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Easy Disney Cooking: Kona Cafe Hawaiian Pasta Salad

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Now that we’re all cooking about five meals a day during Staycation 2020, this favorite pasta salad emerged this week as one the kids can make. I’m not sure that it was even on the menu at Disney’s Kona Cafe, but it showed up as a side dish during lunch for many years. We have a beloved tradition of eating at Kona Cafe on our first day of arrival, and I would start craving this by the time we were crossing I-10.  Of course, this was all before they made those most dreadful menu changes. Hey, at least the sticky wings are back. Continue reading “Easy Disney Cooking: Kona Cafe Hawaiian Pasta Salad” →

Drinking Around the Monorail and Midnight at the Fort

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the_wave_contemporaryWith all of the expansion of Walt Disney World, it is still the original Magic Kingdom areas that make the resort so unique.  Now, I have nothing against Drinking Around the World in Epcot, except that is physically impossible for most of us over 25. Drinking Around the Monorail presents many advantages. Not only is it more achievable (and responsible), but I honestly find it more enjoyable. It also doesn’t bear the cost to get into a park, which is a kind of big deal if everyone is not an annual passholder. Continue reading “Drinking Around the Monorail and Midnight at the Fort” →