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Recipe Remake – Epcot World Showcase Edition 1/11 – San Angel Inn Restaurante Tacos de Ribeye (for the Instant Pot)

Recipe Remake – Epcot World Showcase Edition 1/11 – San Angel Inn Restaurante Tacos de Ribeye (for the Instant Pot)

Some (many?) weeks when you’re putting together the grocery list you struggle for inspiration. My family could probably tell you the precise number of weeks in the past few years we’ve defaulted to the ground beef tacos-pasta-burgers line-up. That’s not a bad thing – I make great ground beef tacos and pasta and burgers, each of which I can quickly adapt for myself to keep it keto, so to speak. But when the groans from my family became audible on…

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Menu Review – Candied Bacon Skewer with Chips

Menu Review – Candied Bacon Skewer with Chips

The typical list of the best Disney snacks reads like a ketoer’s nightmare: Dole Whip (colorful, frozen, fruity sugar), popcorn (starch in a keepsake bucket), churros (sugary, unshaped dough), Mickey Pretzel (salty, shaped dough), Mickey Premium Bar (frozen, chocolaty sugar), Candied Bacon Skewer with Chips…wait, BACON??? You read that right: bacon.  I came across this little gem at Westward Ho Refreshments (across from Country Bear Jamboree) in Frontierland en route from my Haunted Mansion FP+ to my Pirates of the…

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Recipe Remake – Sanaa Biryani (for the Instant Pot)

Recipe Remake – Sanaa Biryani (for the Instant Pot)

Sanaa seems to be on everyone’s list of top WDW restaurants these days. Which sounds great until, as a ketoer, you hear that almost everyone’s favorite menu item is the Indian-style Bread Service. Nothing about a choice of five breads and accompaniments including chutneys would leave you to believe that there’s any chance that a meal at Sanaa is going to end well for someone trying to maintain a low carb lifestyle, Artisanal Cheese Selection notwithstanding. But there are only…

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Restaurant Report – Napa Rose

Restaurant Report – Napa Rose

For those who have never been to Disneyland Resort before, if you were to be blindfolded and dropped in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, you might guess on opening your eyes that you were at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World Resort. If instead of the lobby you were dropped in Napa Rose, one of Executive Chef Andrew Sutton’s Disneyland Signature Restaurants, there’s no danger you would think you were at Whispering Canyon Café back…

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Menu (p)Review – Woody’s Lunch Box

Menu (p)Review – Woody’s Lunch Box

I’d be lying if I said I’m as excited as anyone about the opening of Toy Story Land in DHS in about two weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favor of almost any new developments in the parks, but it’s going to take more than a kiddie roller coaster (Slinky Dog Dash) and some ASS (Alien Swirling Saucers) to generate enthusiasm on my part. Unfortunately, for a ketoer like me, that something extra isn’t to be found in the…

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Recipe Remake – Tambu Lounge Lapu Lapu

Recipe Remake – Tambu Lounge Lapu Lapu

As I sit watching Hercules for the first time, it occurs to me (not for the first time) that I’m a manly man…in spite of my love of what some would say are unmanly drinks. I’m not gonna lie – I enjoy a good Lapu Lapu as much as anyone. And for the record, I’m not referring to anything that went on at my bachelor party in Las Vegas. Besides, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. No, the Lapu Lapu…

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