Category: Disney & DreamWorks
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Ginger Snaps from The Rescuers
It’s that time of year where everyone starts making (or just eating) gingerbread cookies and gingerbread houses and I’m over here wondering why. Once you’ve got the gingerbread made you still have to decorate with icing and candy. I guess that’s half the fun? But it’s also twice the work and, as previously mentioned, I…
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Chicken Pot Pie from Chicken Run
Before I even get started, I want to make sure everyone feels more comfortable knowing I used my woman’s touch the entire time I was making this chicken pot pie from Chicken Run. Normally I prefer to use a manly touch when rolling out pastry dough for a pie (kneading dough is hard work!) but…
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Cheese Crumpets from The Great Mouse Detective
I really hate to start this entry off with a definition in relation to cheese crumpets. But, I’m going to do it anyway: A crumpet is a small griddle cake made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour and yeast, eaten in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and some areas of…
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Mushu’s Breakfast from Mulan
I was not very culinarily sophisticated when I first saw the movie Mulan. That’s not to say that I’m particularly sophisticated now either. And so, on my first Mulan viewing when Mushu was serving up porridge I thought it oatmeal. I now realize that Mushu’s Breakfast is actually rice porridge, aka congee. If you don’t…
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The Grey Stuff from Beauty and the Beast
In many parts of the world (or at least in my part of the world) school is now out for summer. That means three whole months of Spaghetti-o’s and daytime TV! For a lot of families with young children it means taking the trip to a Disney related theme park. And depending on the theme…
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Empire Biscuits from Brave
I know it’s not my place to criticize people on the internet – that’s a job for literally the rest of the internet. However, I can’t quite understand the sheer amount of Empire Cookies, from the Pixar movie Brave, that look absolutely nothing like they do in the movie. Based on my extremely detailed research…