Disney's CA F&W Fest - Final wrap up for 2010 see you next year!

[kaoden39]

Very cool. I wish I could go this year. Argh. I am going next year, I just need to figure out when the chefs I want to see are going to be there.

 

[rentayenta]

Found ya. Now I have some catching up to do.

 

[franandaj]

So I just found out yesterday that I’m going to a Wine Maker Dinner at Club 33 this Sunday evening and John Lasseter will be there because it’s his winery!

The same friend who got me in for lunch at the Club the day after my Birthday was able to get me into this dinner! Evidently Club 33 has these “Member events” and the member can bring a certain number of guests. Well this event has a party maximum size of four, me and DP get to attend with our friends! When I found out about the possibility of going to the dinner I called DVC MS and waitlisted for that Sunday night, and amazingly enough the waitlist came through. Since we were already staying Friday and Saturday nights, adding a Sunday for an evening this special just seemed like a no brainer! However I didn't want to post anything about it until I was sure I was going, didn't want to jinx anything!

According to the Food & Wine schedule, John Lasseter’s Winery is presenting tastings at the Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday and his Wine Maker is doing bottle signings, so I guess after all that he gets to come to Club 33 and have dinner.

What a magical way to close out the weekend!

 

[rentayenta]

So I just found out yesterday that I’m going to a Wine Maker Dinner at Club 33 this Sunday evening and John Lasseter will be there because it’s his winery!

The same friend who got me in for lunch at the Club the day after my Birthday was able to get me into this dinner! Evidently Club 33 has these “Member events” and the member can bring a certain number of guests. Well this event has a party maximum size of four, me and DP get to attend with our friends! When I found out about the possibility of going to the dinner I called DVC MS and waitlisted for that Sunday night, and amazingly enough the waitlist came through. Since we were already staying Friday and Saturday nights, adding a Sunday for an evening this special just seemed like a no brainer! However I didn't want to post anything about it until I was sure I was going, didn't want to jinx anything!

According to the Food & Wine schedule, John Lasseter’s Winery is presenting tastings at the Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday and his Wine Maker is doing bottle signings, so I guess after all that he gets to come to Club 33 and have dinner.

What a magical way to close out the weekend!

Amazing! Waaahooooo!!!!

 

[onelilspark]

So I just found out yesterday that I’m going to a Wine Maker Dinner at Club 33 this Sunday evening and John Lasseter will be there because it’s his winery!

The same friend who got me in for lunch at the Club the day after my Birthday was able to get me into this dinner! Evidently Club 33 has these “Member events” and the member can bring a certain number of guests. Well this event has a party maximum size of four, me and DP get to attend with our friends! When I found out about the possibility of going to the dinner I called DVC MS and waitlisted for that Sunday night, and amazingly enough the waitlist came through. Since we were already staying Friday and Saturday nights, adding a Sunday for an evening this special just seemed like a no brainer! However I didn't want to post anything about it until I was sure I was going, didn't want to jinx anything!

According to the Food & Wine schedule, John Lasseter’s Winery is presenting tastings at the Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday and his Wine Maker is doing bottle signings, so I guess after all that he gets to come to Club 33 and have dinner.

What a magical way to close out the weekend!

How exciting!

Also: is it just me or is Guy Fieri really tan?!

 

[kaoden39]

How exciting!

Also: is it just me or is Guy Fieri really tan?!

I love Guy but, a person that is as busy as he is has to be using fake tan. How else would he have a tan? When does he find time to spend in the sun?

 

[franandaj]

I love Guy but, a person that is as busy as he is has to be using fake tan. How else would he have a tan? When does he find time to spend in the sun?

It does look like a fake tan, sort of orangeish...

 

[kaoden39]

It does look like a fake tan, sort of orangeish...

Too funny that was my thought.

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

I always thought his tan was from all the time spent in his convertable driving the country I think he has white lines on his face from his sunglasses!

You are so lucky to be going to Club 33, I want to go one of these days!

 

[kaoden39]

I always thought his tan was from all the time spent in his convertable driving the country I think he has white lines on his face from his sunglasses!

You are so lucky to be going to Club 33, I want to go one of these days!

Yeah, yeah that's it sun in the convertible.

 

[sleekmr2]

OMG!! I'm so hungry now. Love the pics.

 

[Angel16]

So I just found out yesterday that I’m going to a Wine Maker Dinner at Club 33 this Sunday evening and John Lasseter will be there because it’s his winery!

The same friend who got me in for lunch at the Club the day after my Birthday was able to get me into this dinner! Evidently Club 33 has these “Member events” and the member can bring a certain number of guests. Well this event has a party maximum size of four, me and DP get to attend with our friends! When I found out about the possibility of going to the dinner I called DVC MS and waitlisted for that Sunday night, and amazingly enough the waitlist came through. Since we were already staying Friday and Saturday nights, adding a Sunday for an evening this special just seemed like a no brainer! However I didn't want to post anything about it until I was sure I was going, didn't want to jinx anything!

According to the Food & Wine schedule, LassJohneter’s Winery is presenting tastings at the Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday and his Wine Maker is doing bottle signings, so I guess after all that he gets to come to Club 33 and have dinner.

What a magical way to close out the weekend!

Alison, That is super! I really want to hear all about it. Of course your going to post your experience.

We will be arriving at DL Sunday around noon. We are staying at the GC for four nights. Guess we will have to check our CA and look for John Lasseters Winery. Thanks for all the information.



Angel16

 

[franandaj]

So nothing went as planned today, we wanted to see the Guy Fieri Demo, but just didn't make it in time. And just to let you all know, don't think I eat like this all the time! But I do choose wisely, to quote Indiana Jones (the 3rd movie). Before we checked into the VGC we stopped at In-N-Out so we got our fast food burger fix before our gourmet plunge, plus all week I cooked "packaged food" like Wanchai Ferry Orange Chicken and Zatarains Jambalaya. Don't think I didn't mix it up with extra veggies and stuff, but we're down home people normally, we just live it up on vacation or during F&W!

We did have a very nice dinner at Steakhouse 55 and I will quick post some pics because I need to go to bed so that I can get up for the Napa Rose Cooking School tomorrow. If I can muster up the gusto I'll even get up for magic mornings at the MK and ride SM, but that's pretty doubtful, I'm lucky to get up for the Cooking School as it is!

Ok so here's the bread, boy this was pretty darned yummy!

The Menu

We split everything on the meal, our first course was the rock shrimp, these were yummy tasty morsels delicately fried, but not at all tough, we scarfed them down.

Here's the glass of Chalone Chardonnay I had with the first two courses

The spinach and applewood bacon salad

The 7 onion soup, first the poured in parmesan crisps and chives,

Then the soup broth with the onions. I'll tell you this was AMAZING! The broth itself was to DIE for, and the onions were so sweet, it was just too good!

This was my half of the Rib Eye

The other half

Our Sides:

My plate, although this was a little bit overcooked, it was still quite good.

We got the first one on the list

Along with a glass of late harvest riesling

Next up the Cooking School at the Food & Wine Festival, it officially begins!

 

[onelilspark]

I like my steaks RED in the middle, it made me smile that you said yours were a little over done

I'm excited to read all about your F&W experience! Have a great time at the Cooking School tomorrow!!!

 

[toocherie]

Alison!

I can't believe I was at the Keegan Gerhard Sweet Sunday last year and didn't know you! Aaarrrrggghhhhhh!

However, I am going to Taste this year with some friends. I will also be a scooter girl--how/where did you get your tray? How did you attach it to the scooter?

I was also wistful because my friends Dawn and Bob were at the Napa Rose cooking school last year in 2009 and enjoyed that menu very much. Unfortunately Dawn got the swine flu and passed away in November so it brought back memories because I saw a lot of them that weekend and reminded me that she would probably have been out here again.

Anyway--we will have to meet up at Taste!

 

[rentayenta]

Great pics!!!! Love that you said your ribeye was a little overdone. We like ours rare too! Food looks delicious. Our first stop when we hit So Cal will be In n Out.

 

[franandaj]

Alison!

I can't believe I was at the Keegan Gerhard Sweet Sunday last year and didn't know you! Aaarrrrggghhhhhh!

However, I am going to Taste this year with some friends. I will also be a scooter girl--how/where did you get your tray? How did you attach it to the scooter?

I was also wistful because my friends Dawn and Bob were at the Napa Rose cooking school last year in 2009 and enjoyed that menu very much. Unfortunately Dawn got the swine flu and passed away in November so it brought back memories because I saw a lot of them that weekend and reminded me that she would probably have been out here again.

Anyway--we will have to meet up at Taste!

That's too funny that you were there too! We sat right up front on the buffet side of the table facing the demo. It was right after that event that I made my DP go tour the DVC models and buy points here so that I could stay the first and last weekends of F&W!

We made the tray tables ourselves. We just bought a piece of wood at Home Depot, cut it to about 20x18 inches. We bought floor moulding and cut that to make the "lips" of the tray table so our goodies would not slide off the side. The bases are plant hangers that one would mount on the wall and insert a pot into. We attached those with cable tie downs. Then we just used a lot of zip ties to hold them on the scooter. Once I get home, I'll post a picture of the underside for you to see. They worked great the only difficulty is U turns where the angle slants a little bit. Otherwise we had our tables with us at all times and didn't need to wait in line four hours before the event to get a table!

I read about Dawn and Bob, that was very sad. She was probably a really neat lady. We'll be easy to spot at Taste! Don't worry if you're staying, you can have your room at the VGC, we're in a 1 BR that night, we have an accessible unit, so we'll probably be on the ground floor. That's OK, I've had this view (and will for the next two nights) so someone else can enjoy it.

Looking forward to meeting you! In the meantime, I'm going to continue to enjoy the festival! More pics coming!

 

[kaoden39]

I like my steak bloody too. I hope cooking class is fun.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Alison....I'm hungry! Off to lunch for this Aussie! Your extravaganza looks scrumptious

What camera are you using for the food porn shots and what settings are you using? I'm hoping to take a lot of food shots myself...

 

[franandaj]

I like my steaks RED in the middle, it made me smile that you said yours were a little over done

I'm excited to read all about your F&W experience! Have a great time at the Cooking School tomorrow!!!

Great pics!!!! Love that you said your ribeye was a little overdone. We like ours rare too! Food looks delicious. Our first stop when we hit So Cal will be In n Out.

I like my steak bloody too. I hope cooking class is fun.

Yeah for all of us who like our meat still kicking!

Alison....I'm hungry! Off to lunch for this Aussie! Your extravaganza looks scrumptious

What camera are you using for the food porn shots and what settings are you using? I'm hoping to take a lot of food shots myself...

For these pics, I'm just using a Canon Power Shot SD890 IS. It's small and I keep it in my purse for easy use. It's great for food shots, but not so hot for things like the testing of WoC that I was trying to take pictures of last night!