February 2023 Chatty Thread

It was a wonderful breakfast indeed. Good company and good food helps the Monday thru Fridays.

Finding the misprinted festival booklets was difficult but we finally found some. Hopefully the next proof reader will do better.  The clouds helped with the heat…not really but less sun beating on us was good. Epcot was really busy. I’m sure opening weekend is though. Still no trams and people were parked a longgggg way out. 

The price was up and the cup size down at the ice cream place in France. Not shocked. I can’t spell it so won’t even try. Too tired and still cooling off!

A car was on fire on southbound I-75. That’s the third car I’ve seen on fire since we’ve moved here 2.5 years ago. All the traffic was in the other direction today which was nice.

Twas a wonderful Saturday.

Thanks, opted for Trattoria al Forno here on Boardwalk instead.  Charcuterie board and a white pizza, works for me!

The car fire was on southbound I-75 two miles south of exit 350 which is one of the Ocala exits.

The Poly:  The last time I saw her was in late June from the MK.  She looked about the same.  It’s hard to see changes from MK now that the big parts are done if that makes sense.  I am looking forward to seeing how they will dress her up as right now it looks like Orlando Health has put up a new building to deal with the anxiety of the high prices at Disney.

I did notice some new stuff around the building it’s taking a quarter century to build at Epcot.  So tired of Walcot.  I would think they could get the outside stuff done so the walls could come down and then work on the inside, but that would make too much sense I suppose.  It looks like some sort of lighting around a stage perhaps in that area…I’m not 100% sure though.  The monofail probably gives a better view of it.  We did walk to France in the cloud cover yesterday and I didn’t notice the “stuff” in the lagoon so I am hoping that stays the norm since that was one of my biggest dislikes of Trash-monious.  I haven’t been overly impressed with much new that’s come out in recent years as far as shows.  I do hope they found some of the older fireworks creativity for the new show and I wonder if it’s 100 Years specific too since it’s coming out with that celebration.  Time will tell.  I think many agree that the SSE lights are a huge win from the 50th and one of the interesting pieces is the ability to change it.  I know fireworks are much harder to change, but being able to add or subtract for the different seasons would be nice or perhaps have a different show for the seasons like MK does for the parties.  I’m not sure the different parks people even talk to each other because Disney is so large.  I always find it interesting when I wear this one shirt over at Epcot (or the other parks) that I purchased from the vault collection and at the other parks CMs always comment on it.  At MK, they do not.  It’s like the other parks have never seen it before and I know CMs are super busy and rarely get out to the other parks.  I wonder if the fireworks team for Epcot even have viewed HEA or Wishes back in the day.  

It was nice at 6:30 when I walked. That ship has sailed now!!

indy: Has anyone seen the new movie?

Ah yes. Forgot it’s 3 months. That gives me more hope. 

I liked the Jungle Book show before Rivers of Light! 

I am hoping for the best! 

Here's a polarizing statement: I save my bacon fat and use it fry eggs, or sometimes put it in recipes.

I find that if that say that to people who cook in a professional setting they react positively; if I say it to people that cook at home they react negatively. Unless they mention that their grandma used to do that or something.

Now the bacon fat can have a strong flavor and it smokes easily so it's not right for everything. But when I make bacon it's in the oven, and I have learned to control the temperature enough so that the fat, when I pour it out, comes out fairly white (like newspaper maybe) as opposed to the cardboard or dark brown color you would get when frying bacon in a pan. So this means it's not burned already once before I even get around to using it. Then I pour it into a nice glass jar.

Anyways I have found that when frying eggs outside on the Coleman gasoline-fired stove, I can get so much hotter, faster, without hotspots, than I ever could with the electric - and the result is so much better and I can't wait until the kitchen is done and the new gas stove is up and running. I get excited thinking about all the things I've wanted to do over the years that the electric could just never give me enough heat for.

Anyways, back to the bacon fat - I finished my last egg this morning and there was still some grease in the pan, and inspired by something I saw in a cooking video I put a slice of bread right in the pan, to "fry" it instead of running it through the toaster. After that I put a second in and rubbed it all around to clean the pan, then fried that. Waa-woo-wee-wah! So different than toast. Yum