The Battle For My Wallet V: Beyond the Number IV (Chapter Eighteen, p.75, 5/18)

[ZZUB]

PISCESANGEL: I noticed your signature and thought, "that's funny." She identifies her trips by restaurants. Then I realized you were telling us where you'll be eating on your upcoming trip. Which is further proof that food is a BIG part of the Disney Experience. Or was.

BORG. I KNEW there must be something we had in common!!

Oh I don't know, I reckon we have more in common than you think. Just b/c you're a loony lefty and I'm a rabid right winger doesn't mean we can't be friends.

Hmmmm, that does sound like a minority to me. Unless we're talking electoral college.

Actually, that was Bill Clinton's popluar vote percentage. People forget that he never won a majority of the popular vote. Democrats like the electoral college except when they don't.

Sorry. Can't even give him that 6 months. Notgonnadoit.

Oh come on, Ashclan! Even I can concede that Bill Clinton didn't destroy the economy. You can concede that W. handled the country well at least right after 9/11.

But all the rest of this, except for a couple of the songs with which I'm not familiar and the Cadillac (seriously?) was pretty dadgum spot on

That's right baby! ZZUB loves him some American made. And the CTS is the Cadillac for guys like me.

Just one more thing. As I wandered around our favorite place last week, I had many thoughts of you and so many of my other CIFs (Creepy Internet Friends, TFI). One freaky ZZUB borg moment - we met a family of Soarin' first timers in line for said ride and invited them to sit "front and center" with us. They were thrilled. Thanks for the inspiration!

That melts my butter. Thanks for telling me that.

And b/c my friend from Montana is prohibited from posting here, it appears you will win the longest response of the week award. Sadly for you: this week's prize is an autographed copy of George W. Bush's Second State of the Union. I reckon I'll just keep that for myself.

Ok, cake brought me out of lurking. Great chapter Zzub! I too build my trip around my meals and, admittedly, cake.

See how good Butter Grilled Pound Cakeis? It brings people out of lurking!

Sadly, there's no cake-eating smilie.

That ain't right. If only Haley were here to scour the internet and find us a cake eating emoticon.

I can't believe that you are that guy.
And yet I can.

Sad, isn't it? You don't want to leave cake around if ZZUB's in the house.

I never have room for dessert, but have been known to have cake for dinner, or lunch, or breakfast.

Welcome out of lurkdome (be careful not to trip on the Ignored Idiots). I like anyone who thinks cake is a fine meal all by itself.

I'm sure this has been talked about already, but what about the TIDE recruiting class this year?

I think it has but we don't tire of reminding people that WE HAD THE NUMBER ONE RECRUITING CLASS. Fotunately, by the time we slouch to an 8-4 season, most people won't remember how rudely we boasted. Or they'll have the good taste not to rub our noses in it.

A GREAT writer once told me to write about what you know. Based on this beautiful chapter YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR CAKE! I can't believe the cake chapter is as good as the opposite chapter. Amazing.

Don't ever question my knowledge of cake again. Call me dumb, a shyster, bald even (although I am NOT BALD!), but don't ever question my knowledge of cake.

 

[CJsMom]

Chapter Sixteen: I Come To Bury the Food Police, Not Praise Them

Who in their right mind gets giddy over poundcake?!

The same morons who make reservations for lunch 180 days before they’re going to eat it.

Who you callin' a moron?? MOI?

Why? Why is it gone?

Yeah, why is it gone? Before we all got to try it?! Now I'm jealous cuz you got to eat cake that I never even knew existed!

 

[tammyandtommy]

I thought I could do you a small favor and reasearch this recipe for you. I stumbled onto the DIS's Disney Recipe board, and a Dis'er named Goofy's mama submitted this...
Liberty Tree Tavern
Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Griddled Pound Cake with Pecan Caramel Sauce

Pound Cake

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2-teaspoon baking powder
1/4-teaspoon salt
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter; softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutes
1-teaspoon vanilla
1/2-cup whole milk, at room temperature
Method: Preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter and flour loaf pan, knocking out excess flour.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer or 5 with a handheld. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and then add vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture and milk alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour and mixing until just incorporated. Spoon batter into loaf pan and bake until golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out with crumbs adhering, 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Cool cake in pan on a rack 30 minutes, then invert onto rack and cool completely.
Cut a piece of pound cake into a size you like. Brush the pound cake with butter and heat using a griddle or a non-stick saute pan until both sides are golden brown. Serve with the heated Pecan-Carmel sauce and any ice cream flavor you would like.
PECAN SAUCE

Heavy Cream 1/2 cup
Light Brown Sugar 1 cup
Butter (softened) 1/2 cup
Chopped Pecans ¼ cup.

Method: In saucepan over low heat combine heavy cream and light brown sugar. Stir until brown sugar is dissolved. Add butter a little at a time and stir until all ingredients are well combined. Stir 2 more minutes. Remove from heat and add chopped pecans.

While it may not be on the menu at the LTT, now it can be on yours... that is if Mrs. ZZub allows it!

 

[AshClan]

TammyandTommy, THANK YOU! Three sticks of butter is nothin'. I am MAKING this baby. But not until after my college reunion, Mid-May. After my Disney foodfest of last week, I am on a starvation diet until I see all those people with whom I was friends 25 years and 40-plus pounds ago. (Disclaimer: I was really skinny in college....)

And Z, I still can't give W any credit. Even post 9-11. Sorry. I will give any other President, Republican or Democrat, credit for some part of their presidency. But not that one. Just can't.

And I never said I only liked the electoral college only when it favors Democrats. It is a flawed system. Regardless of whom it benefits.

Happy that my Soarin' story melted your butter. All the easier to make the cake!!

 

[EEyorelover22]

http://www.gcfb.net/menu/desserts.cfm

I loved this cake, however, it must have caramel color in it so I can no longer eat it. I have to suffer by only eating the Wild Berry Blast pie.
This place is AWESOME!!! YUMMY!!

Dessert is the most important part of any meal. I always read that menu FIRST!!

I LOVE TONGA TOAST BY THE WAY!!!!

 

[PISCESANGEL]

Originally Posted by ZZUB

PISCESANGEL: I noticed your signature and thought, "that's funny." She identifies her trips by restaurants. Then I realized you were telling us where you'll be eating on your upcoming trip. Which is further proof that food is a BIG part of the Disney Experience. Or was.

Finally!! Somebody who gets it. I added the restaurants I'm eating at because we actually do plan our days around what we will be eating. It's strange that WDW is the only place in life that I would do that.

I'm starting to wonder though, with all of the menu changes, if I will feel the same after this upcoming trip. We went in April on the Dining Plan and I already noticed alot of changes. Sorry that your pound cake had to be one of them.

Lest they ever touch the Tonga Toast, someone will be in real trouble!

 

[javamom]

How good is it?

Butter Grilled Pound Cake is smothered in a caramel pecan sauce that is not too heavy or too overpowering. It’s the most perfect blend of flavors and textures. Moist, dense, buttery cake, softly sweet caramel sauce with a hint of pecan flavor. Indeed, the entire experience of Butter Grilled Pound Cake is perfection. It’s the end of the 1994 Alabama Auburn game, it’s Piano Man, it’s Yoo Hoo, it’s George W. Bush after 9/11 and before the war in Iraq, it’s landing on the moon, it’s a Cadillac CTS, it’s the 1992 Crimson Tide, it’s the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey Team, it’s Joshua Tree, it’s my freshman year at Alabama, it’s my senior year at Alabama, it’s the act one finale of Les Miserables, it’s having the right girl just smile at you, it’s Rudy, it’s Saving Private Ryan, it's Apollo 13, it’s a drive through the mountains on an early fall day, it’s the sound of the ocean slamming into the rugged coastline, it’s a good apple, it’s Soarin’, it’s Test Track, It’s “Paging Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow,” it’s A Separate Peace, it’s Huck Finn, it’s Seinfeld, Frasier, Cheers and West Wing, it’s Saturday Night Live with Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, it’s The Stranger, it’s Freebird, it’s Live Like You Were Dying, it’s I Go Back, it’s hanging out with your best friends the night before you graduate high school, it’s sitting on the steps of Comer Hall after you’ve finished your last exam, it’s Free Dining, it’s your seeing your little girl’s face when she spots Mickey Mouse and runs to him, it’s Walking in Memphis, it’s The Color Green, it’s my wife saying “yes,” it’s seeing my girls being born. Yes, Butter Grilled Pound Cake is the confluence of all good things.

___

Ah yes, my friend, these are a few of my favorite things, too.

Butter: GUD
Grilled: GUD
Cake: GUD

Alas, the cake is gone...



but my hips are not!

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Thanks for another great installment. Tha loks sooo delicious. We had dinner at LTT in Dec. and I don't remember it. Maybe they had already changed it, or maybe they never served it for dinner. Anyway thanks for another entertaining read!!!

 

[DJR]

Well its not exactly butter pound cake, but you get the idea. At least the hair is right!

 

[samc]

I think it has but we don't tire of reminding people that WE HAD THE NUMBER ONE RECRUITING CLASS. Fotunately, by the time we slouch to an 8-4 season, most people won't remember how rudely we boasted. Or they'll have the good taste not to rub our noses in it .

not where I live

 

[Brenle]

Are you kidding me? A whole chapter on *ahem* CAKE? Your mama must have dropped you when you were a baby.

All dessert connoisseurs know it's ALL about PIE. That's right, PIE. French silk pie, apple pie, key lime pie. Pie!

 

[ZZUB]

They NEVER had Butter Griddled Pound Cake. Or did they? Who knows?

I thought I could do you a small favor and reasearch this recipe for you. While it may not be on the menu at the LTT, now it can be on yours... that is if Mrs. ZZub allows it!

Thank you TnT. I sure appreciate your effort. So does Ashclan. I had already scoped out the recipe several months ago. And my wife refused to make it. Too much butter.

TammyandTommy, THANK YOU! Three sticks of butter is nothin'. I am MAKING this baby. But not until after my college reunion, Mid-May.

This must be what, your 30 year college reunion? I'll make a deal with you Ashclan, I'll personally bake and overnight ship three Butter Griddled Pound Cakes to you if at your reunion you announce to your college friends the greatest accomplishment since you left Vassar or Sarah Lawrence or Wellseley (or whatever hippy dippy leftist chick college you graduated from) is forming a group of Creepy Internet Friends on the Disboards. If you work into the conversation that your life's goal is to meet ZZUB, I've got Four Annual Passes with your name on them.

Finally, show up wearing your "I Heart W" pin and wear it for the entire reunion and I'll pay for your family to buy into DVC. And stay someplace nice, like AKV, not at that craphole SSR.

Dessert is the most important part of any meal. I always read that menu FIRST!! I LOVE TONGA TOAST BY THE WAY!!!!

Ditto. Mega dittos even.

I'm starting to wonder though, with all of the menu changes, if I will feel the same after this upcoming trip. We went in April on the Dining Plan and I already noticed alot of changes.

We notice every year something we love is gone. Many times, however, we discover something new. That is what is so vexing about the death of Butter Grilled Pound Cake, we just met and fell in love. Now it's gone.

JavaMama: I see y'all have bought into DVC. For those of us who "knew" you when you hadn't even been to Disney World yet, it's fun to watch you develop into a full-fledged Disney geek. I hope you write a TR about your upcoming vacation.

At least the hair is right!

You could try to be more wrong, but you would not be successful.

:not where I live:

Yes, but where you live, even though that pathetic cow college has beaten us six years in a row, they still have an inferiority complex. Mostly b/c they are inferior.

Brenle: Didn't I already put you ignore? Why would come around here with that pie smack talk? That ain't right. Pie is good. But CAKE is the King of desserts. Ask Elvis, apparently he's living in LaLa's backyard. To no one's surprise. One imagines there's a whole bunch of freakiness in her backyard. Most of it on cement blocks.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

Zzub--thanks for finally writing about what's important! I've been enjoying this whole report so much (even though I am an LSU Tiger). I am afraid you're getting to the end of this vacation, so I hope another one is planned soon.

tammyandtommy--thanks for finding the recipe. I want to make it, but use sara lee pound cake instead (too much trouble to do all that baking).

 

[AshClan]

This must be what, your 30 year college reunion? I'll make a deal with you Ashclan, I'll personally bake and overnight ship three Butter Griddled Pound Cakes to you if at your reunion you announce to your college friends the greatest accomplishment since you left Vassar or Sarah Lawrence or Wellseley (or whatever hippy dippy leftist chick college you graduated from) is forming a group of Creepy Internet Friends on the Disboards. If you work into the conversation that your life's goal is to meet ZZUB, I've got Four Annual Passes with your name on them.

Finally, show up wearing your "I Heart W" pin and wear it for the entire reunion and I'll pay for your family to buy into DVC. And stay someplace nice, like AKV, not at that craphole SSR.

Read again, Lord Marbury. 25th. So if you were being sarcastic about my age, you weren't far off. If you really thought it was 30.....well, you weren't far off.

And if I wore an "I Heart W" pin to my hippy dippy leftist college (yes, you are right, but it's not a chick college. At least I hope it isn't, as my husband was in my graduating class), I would not come back alive. Fortunately, we already bought into DVC in 2006. So no worries there.

I have no trouble talking about my CIFs, BTW. But life's goal? Meeting ZZUB? I don't think the Republican Nat'l Convention is on my agenda for this year, so that one's gonna have to wait.....

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

If statistics can be believed, then at least 47% of the people reading this have also built a day’s itinerary around a meal.

A day? How about every day. Sweet LORD, I think I'm looking forward to the places were eating a tiny smidge more than actually staying in the World.

Somewhere, in the distance, I hear my Weight Watchers membership sobbing.

Butter Grilled Pound Cake.

A moment please.

I needed more than a moment. If I dare say it (and, apparently, I dare) this picture brought on a stronger reaction than the first time I saw a picture of Tonga Toast. I immediately checked the costs of a flight to the World TODAY. But alas, then I read on.

suckulous

If an opportunity does not present itself to use this word today, I will MAKE one.

We are word maker upper-ers in the Tinkerbellarella household. As if upper-ers didn't give that away.

Because I'm trying NOT to win AshClan's signed copy of good ol' Dubyah's address, I'm not going to quote what are quickly becoming the infamous "Two Best Paragraphs Ever Written on the DIS". But I do want to commend you. That was some fine, fine writing.

Trans fats, like global warming, must be eliminated! And just like global warming, the “science” that “proved” these nefarious trans fats were causing health problems was less certain than the intelligence that concluded Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

It's really too bad that the trans fat people weren't on the same side of the people that have "proven" that "global warning" does not exist. Because then "trans fats" wouldn't exist either. And we could all have our cake.

If only Marie Antoinette were a dining cast member.

This was "hyperventilating funny". To me.

and some yahoo brings me out a freakin' PINEAPPLE RING with caramel sauce and proclaims that the replacement dessert

Fall on the floor funny, NM. Which is like "hyperventilating funny" only requires more oxygen and some sort of soft surface.

Much like the large ruckus that just occured over Le Cellier changing its menu.

Seriously. People are ready to get violent over the now absent maple filet. I'm a little afraid of going there in the fall for our ADR. But what to replace it with? Teppanyuki?

Oh, and Z? Tell Mrs. Z that much butter is nothin'. Have you ever seen Paula Dean cook on The Food Network? She uses at minimum 3 sticks of butter, heavy cream, some sort of cheese sauce and about a pound of sugar in just about everything she makes. And she's still kickin' around.

Eh. Worst case scenario you could always invest in some Sara Lee, a griddle pan and some caramel ice cream topping.

You and your chapter about THAT CAKE were the bomb. Diggity.

 

[Sneezie]

I have thoroughly enjoyed this chapter, because I thoroughly enjoy cake. It is my absolute favorite dessert. Cake is.

Chocolate Cake, Yellow Cake, Wedding Cake, Spice Cake, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Rum Cake, Lemon Cake, German Chocolate Cake, Cake with strawberry filling, coconut filling, pineapple filling, lemon filling, cake with just icing in the middle.... I love cake.

I will go to my local Winn Dixie store and buy one of their already made cakes and ask them to put Happy Birthday Tamara on it in April, even though my birthday's in August.

Cake is the reason my dog has a birthday party every year.

I tried to save the top tier of my wedding cake to eat on my first anniversary, but I devoured it while we opened presents a week later.

Cake will be my downfall....

As I read your chapter, I was mentally writing down, "Cake, LTT" for our short trip in September, my left arm gave a sharp pang, but I ignored it and continued to read. I can't even see the picture of the cake, but I knew I had to have it. Anything with 'Butter', 'Grilled', 'Pound' and 'Cake' in it's name is something Sneezie has to try. I had to read over the paragraph a few times when you said it was no longer sold, I was hoping that I'd just read to fast and misunderstood, but alas, it was not to be. I'm so sorry I missed that cake!

I did get the recipe though and I plan to try it. I guess there's something good about not having a wife, but don't tell my husband I said that.

You're in my prayers.

 

[PirateFish989]

ZZUB, I must say, I'm a little disappointed that you only managed to sneak in 3 pictures of the Butter Grilled Pound Cake.

Cake You just can't beat it. Especially Red Velvet Cake. With a Cream Cheese frosting. Heaven on Earth.

And yes, cake MUST be moist!

An excellent chapter, as always.

 

[Brenle]

Finally, show up wearing your "I Heart W" pin and wear it for the entire reunion and I'll pay for your family to buy into DVC. And stay someplace nice, like AKV, not at that craphole SSR.

Brenle: Didn't I already put you ignore? Why would come around here with that pie smack talk? That ain't right. Pie is good. But CAKE is the King of desserts. Ask Elvis, apparently he's living in LaLa's backyard. To no one's surprise. One imagines there's a whole bunch of freakiness in her backyard. Most of it on cement blocks.

I love smack-talking. Unfortunately for you, it's an extra-special treat for me seeing you're an attorney and all. Usually I have to do ALL the listening - but now I get to spout off. Makes me . And putting me on "ignore" won't stop me from posting my opinions, but try if you will.

And another thing, SSR is not a craphole. You'd better hide once the posters over on the DVC board get a load of this. But then again - that's probably just what you're hoping for.

Oh, and another thing, another name for butter grilled pound cake is heart attack on a plate.

 

[ZZUB]

SNEEZIE!Where have you been?! Haven't seen a post from you in forever. Welcome back!

Zzub--thanks for finally writing about what's important! I've been enjoying this whole report so much (even though I am an LSU Tiger).

We welcome all kinds here on ZZUB's TR. Even Bengal Tigers. Heck, I don't mind LSU, and I've been known to pull for you a time or two. Just not when you're playing us of course.

Read again, Lord Marbury. 25th.

I confess, I over-reached at 30 b/c I was certain you weren't old enough to be attending anything past your 15th reunion. Which means judging from the wee little picture of you in your signature, I deduced you were closer to my age than my mom's. I was wrong. Ooops.

Meeting ZZUB? I don't think the Republican Nat'l Convention is on my agenda for this year, so that one's gonna have to wait.....

Since we're not nominating a Republican this year, I won't be there either.

I needed more than a moment. If I dare say it (and, apparently, I dare) this picture brought on a stronger reaction than the first time I saw a picture of Tonga Toast.

I love me some Tonga Toast but truthfully, the Butter Grilled Pound Cake was better.

Because I'm trying NOT to win AshClan's signed copy of good ol' Dubyah's address, I'm not going to quote what are quickly becoming the infamous "Two Best Paragraphs Ever Written on the DIS". But I do want to commend you. That was some fine, fine writing.

Why? Already have a copy?

FYI: Your posts always make me laugh. Thanks.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this chapter, because I thoroughly enjoy cake. It is my absolute favorite dessert. Cake is. Chocolate Cake, Yellow Cake, Wedding Cake, Spice Cake, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Rum Cake, Lemon Cake, German Chocolate Cake, Cake with strawberry filling, coconut filling, pineapple filling, lemon filling, cake with just icing in the middle.... I love cake.

So it's obvious now that we're kin, separated at birth no doubt.

I will go to my local Winn Dixie store and buy one of their already made cakes and ask them to put Happy Birthday Tamara on it in April, even though my birthday's in August.

This would be even funnier (if that's possible) if your name wasn't Tamara.

Cake You just can't beat it. Especially Red Velvet Cake. With a Cream Cheese frosting. Heaven on Earth.

I've sworn off Red Velvet Cake. I've had my heart broken by it too many times. It always looks moist but rarely is. Plus, some idiots put nuts in it. That's full on gross. On the other hand, it does have cream cheese icing. You could put that on a turd and it'd be good. NOLaLa'shomecooking.

Oh, and another thing, another name for butter grilled pound cake is heart attack on a plate.

It's obvious you're just goading me. And yet this cannot go unrebutted. We're all gonna die eventually. Might as well die with a smile on your face. People who limit themselves to vegetables and pie don't smile. It's a fact. Look it up. And further proving you incorrect, I ate me a whole helping of Butter Grilled Pound Cake and lived to tell about it.

 

[Brenle]

It's obvious you're just goading me. And yet this cannot go unrebutted. We're all gonna die eventually. Might as well die with a smile on your face. People who limit themselves to vegetables and pie don't smile. It's a fact. Look it up. And further proving you incorrect, I ate me a whole helping of Butter Grilled Pound Cake and lived to tell about it.

Zzub, aren't you supposed to be working - you know, writing a brief, preparing for a depo? And yet I find more and more posts by you during *ahem* working hours. Googled pie, vegetables and smiling. Came up with . . . zippo. And I'm glad you're still alive. But heed the warning.