Meal Ideas for DVC Kitchen?

[clombardi]

In the past, we have only used our DVC kitchen to prepare breakfast, make a sandwich for lunch, or heat up leftovers. This year, I want to cook 4 dinners in the villa and make ADRs for 2 nights.

I am wondering if any of you will share ideas for meals that you have cooked in your DVC kitchen. I hate to cook the same old stuff that the family gets at home!

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Junebugwv]

Our favorite is Campfire Chicken:

Place chicken pieces (breasts or whatever you prefer) in baking dish.

Sprinkle with part of a packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing (dry)

On top of chicken, place baby carrots, frozen green beans and chopped frozen onions (or slices of fresh onions). Sprinkle with the remainder of the Italian Dressing packet.

Cover tightly, bake 1 1/2 hours, 350 degrees.

Cut-up red potatoes may be added to the veggies, if desired.

 

[Longhairbear]

We cooked all our meals the last visit. I ordered groceries online from Garden Grocer. We saved a ton of money, but the meals were my usual fare. Next trip I plan to take copies of my favorite Disney recipes from the various Disney Resort cookbooks.
Walt's Chili, Prime Time Dine In meatloaf, etc. As I also have the Food & Wine cookbook, I'll pick a few items from that as well. That way I can have a Disney dinner, or lunch. I might even make Mickey pancakes for breakfast.

 

[clombardi]

Great ideas. Thanks!

 

[jodifla]

Normally we do steaks on the grill, baked potatoes and a salad
Also a pasta and sauce with a salad.


I've also started getting a big veggie tray with ranch sauce at the store. That way, we have a healthy appetizer, and I have a selection of fresh veggies to use for meals that week.

 

[edk35]

Our favorite is Campfire Chicken:

Place chicken pieces (breasts or whatever you prefer) in baking dish.

Sprinkle with part of a packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing (dry)

On top of chicken, place baby carrots, frozen green beans and chopped frozen onions (or slices of fresh onions). Sprinkle with the remainder of the Italian Dressing packet.

Cover tightly, bake 1 1/2 hours, 350 degrees.

Cut-up red potatoes may be added to the veggies, if desired.

YUMMY. I want to try this at home.

 

[nappingbeauty]

 

[rsimon]

We like to cook and here are a few ideas:

Soppy joes, made from scratch or with a mix is something easy..
Sauted Salmon with dill cream sauce over pasta..
London broil with baked potato and vegies..
Fajitas (chicken or beef).. pretty easy..
Meatballs and pasta..

Maybe this will give you something to think about.. I know with what is in the kitchen at DVC resorts, these could all be made..

 

[Disney_Mama]

If you like sea food.... I buy ready cooked frozen shrimp and ready made Alfredo sauce. Cook some pasta and that's it. You could add whatever you wanted to the sauce... chicken, mushrooms, etc...

 

[Disney_Mama]

Just thought of another easy one.

layer boneless skinless chicken breast bottom of casserole dish.
sprinkle with grated mozzarella cheese
depending on how many people 1-2 boxes of chicken stuffing mix.
Dump stuffing mix in a bowl and add water so stuffing mix is moist. Then pour moist stuffing mix on top. Seal tightly with foil and bake for a good hour on 375.

My kids hate the stuffing but the chicken underneath comes out so moist and flavorful.

 

[Tink&PirateMama]

We cooked a lot of meals in our villa- always breakfast (and i love freshly grated hashbrowns, so we did that a lot!)... lunches tended to be out at the parks more and simple... but for dinners... let's see. We did a few stir frys and pasta dishes, it was pretty much the same thing we make at home. Actually probably a bit simpler, because we did eat out more often than we do at home, and I usually want simpler things to balance out all the heavy out to eat stuff. We're vegetarian and have food allergies in the family, which makes eating out more challenging (although I will add that disney is great if you call ahead with these issues and I love that! It's just not fun to be calling for most of your meals!)... Anyway, there is a whole foods not too far from ssr, so we just went over there and picked up our usual groceries and cooked as usual. Actually, wf has soycheese pizzas, which my kids love to get, and so we had pizza too on our trip from there That was how we got hooked on buying DVC- we just LOVED the convenience of cooking our favorite things and being at 'home' while on vacation Our kids were really happy to be able to have some dairy free ice cream in our freezer too! For families with food allergies, having a kitchen is so very helpful! We are SO excited for the closing on our SSR contract and to plan our next trip back

 

[edk35]

Super easy one here that I make every couple of weeks at home


Lay boneless chicken breasts (4 breasts) in a 9x13 baking pan (spray first)
Lay a slice of muenster cheese over chicken breast
Spoon a can of cream of mushroom soup evenly over the cheese
Sprinkly pepperidge farms stuffing (in the blue bag) over the soup ( I don't measure it out...just eye ball it. My family likes a good bit)
Melt some butter and drizzle over stuffing. Cover will foil and bake for 45 min. at about 350. The last 5 min. take off the foil and let it brown some without the foil. I also like to use the boneless chicken tenders for this too.

You can also use swiss cheese but the muenster makes it very creamy.

 

[nikkistevej]

We always make tacos, pancakes and bacon or sausage.

 

[wrighter]

We eat most of our dinners in the room - thank God I married a man who loves to cook and hardly ever gets to do it at home! We make a lot of your standard stuff: tacos, pasta, etc. Something to consider if you don't eat it a lot but want to "switch it up," considering making your pasta with pesto instead of red or cream sauce. Garden Grocer has a small container of it on their list. If we don't use it all on the pasta, on Day Three we'll take leftover tortillas (from the tacos,) grill up some chicken and make chicken pesto wraps. Melt some cheese on there and you're good to go.

One thing we made this year that we are definitely going to make again: Jambalaya. We brought Zataran's boxed version of it, then bought onions and sausage from Garden Grocer. (You could also do shrimp.) It was cheap, easy, and tasted delish! Made some Texas Toast with it. Certainly not healthy, but you could do worse.

 

[OKWMom]

On our last trip I cooked almost every dinner. Most lunches were in the parks and breakfast was a pastry, cereal, fruit etc.

Here's what I fixed:
Baked spaghetti (actually, I made this at home, froze it and baked it at OKW)

Shepard's pie - I prepared the ground beef mixture at home and froze it in a vacuum seal bag for transport in my cooler. I bought the simply potatoes homestyle mashed for the top and added shredded cheese

Alfredo pasta bake
1 jar Bertoli alfredo sauce
12 oz egg noodles, cooked
10 oz frozen broccoli, thawed and drained
1 lb italian sausage
1 jar roasted red peppers, chopped
8 oz shredded cheese
Brown sausage and drain, mix with other ingredients. Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly.

I can't remember everything else, but I think I also made smothered chicken and a wild rice casserole. I planned the meals out in advance so I could get recipes that used similar ingredients to minimize waste.

 

[MomsOf2boys]

We make all the regular stuff like pasta, tacos, turkey burgers etc. But we have two favorites that are always requested.

One is Tater Tot Casserole. (Like a quick version of shepherd pie)

We cook 1 pound of ground turkey or beef with onions and drain. You put this in the bottom of a 9x13ish pan and then you put a can of cream of whatever, mushroom, celery, chicken etc on it and a can of cream corn and a can of mixed veggies. You can put a sprinkle of cheese across but we skip it. Then you put a bag of tater tots on top and put in 325 oven until the tater tots are cooked. YUMMO!

The other one is a sizzling salad. We make a cold salad with all your cold veggie favorites then you saute' grilled chicken or steak and mushrooms and onions and peppers etc and put over the salad. Sprinkle with feta or blue cheese and YUMMO!

 

[DisDaydreamer]

In the past, we have only used our DVC kitchen to prepare breakfast, make a sandwich for lunch, or heat up leftovers. This year, I want to cook 4 dinners in the villa and make ADRs for 2 nights.

I am wondering if any of you will share ideas for meals that you have cooked in your DVC kitchen. I hate to cook the same old stuff that the family gets at home!

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Hmmm... How many are you cooking for? Younger ones and/or teens? We tend to cook 4 dinners on a 5 night stay, but we are just two now.

 

[DisDaydreamer]

One is Tater Tot Casserole. (Like a quick version of shepherd pie)

We cook 1 pound of ground turkey or beef with onions and drain. You put this in the bottom of a 9x13ish pan and then you put a can of cream of whatever, mushroom, celery, chicken etc on it and a can of cream corn and a can of mixed veggies. You can put a sprinkle of cheese across but we skip it. Then you put a bag of tater tots on top and put in 325 oven until the tater tots are cooked. YUMMO!

You got MY attention on this one... All the right ingredients for me (beef, corn, potatoes, gravy).

 

[shortypots]

Spaghetti Bake is an easy one- cook up the pasta while you are making breakfast, then mix it up with a premade sauce, top with mozzerella and parmesan cheese. Only problem with this one is the cleanup.

Other ideas:
Baked Macaroni and cheese
Baked eggplant/chicken/veal parmesan
Homemade chicken/beef soup, start cooking it when you leave in the morning
Spare ribs (leave' em cook for 3-4 hrs with lots of water for steaming)
Meatloaf
Stir fry

If you bring a crock pot with you, Mccormick I think makes a BBQ crock pot mixer that makes great BBQ! Or you could make any # of dishes that could be ready when you came back from the parks.

A Favorite recipe of ours is Champagne Apple/Pear Pork.
Ingredients:
Olive oil - enough to brown the pork
Apples or Pears , skinned and cubed
A Can of Bing cherries, drained (leave a little juice for the sauce)
rosemary for seasoning
1 cup of champagne or white wine, if you want to go NA, try it with apple juice or white grape juice, and make it 3/4 cup juice, 1/4 water to cut the sweetness
1 pork tenderloin cut into even medallions
salt and pepper

When cutting up the pork, add salt and pepper on both sides. Heat up oil and rosemary, then cook medallions on both sides until cooked through. Remove pork and cover then set aside. Deglaze pan with champagne, then add apples/pears til softer then add the cherries til warm, readd the pork til warm, and serve.

Serves 2-3. Great with parmesan cous cous.

 

[LindaBabe]

Don't try a full fledged turkey dinner. We did and discovered the villa kitchens are much better equipt to do the kinds of things mentioned here than meals requiring roasters, many pots, and utensils. I take my electric frypan for studio cooking.

Anything in a camping cookbook works pretty well - foil is your friend.

If you're accustomed to the even heat of a cast iron frying pan, you will not love the thin teflon coated pans in the villas.