Bread Pudding ~ A Weakness of Mine

the Bread Pudding at the 'Ohana

in the Polynesian Resort

heaven in the form of bread, custard,

crisp sides, and cream

I love bread pudding,

other than a place in Jackson MS

that uses white chocolate,

this, at the Ohana,

has to be the best

I've.EverEverEver.Had.

Go to DisneyWorld, try it. Fall in love.

If you don't like bread pudding,

it will make you a believer.

I have my doubts that this recipe

will make it taste exactly as I dream.

But one can hope. Here it is ~

'OHANA BREAD PUDDING

Polynesian Resort

Ingredients

5 eggs

3 cups whole milk

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 1/2 cup sugar

8 cups french or 'Ohana breakfast bread

Directions

1. In bowl mix eggs, milk , salt, sugar and nutmeg. Set aside.

2. Cut bread in medium pieces, place on cookie sheet pan put in 350 degree oven.

3. Bake bread until lightly toasted, about 15 minutes. Remove bread and place in egg and milk mixture.

4. Place mixture in a greased 10-inch cake pan and bake at 325 degree for 1 hour.

5. Let stand 5 minutes, serve hot with ice cream.

BANANA FOSTER SAUCE
4 oz sugar
4 oz brown sugar
4 oz corn syrup
4 oz unsalted butter
1cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1cup banana slices

Directions

1. Combine sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, butter and half of heavy cream in a large pan. Bring to a boil and slowly add remaining heavy cream keeping mixture at a steady boil.

2. Candy will brown slightly; cook 3 minutes until candy forms into a firm ball in cold water. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Add sliced bananas. Serve warm.

If YOU have a recipe that you think tastes more like the 'Ohana, please please, leave me the recipe!!

Our Home While Away

Yesterday, I showed you the inside of our rooms at Bay Lake in DisneyWorld. Today I want to share more of the outdoors with you. I forgot my camera the two times we went to the pool areas but take my word for it, it's just as awesome as the rest of the grounds!

Coming over on the catwalk from The Contemporary ~ there was a Disney animated movie EACH night on a huge screen with chairs scattered about on the grounds (our crew stayed too busy in the parks to watch an evening movie, though) ~ you can see the water view we had of Bay Lake. There were always boats delivering passengers to various docks around the lake. 

John, on the catwalk ~ 

This is the front of our condo building and on the right you see the walkway that connected us to The Contemporary.  The Contemporary is where we walked over to catch the monorail. Magic Kingdom Express was the first stop; ours was always the last stop ~ weather was hot, hot, hot! ~ it appears that the walkway was covered; it wasn't, only the top and these few wall slabs. 

Looking across the beach area to The Contemporary ~ there were marshmallow and S'mores each night on the circular firepit you see on the beach ~ the wind was normally quite breezy here at night and we never saw very many gathered for this activity. 

Looking toward The Contemporary, seeing the walkway, and the gorgeous landscaping around the beach area and lake. This walkway wandered on around to the back of our building and took you past the pools and outdoors cafe ~

We saw this view of Cinderella's Castle and Space Mountain each time we walked over to The Contemporary. We never tired of the site and often stopped just to gaze. On the other side was a beautiful view of the lake and the boats traveling to the various docks in the parks. 

You have to check into The Contemporary (they do not give you the option of taking your own bags up), so once we got our keys we went on up to check out where we'd be living the next five nights and six days. You can tell how nice it was to get off the road, out of the car, and sit somewhere cool and comfy.

Tomorrow ~ I'll share our first day!

Rocking DisneyWorld!

We went to DisneyWorld!

With these special ones!

And let me tell you, they rocked it.

First we checked into the Bay Lake Resort @ The Contemporary, which was beside a marina and had the neatest pool areas! Rooms were spacious and we all had plenty of room to stretch out and we all slept soundly. I really think five of them slept so hard because they rocked DisneyWorld for four and a half days! 

We had the king size with an awesome bathroom. There were, what I call farm doors, on many of the openings and the two babies got a kick out of pulling them back and forth. There were also panels to pull between the bedroom and bathing area, along with a private balcony overlooking the lake and the marina. Each night at 10 we were able to view an electrical musical show of Sea Creatures. Neat! 

The second bedroom also had a private balcony. Let me put a plug in here for WDW beds. They are Sealy Posturepedic mattress and they slept great. I thought ours had a pillow top, but it didn't. We have decided our next bed will be a king size just like the one we slept on during this vacation. We all slept like babies. 

The photos are blurry but this pool was so neat. Spa, really really neat slide, no entry pool that never got deeper than 5 feet in the very middle, free life jackets for the little ones and a smaller slide for the little babes. Our two grandbabies wanted to go again and again and again. In fact, they took a swim between brunch and boarding their flight back to Mississippi. And I bet they slept all the way home.

First day ~ Magic Kingdom!

Here's three of the Green's on the

It's a Small World ride.

Everyone loves that one. 

Alaina got to be a princess,

and she got to meet all the ones she loves.

Here are two of them. 

The next morning,

her hair was still in place, and she'd changed dressed and shoes. Sneakers are much better walking around acres of parks than ballet slippers. In fact, that hair stayed in place for almost three whole days, only coming down to go into the pool.

Sometimes she walked.

Sometimes Daddy helped out.

I love the colorful backgrounds!!

and the models {grin font} 

Leslie claims The Animal Kingdom was her favorite. You can tell by 'laina's look she'd had enough of the picture taking sessions. But it's a great photo of Leslie!

Saturday night, Stacey and Brett went out to celebrate an upcoming wedding anniversary. We, along with Leslie, took the babies to the pools. Afterwards, they redressed and hit the Magic Kingdom again! Did you know the parks stay open until midnight, and sometimes longer than that?

The morning we left, there was brunch with Mickey,

and Minnie, and lots of other Disney Characters.

Just a perfect ending. What an awesome time.

PS ~ I have a few photos from my camera and when I dig out the camera, I'll post them in an update to this post. There's still stuff to unpack, you know how that goes!

Guess Where We're Going?!

UPDATE: Oops, this is Disney Hong Kong!

Bahaha ~ we are NOT going there!

Guess who will be with us when we visit Disney World?!

The ORLANDO site!

these two precious daughters,

AND,

the rest of Stacey's family! We are so excited to be sharing this fabulous place, this enchanted spot,

with five of our very favorite people!  I've already begun packing!! We will be there almost a whole week, and although we don't plan to keep up with the younger set each day, we will stay in touch via cell phones

and enjoy some yummy meals and Alaina's visit to Cinderella's Castle together.  John and I truly enjoy our time during vacations with our daughters.  We're still talking about our trip to G'burg with Jenny's family and Leslie.  Now we'll have another memorable vacation to rehash and smile over. Thank you, God, for the ability to do this and for such precious loved ones that delight our hearts and worship at Your feet.