Please accept this rose…

Originally posted Spring 2020

“Tale as old as time…tune as old as song…” Sorry, couldn’t help myself. If you grew up in the 90’s and are even the tiniest Disney fan- you know that this rose is from “Beauty and the Beast”!

In Disney World you can visit the Beast’s castle by eating at Be Our Guest restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. That’s just what we did for our sixth evening of our Disney staycation.

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On our menu for the evening:

• Croque-monsieur
• Tomato bisque
• Lefou’s Brew
• The Grey Stuff

The first thing I made was actually dessert! We used sugar cookies as the base to our Grey Stuff. In case you aren’t familiar, the grey stuff is a cookie and cream flavored mousse. I tend to do halfway-homemade cooking and went for a cookie mix. I then used this recipe for the grey stuff. I went with another shortcut and used semi-thawed Cool Whip in the recipe instead of homemade whipped cream.

As for our croque-monsieurs, I made simple hot ham and cheese sandwiches. To make it that much faster I used an electric griddle like this:

I then added honey mustard and tomato slices to our sandwiches, I learned this in college and never went back.

Next up- tomato bisque…otherwise known as Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Life is hard enough, go for the canned soup.

Last but not least I wanted to make Lefou’s Brew. In the Magic Kingdom this is a complicated slushy drink with marshmallow foam and several other ingredients. Once again- mama doesn’t have time for that- so I went with apple juice and ice in a blender! Would’ve been fantastic too if I had known how to use our new blender. I didn’t set up the seal correctly, apple juice leaked e v e r y w h e r e. It even managed to drip into the water hook-up for the dishwasher and into our basement! Fun times.

Ambiance

Let’s face it, this evening was less about food quality and more about the ambiance of the “restaurant”. I used a fancy (read: cloth) tablecloth and cloth napkins. I found this awesome enchanted rose centerpiece on Amazon too.

I then did something unheard of and pulled out the wedding china. I have never once used it in the 12 years we’ve owned it. Isn’t it beautiful???

I still love it all this time later and it remained in tact after this meal, so maybe I’ll use it again in another 12 years.

As one final step I decided to learn to fold our napkins like they do in the actual restaurant- into the shape of a rose. Follow along below to learn how, it’s so simple!

1. Fold napkin into a triangle

2) Starting at the widest end, roll tightly 3/4 of the way down

3) Roll the rolled portion onto itself like a cinnamon roll. Stop once you get passed the triangle.

4) With the cinnamon roll as a base, stand the napkin upright.

5) Tuck the tail into cinnamon roll so it stays together. I drew this fantastic graphic to try and show you where to tuck the tail.

6) The point is now actually two points. Separate them by pulling apart and down. Tuck them around the cinnamon roll and turn it over- it should now look like a rose with two leaves on either side!

Six theme nights down…one left and I am exhausted from this past week.

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