~Snowbird Chat~

[MAGGIED]

No fondant is easy to work with... as long as you are not a perfectionist!!!! I have not tried doing a whole cake with it though... one reason is I don't like the taste of it... I find it easier to use regular frosting then decorate with the fondant....

 

[MAGGIED]

Sorry double post....the fingers are working overtime.....

 

[MAGGIED]

So I thought it might be fun to see where everyone has eaten while they are in Disney... as we are thinking about what we want to reserve for our Febuary trip...... in October (when I go with my sister) we are going to a few new places (Yatchmans and Teppan Edo).....
so I started making a list of just the counter service and table service places we have been to.... I think we have hit just about all the snack places...lol... so here is what I have...

Animal Kingdom
Flame Tree Barbecue
Pizzafari
Rainforest Cafe
Yak and Yeti

Hollywood Studios
ABC Commissary
Anaheim Produce
Catalina Eddies
Hollywood and Vine
Mama Melrose
Sci-Fi Dine In
Studio Caterine Company
Toy Story Planet


Epcot
Cool Wash Pizza
Coral Reef
Electric Umbrella
Sunshine Seasons
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
Boulangerie Patisserie
Cantina de San Angel
Chefs de France
Le Cellier Steakhouse
Liberty Inn
Restaurant Marrakesh
Rose and Crown
San Angel Inn
Tangierine Café
(the old Italian restaurant)
plus all the kiosks during Food and Wine Festival

Magic Kingdom

Aloha Isle
Caseys Corner
Cinderellas Royal Table
Columbia Harbour House
Cosmic Rays Crystal Palace
El Pirata y el Perico
Liberty Tree Tavern
Peco Bills
Tomorrowland terrace Noodle Station
Tony’s Town Square

Hotels…
Animal Kingdom Lodge…. Boma and Mara
Beach Club… Beachs and Cream
Boardwalk…… ESPN Club
Caribbean Beach….. Old Port Royale
Contemporary….California Grill, Chef Mickeys, Conempo Café
Coronado Springs….. Maya Grill, Pepper Market
Fort Wilderness…. Trails End Restaurant
Grand Floridian… 1900 Park Fare, Garden View tea, Grand Floridian Café
Polynesian.. Kona Café, Ohanas
Pop Century…. Everything Pop
Port Orleans … Boatwrights (before it closed), Riverside Mill, Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory
Saratoga Springs….. Artisits Palette
Shades of Green…. Garden Gallery

Downtown Disney
Earl of Sandwich
Ghirardelli Soda Fountain
Rainforest Café
Wolfgang Puck Express
Planet Hollywood

 

[Monny2AE]

Wow what a LIST!!!!

We don't do too many sit downs so my list is WAY shorter

Animal Kingdom
Flame Tree Barbecue
Pizzafari

Hollywood Studios
Toy Story Pizza Planet
We got a soda and some fries from that place next to the Star Wars Jedi show- can't remember the name of it


Epcot
Sunshine Seasons
Alfredo's ( I miss that one- we went there on our honeymoon )

Magic Kingdom
Aloha Isle
Caseys Corner
Cosmic Rays
Crystal Palace


Hotels…
Caribbean Beach….. Old Port Royale
Contemporary….Chef Mickeys
Fort Wilderness…. Hoop De Doo
Polynesian.. Luau

Downtown Disney
Earl of Sandwich
Wolfgang Puck Express

 

[Northern Disney Girl]

YAY I Love making lists! I'll play!

Magic Kingdom

CRT
Crystal Palace
El Perita y el Perico
Main St Bakery

Epcot

Biergarten
Nine Dragons
Sunshine Seasons (muffins)

DHS

Toy Story Pizza Planet
50's PTC
Writer's Stop (Hot Chocolate)

Animal Kingdom

Rainforest Cafe
Pizzafari
Ice Cream cart (ice cream sandwiches and frozen bananas)

Resorts

Chef Mickey's (supper)
'Ohana - supper
Whispering Canyon Cafe - breakfast
Roaring Forks (WL)
Stadium Hall (ASSp)
Everything POP

DTD

T-Rex Cafe
Goofy's (candy, of course!)


Not a bad list, eh? Pretty good for a first trip!

 

[letthewookiewin]

We are driving into Syracuse tonight. Madison has an Irish dancing competition there tomorrow. Even though it's only 2 hours away, it's like a mini vacation for us. Our weeks are so crazy with school, grad school for my DH, dance for me, dance and swimming lessons for Madison....it will be nice to spend time with just the 3 of us. Madison is usually done dancing pretty quickly so on the way home, we'll be stopping at an outlet mall that I haven't been to in years! I love retail therapy!

Did anyone see that Toy Story and Toy Story 2 is coming to theaters as a double feature in 3-D! It's only going to be out for 2 weeks!

I hope you guys have fun!! I'm sure she'll dance beautifully. I had totally forgotten about them coming out soon. I don't know if the boys want to see them or not, but we are going.

So I thought it might be fun to see where everyone has eaten while they are in Disney... as we are thinking about what we want to reserve for our Febuary trip...... in October (when I go with my sister) we are going to a few new places (Yatchmans and Teppan Edo).....
so I started making a list of just the counter service and table service places we have been to.... I think we have hit just about all the snack places...lol... so here is what I have...

My list is really small....

Animal Kingdom
Tusker House

Magic Kingdom
Cosmic's Rays
The Lunching Pad
Pinocchio Village Haus

DHS
Backlot Express
Sci-Fi Dine-In

EPCOT
Biergarten
The old restaurant in the Italy before it was Tutto Italia

Resort
CR - Chef Mickey's - breakfast character meal
Poly - 'Ohana - breakfast character meal
WL - Whispering Canyon Cafe

DTD
Bongo's Cuban Cafe


Oh and I found out last night my dog is a Mickey Mouse fan!! The boys broke their toilet last night, and my DH was trying to fix it. It's nothing big just the chain is broken, but it's a plastic chain. I was in the office working on school work. I went to go check on his progress. Well right in the middle of the hallway floor was a big Mickey Mouse head balloon shaped doggy urine stain on the floor. Since my DH didnt' believe me, and wouldn't walk away from trying to fix the toilet, I took a pic with my iPhone to show him. I won't post it since when you get down to it, it's a picture of dog urine. I've always heard that dogs look like their owner's, and I guess they share our interest as well.

Oh and Wendy your cakes look great. However I would like to give some constructive criticism....The only problem I see with your cakes is the zip code they are being made in. You are too far away from TX to make me one

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

Wendy love, love, love the cakes!!!!
Okay....I am gonna put up a list...hope I remember them all!

DTD:
Ghirardelli
Earl of Sandwich
T-Rex

Animal Kingdom:
Restaurantosaurus

Hollywood Studios:
Studio Catering Co. (I think!! if it's the one on the same side as RnRC).
Hollywood Brown Derby
50s Prime Time
ABC Commissary
Sci-Fi
Toy Story Pizza Planet

Epcot:
Le Cellier
Rose & Crown
Alfredos
San Angel (is that the name of the Mexican place? I just went blank)
Nine Dragons
pastry at the little French place in the tiny alley
Garden Grill
Biergarten

Magic Kingdom:
Cinderellas Royal Table
Crystal Palace
Tony's
Caseys
Cosmic Rays
Pecos Bills
Pirate & Parrot
Columbia Harbor House
Liberty Tree Tavern

Resorts:
food courts at Contemporary,All Stars,Poly,GF
O'Hana
Narcoosee's
1900 Park Fair
Chef Mickeys
Cape May
Beaches and Cream
Hoop Dee Doo Review!!!
I think that's all.....wow...and most of them were really good too!!!! Only a few really yuckos!

 

[MAGGIED]

YAY I Love making lists! I'll play!

Not a bad list, eh? Pretty good for a first trip!

Great list for one trip.... mine has taken almost 30 trips to get that many!!!

Wow what a LIST!!!!

We don't do too many sit downs so my list is WAY shorter

Alfredo's ( I miss that one- we went there on our honeymoon )

I loved Alfredo's.... their homemade pasta was wonderful!!!

My list is really small....


Well right in the middle of the hallway floor was a big Mickey Mouse head balloon shaped doggy urine stain on the floor. Since my DH didnt' believe me, and wouldn't walk away from trying to fix the toilet, I took a pic with my iPhone to show him. I won't post it since when you get down to it, it's a picture of dog urine. I've always heard that dogs look like their owner's, and I guess they share our interest as well.

Oh and Wendy your cakes look great. However I would like to give some constructive criticism....The only problem I see with your cakes is the zip code they are being made in. You are too far away from TX to make me one

That's funny about the dog.... except for your damage to your carpet...

I don't think the cakes would ship well as they barely stand straight as it is...

Wendy love, love, love the cakes!!!!
Okay....I am gonna put up a list...hope I remember them all!

I think that's all.....wow...and most of them were really good too!!!! Only a few really yuckos!

Great list... a few I haven't tried....

I would love to try all the Disney places at some point....... well maybe not China..... not sure that place appeals to me....

this is fun.... I love seeing where everyone goes

 

[EPCOT is a verb]

Okay, it took awhile and some thinking back over the years. Some are favorites and some we ate at once and did not go back...

MK:
Cosmic Rays
Crystal Palace
Liberty Tree Tavern
Pecos Bill

Epcot:
Biergarten
Cantina de San Angel
Chefs de France
Le Cellier
Lotus Blossom Cafe
Nine Dragons
Marrakesh
Rose and Crown
San Angel
The old Japan place
Coral Reef
Garden Grill
Sunshine Seasons

DHS:
50's Prime Time
ABC Commissary
Backlot express
Min & Bill's Dockside

AK:
Flame tree BBQ
Rainforest Cafe
Tusker House (before it was TS)

Resorts:
All Stars food courts
AKL Boma
Contemporary The Wave
Contemporary Chef Mickey's
Dolphin Fountain
GF Garden View Tea Room
GF Cafe
Poly Kona Cafe
POP food court
YC Captain's Grille

DD:
Rainforest Cafe
Wolfgang Puck Cafe

I may have missed a couple. Good memories!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Oh, I want to play too! I already posted this list on my PTR, but I'll post it here too just for fun!!

DTD:
Planet Hollywood
Earl of Sandwich
Cooke's of Dublin
Wolfgang Puck Express (2X)


MK:
Crystal Palace breakfast (2X)
Crystal Palace dinner
Plaza Restaurant
Casey's Corner (3X)
Pecos Bill


Epcot:
Garden Grill
Coral Reef
LeCellier (2X)
Boulongie Patiseree (2X)
Electric Umbrella


DHS:
Hollywood & Vine dinner
Mama Melrose (2X)
Sci-Fi Dine-In
Toy Story Pizza Planet (2X)


AK:
Rainforest Cafe
Donald's Restaurantosauras breakfast (no longer available)
Restaurantosauras
Tusker House breakfast


Resorts:
Chef Mickey's dinner (3X)
Ohana breakfast
Cape May breakfast
1900 Park Fare dinner
Big River Grille
CBR Food Court (6X)
POFQ Food Court (3X)
CSR Food Court (3X)

 

[danceintherain]

Wendy- I love the cakes! I'll try to post my adventure with fondant, if I can get the pictures on a site that I can link them here from.

Let's see if I can remember my restaurant list...

Animal Kingdom
Anandapur Local Cafes (Yak & Yeti CS)
Tusker House
Restaurantosaurus
Camp Soft Serve

Hollywood Studios
50's Prime Time
Sci Fi Dine In Theatre
ABC Commissary
Pizza Planet
Rosie's All-American Cafe

Epcot
Coral Reef
Garden Grill
Le Cellier
Biergarten
Yorkshire County Fish Shop
Kringla Bakeri og Cafe
Cantina de San Angel
Funnel Cake Kiosk
Africa Coolpost

Magic Kingdom
Tony's Town Square
Cinderella's Royal Table
Cosmic Ray's
Main Street Bakery
Pinocchio Village Haus
Pecos Bill's

Resorts:
Mara
Jiko
Beaches & Cream
1900 Park Fare
Ohana
Captain Cook's Snack Co.

 

[danceintherain]

My little sister turned 16 at the beginning of this summer, and I tried my hand at a very special birthday cake for her: I wanted to do a topsy turvy cake! It didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to (the bottom layer pretty much fell over before I got the chance to put the top layer on), but she really liked it...

The smaller cake, once I had given up on making it "topsy turvy," was really easy to do with the fondant. The bigger one was a bit more difficult, but it was fun anyways...

 

[Monny2AE]

Geez I never knew we had so many talented cake decorators in our midst!

My weekend plans went down the toilet- pun intended for Wookie. Andrew woke up with a fever this morning so we're skipping the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for now. I still took Em to see the Wild Things at the book store though. I'll post some pics later. It was so cute! And the person that read the story to the kids was a little girl- bless her heart! She did such a good job reading and showing the pictures to the little ones!

He should be the last one to get this virus so I hoping next week is a fever free week Gotta go sanitize some toys...again.

 

[drakes]

I wanna play too!

Animal Kingdom

Camp Soft Serve
Flame Tree BBQ
Dino Bites
Tusker House
Yak & Yeti

Disney Hollywood Studios

50's Prime Time
ABC Commissary
Pizza Planet
Backlot Express
Sci- Fi Dine In

Epcot

Coral Reef
Sunshine Seasons
Garden Grill
Akershus Royal Banquet
Le Cellier
Restaurant Marrakesh
Sommerfest
Teppan Edo
Yorkshire County Fish Shop

Magic Kingdom

Aloha Isle
Crystal Palace
Enchanted Grove
Pinocchio Village Haus
Cosmic Rays
Peco's Bill
Sleepy Hollow
Mrs Potts
Tony's Town Square
Sunshine Tree Terrace

Resorts

Intermission All Star Music
World Premiere All Star Movies
Boma AKL
Cape May BC
Spoodles BW
Chef Mickey's CR
1900 Park Fare GF
GF Café GF
Kona Café Poly
O'hana Poly
Luau Poly
Roaring Fork WL
WCC WL

Cap N Jacks DTD


This was good as I woke up in a panic thinking I need to plan my ADRs ... so between laundry loads, cleaning house, I am planning as well

Happy Saturday!!!

 

[letthewookiewin]

Geez I never knew we had so many talented cake decorators in our midst!

My weekend plans went down the toilet- pun intended for Wookie. Andrew woke up with a fever this morning so we're skipping the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for now. I still took Em to see the Wild Things at the book store though. I'll post some pics later. It was so cute! And the person that read the story to the kids was a little girl- bless her heart! She did such a good job reading and showing the pictures to the little ones!

He should be the last one to get this virus so I hoping next week is a fever free week Gotta go sanitize some toys...again.

That made me giggle. Luckily it was before class actually started. That's right I'm DIS'ing while in class.

I'm sorry your little man is sick. Hopefully he will get better and you can see it soon. I asked m DH if we could see it and he said "no". John had a really good day at school. Something happened that if it had happened last year, he would have beaten the heck out of the kid. On Fridays they have like a show and tell. They call it "Fun Friday". Well back when Stars Wars Epi 1 was coming out, they had these trading cards. I bought a ton of them and didn't open them. When the teacher said that another boy had gotten one of his Star Wars cards and torn it up, but that John just walked away and told them teacher. If that had happened last year, he would have beaten the heck out of him. He has no fear of anyone, no matter there size. In 1st or 2nd grade (can't remember now) he punched a huge 4th grader for not moving out of his way fast enough. Well I was like "what do you mean Star Wars cards? He's not even supposed to touch those let alone have them at school." She looked like she felt bad for me and said, "well where can you buy them so I can tell the parents they have to replace them." "yeah you can't, those were only sold while Epi 1 was in theaters." She just kept saying she was sorry over and over again. I just kept telling her it wasn't her fault, and since John didn't beat the kid I was happy, that was enough for me. Well on the way home, I remembered that some time back John had found the cards and opened them and brought me the stack. I was upset at him for doing it. Since they were opened anyway, I went through and gave him all the duplicate cards. So I am going to send a note to the teacher on Monday telling her so she doesn't feel bad about it.
Last night David took us out to dinner at Carino's an Italian restaurant. I had the same thing I always get, the Bowtie Festival. It is bowtie pasta with grilled chicken, bacon, garlic, red onions, roma tomatoes and asiago cream sauce.

 

[MAGGIED]

My little sister turned 16 at the beginning of this summer, and I tried my hand at a very special birthday cake for her: I wanted to do a topsy turvy cake! It didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to (the bottom layer pretty much fell over before I got the chance to put the top layer on), but she really liked it...

The smaller cake, once I had given up on making it "topsy turvy," was really easy to do with the fondant. The bigger one was a bit more difficult, but it was fun anyways...

The cake is soooooo cute!!! You are braver than I .... I just decorated in fondant... I couldn't do all the "frosting" ... probably because I don't like the taste.......or at least the is the excuse I leave

Geez I never knew we had so many talented cake decorators in our midst!

My weekend plans went down the toilet- pun intended for Wookie. Andrew woke up with a fever this morning so we're skipping the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for now. I still took Em to see the Wild Things at the book store though. I'll post some pics later. It was so cute! And the person that read the story to the kids was a little girl- bless her heart! She did such a good job reading and showing the pictures to the little ones!

He should be the last one to get this virus so I hoping next week is a fever free week Gotta go sanitize some toys...again.

Hope your little guy feels better soon!!!!

 

[Momto2PrncChrmgs]

I'll try this list...this could be hard:

MK
Cosmic Rays (several times-I don't think we've really eaten anywhere else).
Auntie Gravities for smoothies-yum!
Main Street Bakery

EPCOT
Biergarten (several times)
Le Cellier
Electric Umbrella (so so)
Fish Shop in UK for CS
Independence Inn
CS in Mexico

AK
Tusker House breakfast (twice)
Pizzafari
Flame Tree BBQ

DS
Toy Story Pizza Planet (too many times)
Prime Time Diner (twice)
Hollywood and Vine

Resorts
ASMovies
Pop
CBR (I don't know the names, sorry)
1900 Park Fair
California Grill (several times)
Ohana (several times)
Whispering Canyon Cafe

We repeat alot, so I really want to branch out to try new ones!
Thanks for the idea to do this Wendy~I've been REALLY crabby and this was a nice little escape...

 

[Dancegrl624]

We're back from a fantasic day of feising (pronounced feshing) and outlet mall shopping. Madison got a 2nd place on her jig!!! She's only gotten a 5th on her jig before, so we were very excited for her. After the feis (fesh), we went to the outlet mall and snagged some great deals for the whole family.

I would post a list of all the places I've eaten, but I don't remember all of them! We went so many times when I was little and I had NO idea where I was eating. Maybe I'll rack my brain and post tomorrow.

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

I totally forgot Main Street Bakery and the Pinocchio place!!
Kim~ Sorry you have another weekend of sickness!!! Hopefully you will be done after this!!
I worked on my back flower beds---dang near killed my back!!!! I took some pics of the front.. but I was so overheated, they may not even be in focus I will try to remember to post one or two tonight!

 

[danceintherain]

The cake is soooooo cute!!! You are braver than I .... I just decorated in fondant... I couldn't do all the "frosting" ... probably because I don't like the taste.......or at least the is the excuse I leave

Hope your little guy feels better soon!!!!

I don't like the taste of fondant either, but I went with my sister to see the Hannah Montana movie a couple months before her birthday and when she saw Lilly's Birthday cake, she said "Wow, cool" so that was my inspiration.
Covering with fondant really wasn't that hard. I got the Wilton fondant smoother and it actually was pretty easy to spread it out then cut off the excess.
It was funny though, because I felt like I was Fauna the Sleeping Beauty fairy, because that's what the fondant looked like when I was trying to put it on the cake. I had problems icing the cake in the first place...

She ended up being thrilled, because she got 3 cakes. We got her a cookie cake as a back-up, plus she had the two layers of the cake I tried to make for her.