Cucumber Tomato Salad Canoes

Camping at Fort Wilderness is the perfect place to make food fun. After a nice canoe ride on the Meadow canals, a cucumber tomato salad canoe is a refreshing and happy way to enjoy lunch or dinner.

This recipe is a very easy classic that is best with fresh summer tomatoes, but can be made anytime of the year with cherry or grape tomatoes. To make it Epcot style (Restaurant Marrakesh), you’ll simply add in the optional cumin listed in the recipe. A super quick version is to substitute the dressing altogether with bottled prepared Italian salad dressing.  Continue reading “Cucumber Tomato Salad Canoes”

Fort Wilderness When Disney Arrived – 1963

 

Roy Disney (in glasses) inspecting hunting land that would become Disney World.

Neither Disney World nor Fort Wilderness sprang up overnight, but rather took nearly 20 years to come to fruition. Following the success of Disneyland in California, Walt Disney and his brother scouted locations in Florida for his “Disneyland East.” Allegedly, he selected Florida due to its warm climate after first considering New York. After viewing sites near Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Ocala, Walt made one more trip by plane to areas near Orlando. This was on November 21, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy died.  Continue reading “Fort Wilderness When Disney Arrived – 1963”