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Top Six Tips
To Bring Disney Magic To Your Holiday Dinner
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Whether you’re experiencing the
holidays at Walt Disney World Resort, or waiting until after the
snow on Main Street U.S.A has passed, Walt Disney World Chef
Charles Dolson, area chef of The Land Pavilion at Epcot, shows
you how to show your Disney Side at home for your festive food and
beverages.
Chef Dolson and team often use fresh produce grown in Epcot’s
on-site greenhouses to make thousands of meals each week, but fun
touches at home can add magic to your meal, with ingredients you
likely already have in your kitchen. “Simply adding one extra
ingredient can change a dish completely,” says Chef Dolson.
Here are six easy-to-do tips from the savory main course to the
bubbly sips: |
- Turkey Tip – Create a rub
with compound butter – softened butter, blended with fresh herbs
and spices such as salt, pepper, garlic, sage, dill, and
rosemary. Rub the butter under and over the skin of the turkey,
so that the bird bastes itself as the butter melts. You can also
use a compound butter over other poultry, or a beef or pork
roast.
- Cranberry Tip –Liven up
canned cranberry sauce by adding port wine, orange zest, grated
ginger and fresh or frozen whole cranberries. Stir and simmer
until most of the berries have softened or burst. Then, pour in
a mold and chill.
- Salad Tip – Forget the
croutons. Add fresh fruit (strawberries, blueberries) and nuts
(walnuts, pecans) to a tossed salad for crunch, texture,
sweetness, and tartness. Pour the dressing around the edges of a
salad before you toss it, instead of over the top. The dressing
will be better distributed and the lettuce less likely to
bruise.
- Champagne Tip – Keep a
glass of bubbly chilled and fizzy with a wooden skewer of frozen
cranberries, blueberries, or strawberry chunks.
- Candy Cane Brownies Tip –
Customize store-bought brownie mix by adding crushed candy canes
to the batter and also sprinkling them over the top.
- Kitchen Help Tip – If
family and friends come to the kitchen and ask to help, let
them! Putting ice cubes in glasses or setting pre-prepped items
on the dinner table are little things, but they’re also now
things that someone else is handling.
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| BONUS TIP from Chef Dolson – Don’t
stress over making a perfect holiday dinner. Instead, make sure to
enjoy your family and friends. “The meal is wonderful and the food
is important, but it’s really the company that makes the
celebration,” says Dolson. |
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call Academy Travel at
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