Coming Attraction: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I am trying very hard to come up with a menu that centers around Indiana Jones. I know it’s not a *Disney* movie, but Disney owns the merchandising rights, and Indy is in the Disneyland Park as a dark ride that’s actually a lot of fun (for those only familiar with Walt Disney World, it’s the same ride as Dinosaur in Animal Kingdom, except Indy themed). It’s located in Adventureland, so I’m debating whether or not to just find Adventureland menus and try to copy some of their dishes. But dad wants Monkey Brains for dessert (see Temple of Doom if you don’t get the reference).

I know I still need to type up the recipes from the last themed dinner menu, I had to house sit so I didn’t have access to the cookbooks. I forgot to pack them. I should have as I didn’t have internet to hook into with my computer so it would have given me something to do! Oh well, I’ll get to working on it probably this weekend. If I get everything else done that I have on the books to do. Several photo shoots plus a wedding still need finishing after all.

I believe the movie we will watch is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I think it’d be the one we’d all enjoy most. Hopefully we’ll get to eat and watch this time considering last time it went astray. Here’s hoping. Dinner will be July 16. Post to come soon after.

Have some ideas for an Indy themed dinner? Share them in the comments! I want to hear from you!

Coming Attraction: Planes 2

Once again I am horrible at keeping this blog going. Hopefully with my kick starting our family's monthly countdown to Disneyland I can make this happen.

Saturday I will be kicking off our movie dinner countdown with Planes 2. Since we are going to Disneyland this time and not Disney World, I've decided to go with movies and menus that fit particular parts of Disneyland and California Adventure. While Planes 2 takes place in an area that looks more like Yellowstone, it definitely also fits the Northern California feel of Grizzly Peak in California Adventure.

I'll be honest, I am not a fan of the Planes movies. I own both of them because I have this weird need to have all of the Disney animated films, but other than that I just feel like they are spin offs of Cars and at best should've just been released to DVD. There are a lot of iffy things with the second film (mainly the stalker behavior of Dipper) that are off putting.

So why am I going with this and not Brother Bear? Partially because we've already done Brother Bear, but also because I wanted to do a theme focusing on Corn (and Pocahontas just doesn't fit the Disneyland Resort IMO). So we're going to have corn fritters, a corn salad, corn chowder, and a cornbread strawberry shortcake... corny I know. But then so is the movie. ;)

So check back hopefully on Sunday and I'll have photos and recipes and what went wrong and all that jazz.

I've got 4 more months to do menus... what movies do you think fit Disneyland? Help me decide what to do!