Hey, You Lions Can't Do That! This is Disney! A Frozen Harambe Trip Report! NEW 8/27!

[Nicole786]

Subscribing! That swordfish looked amazing!

 

[AAshleySEG]

Love all of your photos! And all of that food looks DELICIOUS. I know where I'm going if I'm ever in Charleston. YAY Chris for awesome recs!

Thank you! I have so much fun taking photos, if I was better at it, I might even call it a hobby! FIG was definitely delish! So definitely keep it in mind if you are ever down this way!

 

[AAshleySEG]

joining in

Yay, you are here!! So good to have you! Thanks for joining in!

 

[AAshleySEG]

wow - that meal looks amazing! So glad you enjoyed it

Ravines is one of our favorite wineries to visit - so sorry you didn't like their wine better. We like their Reisling but some of their others are definitely better. Glad to see some NY wine make the menu though

We really did enjoy it, we are contemplating going back there again soon!

I checked out the website for the Ravines Winery and it looks beautiful! If we are ever up that way, we definitely want to stop by there! I think that particular Riesling was a little too dry for both of us, I tend to like my Rieslings on the other spectrum, but I would love to check out some of their other options!

 

[AAshleySEG]

Subscribing! That swordfish looked amazing!

Welcome Welcome!! Thanks for joining in and reading along! And...OMG, that swordfish was fantastic! I am still dreaming about it! Seeing that photo again made it even worse!

 

[DaeHyFoog]

Wow. That swordfish looks wonderful. Next time we get back to Charleston, we'll have to look up Fig.

I can't wait to hear about Frozen Summer Fun!

 

[MarbleBob]

Yahoo! Your TR is off to an awesome start. I LOVE Charleston too. Haven't been in a while, but we used to visit all the time as my grandparents used to live there (on James Island). I've visited Ft. Sumter and the Yorktown several times as a kid, and it was fun following along with your photos! I love that you and Jeremy are foodies and share lots of photos. We don't get out and eat as much as we'd like, so it's fun to follow along on your TR's!!!!

Stephanie (DaeHyFoog) told me that you mentioned the KettlePizza, so I HAD to come over and chime in sooner rather than later! (I always have trouble typing her screen name. It's GoofyHead backwards, so if I go slowly I can figure it out. )

I've been wanting to make true Neapolitan style pizza (like they make at Via Napoli) for a while now, but you need temperatures close to 1,000 degrees... which is impossible in a home oven. Apparently with the KettlePizza insert (and if you follow Kenji Lopez's approach on Serious Eats, the KettlePizza can get close to it.) In order to save money, I purchased the KettlePizza components separately... hoping that I didn't actually need the Baking Steel accessory. It turns out that I did. Without it, the crust was cooking MUCH faster than the cheese/topping. (The Baking Steel keeps the heat near the top of the pizza and also radiates heat downwards.) The pizza that I made last weekend, wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I wanted either. So I ordered the baking steel and it arrived yesterday. I have a new batch of dough fermenting in the refrigerator and I plan to give it another go tomorrow. Fingers crossed, there is an art/learning curve to this and I hope tomorrow goes better! I'll let you know how it goes!

 

[MarbleBob]

Oh, and here's what I'm aiming for.... Philia and her family (from SweetPhi.com blog) seem to have their KettlePizza dialed in pretty well!

Here's the bog post:

http://www.sweetphi.com/three-pizza-recipes-kettle-pizza-roundup/

 

[FancyNancy]

What an awesome menu. Everything on there looked delicious. It must have been so hard to choose! Can't wait to read about Frozen Summer Fun. We will be there in a couple of weeks so I'm very curious!

 

[MidnightParade]

Ooooooh!! What a dinner! You make it all sound so delicious and wonderful! Makes me wish I ate/liked seafood!!

Hmmmmm...I wonder if this Berry delightful trend for desserts will continue!!!

Boo to needing to get re-keyed! Especially when your tired and needing to get to bed!

 

[AAshleySEG]

Wow. That swordfish looks wonderful. Next time we get back to Charleston, we'll have to look up Fig.

I can't wait to hear about Frozen Summer Fun!

I loved swordfish before, but that pumpkin swordfish was definitely a step up! Plus how can you go wrong with a lemony butter caper type sauce on anything, I may could have in fact put that sauce on my shoe and eaten it

If only you guys lived closer to Charleston! But totally, when you make it back there, it is definitely a great restaurant!

Frozen Summer Fun! As you will see in my future posts, we definitely took advantage of all it had to offer! I still have my Olaf with me, and sometimes I want to carry him around and just take random photos of him with us

 

[AAshleySEG]

Yahoo! Your TR is off to an awesome start. I LOVE Charleston too. Haven't been in a while, but we used to visit all the time as my grandparents used to live there (on James Island). I've visited Ft. Sumter and the Yorktown several times as a kid, and it was fun following along with your photos! I love that you and Jeremy are foodies and share lots of photos. We don't get out and eat as much as we'd like, so it's fun to follow along on your TR's!!!!

Stephanie (DaeHyFoog) told me that you mentioned the KettlePizza, so I HAD to come over and chime in sooner rather than later! (I always have trouble typing her screen name. It's GoofyHead backwards, so if I go slowly I can figure it out. )

I've been wanting to make true Neapolitan style pizza (like they make at Via Napoli) for a while now, but you need temperatures close to 1,000 degrees... which is impossible in a home oven. Apparently with the KettlePizza insert (and if you follow Kenji Lopez's approach on Serious Eats, the KettlePizza can get close to it.) In order to save money, I purchased the KettlePizza components separately... hoping that I didn't actually need the Baking Steel accessory. It turns out that I did. Without it, the crust was cooking MUCH faster than the cheese/topping. (The Baking Steel keeps the heat near the top of the pizza and also radiates heat downwards.) The pizza that I made last weekend, wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I wanted either. So I ordered the baking steel and it arrived yesterday. I have a new batch of dough fermenting in the refrigerator and I plan to give it another go tomorrow. Fingers crossed, there is an art/learning curve to this and I hope tomorrow goes better! I'll let you know how it goes!

Yes, that is 100% one thing you will learn about us if you read my TRs...we LOVE food! If I remember right you guys yelped local restaurants on your trip too! I just did a yelp search for our next trip and man I am excited to try some of the places that I saw on there! That little pizza place we stopped at in Pawley's Island, I found via Yelp!

As far as the pizza goes, now that I know someone that has one, I really feel like taking the leap and getting one for us too! I have tried a few pizza dough recipes out in the past too but have not found exactly what I wanted. However, I talked about that bread baking book that I have from the French Culinary Institute and it has what looks like a great pizza dough recipe in there, I mean it will take me about 8-10 days to make it, but I am going to try it out and see how it goes!

That pizza in the blog photo looks amazing!! Man, I need to get started right away. I have a Breville Smart Oven I use a lot, I may try and see how that does too with a pizza before we go all in with the kettle pizza, I guess after that my only option would be to build or get one of those HUGE brick pizza ovens or kits! Now that would be a giant investment for some pizza. But it would be cheaper than driving to Via Napoli to get it all the time!

I can't wait to hear how your pizza turns out! Patiently waiting!

 

[AAshleySEG]

What an awesome menu. Everything on there looked delicious. It must have been so hard to choose! Can't wait to read about Frozen Summer Fun. We will be there in a couple of weeks so I'm very curious!

It was so hard to choose, I am so indecisive anyway, so when you put that many wonderful looking options in front of me, it really makes it difficult, thats why I have to just go with server suggestions, it saves me hours of contemplation

Yay! Frozen Summer Fun, was really a blast! There are so many little "cool" things to do there, plus it is fun to take Olaf on adventures as we learned! So fun, that you will be going so soon!! I bet you guys will have a great time!

 

[AAshleySEG]

Ooooooh!! What a dinner! You make it all sound so delicious and wonderful! Makes me wish I ate/liked seafood!!

Hmmmmm...I wonder if this Berry delightful trend for desserts will continue!!!

Boo to needing to get re-keyed! Especially when your tired and needing to get to bed!

I know, seafood is one of our favorites, we tend to eat it a lot! I wish you liked it too!

Yeah, I love me some fruity desserts! It is strange though, Jeremy usually likes chocolaty ones so, it is a little interesting that we do seem to be getting these this time, I only say that because I know what the next dessert is

Yeah, I was so tired when we got up to the room the first time, and then back and forth, I didn't mention it before but there were also people being really loud in the rooms around us too. It was just interesting, that is the first time we have had any issues at all with that particular hotel, we have stayed there 2 times before and everything was perfect!

 

[JessicaKnits]

I'm joining in! I recently moved to Charlotte and Ft. Sumter looks awesome! I might have to check it out!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

We really did enjoy it, we are contemplating going back there again soon!

I checked out the website for the Ravines Winery and it looks beautiful! If we are ever up that way, we definitely want to stop by there! I think that particular Riesling was a little too dry for both of us, I tend to like my Rieslings on the other spectrum, but I would love to check out some of their other options!

ah yeah, we tend to enjoy ours dryer. That is one good thing about the Finger Lake region - they have Rieslings (and Gewurztraminers) along along the spectrum from super sweet to bone dry

 

[AAshleySEG]

Last Trip Report I did a budget post so we could see how we did in relation to how much I budgeted for our trip. We got a lot of positive feedback on it, so I am going to do the same thing this time, only a tad differently. Instead of doing a budget post at the end of each post, I am going to do one for an entire day once I am finished with it. That way, with it being in a separate post, if someone wants to read it they can, and if not they can just skip over it!

This first post is going to be for Wednesday July 23! Our first day on vacation! So let the budget posting commence!

Budgeted Amounts
Gas Fill-Up #1 - $50.00
Lunch - $30.00
Overall Souvenir Budget - $150.00
Dinner - $150.00

Actual Spent
Gas Fill-Up #1 - $50.04
Lunch - $35.00
Souvenirs from Fort Sumter - $27.00
Dinner - $180.00

Budget Status
$35.04 Over Budget
(123.00) Remaining In The Souvenir Budget!​

 

[AAshleySEG]

I'm joining in! I recently moved to Charlotte and Ft. Sumter looks awesome! I might have to check it out!

Awesome! Glad to have you along! So you just moved to the Charlotte area! Jeremy and I lived there for our entire lives up until last year when we moved down to Southport! I know the drive from there to Disney like the back of my hand, well probably better than the back of my hand!

Thanks again for joining in!!

 

[AAshleySEG]

ah yeah, we tend to enjoy ours dryer. That is one good thing about the Finger Lake region - they have Rieslings (and Gewurztraminers) along along the spectrum from super sweet to bone dry

That's definitely good to know! We may have to look into some different options from around there! We love ourselves a good glass of wine!

 

[MarbleBob]

Yes, that is 100% one thing you will learn about us if you read my TRs...we LOVE food! If I remember right you guys yelped local restaurants on your trip too! I just did a yelp search for our next trip and man I am excited to try some of the places that I saw on there! That little pizza place we stopped at in Pawley's Island, I found via Yelp!

As far as the pizza goes, now that I know someone that has one, I really feel like taking the leap and getting one for us too! I have tried a few pizza dough recipes out in the past too but have not found exactly what I wanted. However, I talked about that bread baking book that I have from the French Culinary Institute and it has what looks like a great pizza dough recipe in there, I mean it will take me about 8-10 days to make it, but I am going to try it out and see how it goes!

That pizza in the blog photo looks amazing!! Man, I need to get started right away. I have a Breville Smart Oven I use a lot, I may try and see how that does too with a pizza before we go all in with the kettle pizza, I guess after that my only option would be to build or get one of those HUGE brick pizza ovens or kits! Now that would be a giant investment for some pizza. But it would be cheaper than driving to Via Napoli to get it all the time!

I can't wait to hear how your pizza turns out! Patiently waiting!

Yeah, we are huge fans of Yelp (and Trip Advisor). Yelp on the phone is awesome for road trips, to be able to know what is at each exit before you decide which exit to pull off of for lunch/dinner. And like you did with the pizza joint, we always look for places with lots of reviews and high ratings. It usually works well for us


Cool. I hope you decided to go forward with your pizza making adventure. In the meantime, here's something else worth sharing…. I've been a big fan of Peter Reinhart (for both bread baking and pizza making) through the years. www.Pizzaquest.com I've found that in my home oven with a pizza stone, that his Neo Neapolitan recipe (using King Arthur bread flour) is pretty darn amazing. (About as good as you can get in a 500 to 550 degree home oven.) I discovered him years before this free video class on Craftsy (that I'm about to share) came out… but I've found the class to be SUPER HELPFUL. If you are interested, give it a try…

http://www.craftsy.com/class/perfect-pizza-at-home/186



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