought, why not make it out of white chocolate, that’s already white.

I found a tutorial on how to make a mold. And made one for a plate. Note: I didn’t use nearly enough silicone. I would say use between 20-30 oz, not 10 like I did.

Edible White Chocolate Plate

• Servings: 1
• Time: 2 hr
• Difficulty: Hard
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Ingredients:

1 Package	white chocolate chips
3 10oz tubes	Silicone
1/2 c	dish soap
64 oz	water

1. Follow the instructions here to make a mold of a plate
2. Melt the white chocolate chips either in the microwave, on the stove or double boiler.
3. Pour the melted white chocolate into the mold.
4. Chill for 1-2 hrs
5. Remove from mold and there you have your saucer..

 

 

 

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Mushroom to Help you Grow Big and Strong

Another thing Alice eats on the trust of others. The caterpillar just tells her to eat a mushroom when around 50% are inedible, 20% are toxic and 1% are deadly (Not sure if this is a credible source).

(Credit: Disney)

(Credit: Disney)

But lucky Alice, she didn’t die, just grew really big again.

Mushroom to Help you Grow Big and Strong

• Servings: 2
• Time: 10 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Get a mushroom. Steam it in a steamer. Eat it. (You can put some salt or something on it)

Will it Send you Down the Rabbit Hole?

Not the absolute tastiest movie, but one of the funnest cooks. I loved being able to try and figure out the different ways to make some of the stuff.

The Drink Me was interesting. It was fun being able to go through all the flavors. The cake and the cookies were probably the best part.

If you like oysters, then maybe you’ll like the oysters and mignonette, I dunno.

The edible plate was a good idea in concept, but for some reason, I couldn’t get the chocolate to melt right and I didn’t have enough silicone to make a full plate mold. If I had gotten it melted right, and had more silicone, I think it would have turned out better

Verdict:

Drink Me – 7/10 (Cherry) 8/10 (Custard) 8/10 (Pineapple) 4/10 (Roast Turkey)

Eat Me Sugar Cookies – 9/10

Bread and Butterfly – 7/10

Oysters – 5/10 (Raw Oysters), 3/10 (Boiled Oysters) 7/10 (Mignonette)

Unbirthday Cake – 9/10

Edible Plate – 6/10

Mushroom – 6/10 (Would be better with seasoning)

Saludos Amigos/Three Caballeros – Peruvian bread, Argentinian Asado (Steak and Sausage), Mate, Lemonade, Bahian Cookies (Quindins and Cocadas), and Cachaça

Quick links: Bread | Asado | Mate | Cachaça | Lemonade | Cocada | Quindins | Verdict

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Even being a huge Disney fanatic, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Saludos Amigos or Three Caballeros. Maybe I watched them when I was really small at my grandparent’s house, but I’m not sure. It seems pretty common that these two movies get overlooked, that’s why I’m combining them. Also, Saludos Amigos is almost a prequel to Three Caballeros. They are both part of a 6-movie package film series. So I’ll be combining the next couple movies too.

However, don’t let the obscurity of these two films throw you, the South American food in them was outstanding (minus the mate).

Peruvian Bread con el Pato Donald (Saludos Amigos)

As we watch Donald Duck start his South American journey, he sails in a straw boat across Lake Titicaca…until he gets thrown overboard and lands in the bread dough of an Peruvian lady in mid-knead.

(Credit: Disney)

I wasn’t quite sure what kinda of bread it was. I found this recipe for a bread from the Peruvian Andes, but it was a sweet bread and the picture didn’t look like any of the breads she had in the background. So I opted to go with regular white bread, but made in a Peruvian style, which means they use lard instead of butter or shortening.

Peruvian Bread con el Pato Donald

• Servings: 24
• Time: 2 hr 20 min
• Difficulty: Medium
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Ingredients:

2 packages	(0.25 ounce) yeast active, dry
3 tablespoons	white sugar
2 1/2 cups	warm water (110 degrees F)
3 tablespoons	lard softened
1 tablespoon	salt
6 1/2 cups	flour

1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water.
2. Stir in lard, salt and two cups of the flour.
3. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes.
5. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil.
6. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
7. Deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface.
8. Divide the dough into two equal pieces and form into loaves.
9. Place the loaves into two lightly greased 9×5 inch loaf pans.
10. Cover the loaves with a damp cloth and let rise until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes.
11. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
12. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for about 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.
    Credit: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/traditional-white-bread/

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Gaucho Goofy’s Asado (Saludos Amigos)

Oh man, this was delicious. One of the last short films featured one of my absolute favorite Disney characters, Goofy. The narrator picked cowboy Goofy up from Texas and dropped him in Argentina as El Gaucho Goofy! And what a rough-n-tumblin goucho he was.

Earlier in the film, they showed Argentinian bbq, or asado.

(Credit: Disney)

(Credit: Disney)

Doesn’t that look delicious?

Goucho Goofy shows the proper way to eat it. You take a mini-baguette, hold it so it’s sticking out of one side and hold the cut of meat in the same hand, but sticking out the other side.

(Credit: Disney)

We didn’t have a parrilla (which is a grate of sorts and is the “proper” way to cook it.) But we used a nice charcoal grill. Man, did it turn out great. It is best to get sausages, sirloin, flank, or fillet. For more info about truly grilling in an Argentinian fashion, check out this article I found.

Goucho Goofy Asado

• Servings: 2-6
• Time: 1hr
• Difficulty: Easy (if you know how to cook with charcoal)
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Ingredients:

Meat

6	Sausages
2 1/2 pounds	sirloin steak
	Kosher or course sea salt
2-4	Mini baguettes

Chimichurri (Sauce)

1 cup	Chopped parsley
4 cloves	Garlic minced
1 teaspoon	Salt
1/2 teaspoon	Pepper
1/2 teaspoon	Red chili pepper flakes
1 tablespoons	Dried oregano
Small	Onions minced
3/4 cup	Olive or vegetable oil
3 tablespoons	Red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons	Lemon juice

Meat

1. Sprinkle Kosher or Sea Salt on the steaks so it lightly coats it. Set aside.
2. Heat up charcoal and place on bottom of the grill (or parrilla).
3. Place the meat on the grill/parrilla and let it cook until the meat is medium-rare (around 140ºF)

 Chimichurri

1. Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender until finely chopped, but not pureed.
2. Spoon on top of steak and enjoy

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Mate (Saludos Amigos/Three Caballeros)

I had never tried mate before, but I had heard about it. Some people love it, others hate it. So I was excited to try. Gaucho Goofy seemed to enjoy it as he sipped it with his horse, relaxin’ all cool against a fence post.

(Credit: Disney)

Then in Three Caballeros, one of the shorts features a little boy and his flying donkey. They are shown enjoying mate as well.

(Credit: Disney)

So I thought it would at least be somewhat tasty right? I couldn’t have been more wrong. You do need a gourd cup and a special straw called a bombilla to “enjoy” this. I found one on amazon that works well.

Mate

• Servings: 1
• Time: 5 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

	Mate
	Gourd Cup
	Bombilla (Special Straw)
	Strong stomach

1. Fill the gourd 3/4 up with the mate.
2. Place one hand over the top of the cup and shake so the fine mate is brought to the top
3. Place the cup on an 60º incline so the mate rests on one side
4. Fill the cup halfway with hot, but not boiling water. Be careful not to get the top portion of the mate wet
5. Wait 1-2 minutes
6. Fill the rest of the cup up with hot (not boiling) water
7. Place the bombilla in and drink!

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José’s Virgin Cachaça Lime Cocktail (Saludos Amigos)

The last section of the film features José Carioca, a Brazillian parrot. He’s also featured in Three Caballeros and even a ride at Epcot. He shows Donald the beauties of Brazil, and then they sit down at a cafe and enjoy some Cachaça.

Cachaça is a Brazilian spirit made from sugar cane juice. So as we’re keeping this a family-friendly blog. We made a cachaça cocktail with actual sugar cane juice. I was able to find sugar cane juice at an Asian market next to my house, but I’m sure there are supermarkets around the carry it.

José's Virgin Cachaça Lime Cocktail

• Servings: 1
• Time: 3 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

4	Lime wedges
1 1/2 tablespoons	Sugar
1/3 cup	Sugar cane juice
2/3 cup	Vita-coco with mango and peach or with tangerine
	Ice

1. Fill tumbler with ice
2. Squeeze the 4 lime wedges onto ice then drop the wedges into cup.
3. Add sugar.
4. Fill the glass 1/3 up with sugar cane juice and the rest with Vita-coco
5. Stir gently.

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Out of the Arctic Lemonade (Three Caballeros)

Now onto the second movie. Three Caballeros. The first short in this film features a penguin that escapes his cold homeland to venture to warmer climates. He relaxes and drinks a lemony drink on a hammock.

We are not privy to see inside the glass. But we do see a lemon slice on the side of the glass when a tortoise brings him another drink.

Now, I could have just assumed it was water with a lemon slice in it, but what’s the fun in that? Lets make lemonade. And who would make lemonade better than Paula Dean?

Out of the Arctic Lemonade

• Servings: 6
• Time: 10 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

2 cups	sugar
1 cup	hot water
2 cups	fresh lemon juice
1 gallon	cold water
1	lemon sliced
1	sprig mint for garnish

1. In a 1 gallon container, place sugar and hot water
2. Stir until sugar dissolves.
3. Add lemon juice and cold water to render 1 gallon.
4. Stir until well mixed.
5. Pour lemonade over glasses of ice, squeeze slice of lemon on top of each, and garnish with a sprig of mint.Credit: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/lemonade-recipe.html?oc=linkback

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Bahian treats That’ll Make you Dance (Three Caballeros)

Onto Baia! I really want to visit Brazil and Baia would be a really cool place to go. The Three Caballeros are just chilling, when a Brazillian “cookie lady” comes and teases them with cookies (how rude).

Then, Donald goes crazy. He is probably one of the most lustful characters in the Disney universe. He goes after almost every female he comes across…no matter the species.

Anyway, they start singing a song in Portuguese. A crowd gathers and they all join in. Donald gets jealous when the “orange man” comes and tries to steal the “cookie lady” away from him.

Throughout the song in that scene I was trying to figure out what they were saying, because I happen to speak Portuguese. I still couldn’t understand what they were saying in the chorus, though. I searched for the lyrics and turns out that they were saying “Quindins de Yaya.” I didn’t know what Quindins were.

So I looked them up. Turns out that they are a Brazilian treat and of course I had to make them. However, her plate of cookies was diverse, so I looked up other Brazilian treats to make, too. That’s when I found Cocadas, which are basically coconut bars.

Quindins de Yaya

• Servings: 6
• Time: 10 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

5	whole eggs
15	egg yolk
2 cups	sugar
1 cup	coconut grated
1/4 cup	melted butter
2 teaspoons	vanilla extract
2 tablespoons	corn syrup
	sugar for dusting the pans

1. In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the 15 yolks.
2. Sift the eggs through a wire strainer
3. Add the other ingredients, mix well.
4. Place dough in greased pans and sprinkle with sugar (use spring-form pan for best results). We used a cupcake tin
5. Sprinkle more sugar on top for crispy top.
6. Bake in water bath in the oven at 180 ° C for 35 minutes (A water bath consists of putting the baking pan in a larger pan that is filled with hot water)
7. Let cool and unmold.
8. Serve chilled.

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Cocadas

• Servings: 6
• Time: 10 min
• Difficulty: Easy
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Ingredients:

400 grams	fresh grated coconut thick
2 1/2 cups	sugar
1 1/2 cups	water
1/4 cup	sweetened condensed milk
	oil enough to grease pan

1. Butter a large baking sheet with oil
2. Set aside
3. Place the water the sugar in a saucepan over high heat
4. Let the syrup cook until it falls in strings
5. Pour the coconut into the pan with the sauce and stir
6. Add the condensed milk and continue stirring until it begins to come away from the pan base
7. Remove the coconut candy from heat and place the spoonfuls on greased baking sheet
8. Wait until they harden slightly and remove the coconut sweets from the pan with a spatula

Will it Make you Dance the Samba?

The bread was delicious. It had a hard crispy crust and a soft inside. It went really well with strawberry jam.

The asado has probably been my favorite Disney food so far. It was sooooooo good. I wish I made more so I could have just gotten super fat eating it. Gaucho Goofy knows how to eat. The steak was tender and well seasoned, the sausages were crisp on the outside, and the chimichurri sauce complimented everything superbly. I was really surprised about how well that sauce went with everything.

And after that tasty meal, I had to drink mate. Oh man, that was HORRIBLE. I think I even liked the clover blossoms from Bambi better. I don’t know how people drink that stuff.

While I didn’t try true cachaça, this sugar cane mocktail was amazing. It was tart but sweet. The sugar cane juice wasn’t very good alone, but together, it turned out really well.

I could always go for a nice cool glass of lemonade. The mint really added to the taste. My wife thought it needed more sugar, but I thought it was perfect.

The cocadas were really sugary. I don’t know if I didn’t refine the sugar enough or something. You could taste the sugar grits. Despite that, they were really good. Even my wife, who doesn’t like coconut, liked them

Now my favorite treat, the quindins. I didn’t know what to expect. Even though our batch came out really gooey, it was super delicious. I recommend maybe cooking it longer or something. I highly recommend these treats.

Verdict:

Peruvian Bread con el Pato Donald – 7.5/10

Gaucho Goofy’s Asado – 11/10

Mate – 1/10

José’s Cachaça Lime Cocktail – 8.5/10

Out of the Arctic Lemonade – 8/10

Cocadas – 7.5/10

Quindins de Yaya – 8.5/10 (would have been a 10/10 if they weren’t so gooey)