2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Australia Marketplace – Lamb Chop

We had eaten lamb chops earlier in the Festival, we wanted to have one with Harry (from Newcastle, England)… And we did, but we didn’t follow our intentions fully… we had meant to ask for the lamb chops “naked” (i.e. without sauce or potato crunchies)…

Harry & his lamb chop

Now, the day

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Culinary Demonstration with Michael Gonsalves from Golden Oak’s Summerhouse

Artisanal Hand Made Charcuterie and Cheese Board

Duck Pastrami, Bison Sausage, and Cow Girl Creamery Cheese with Artisanal Mustard and Craisin® Preserves

paired with

Iron Horse Estate Pinot Noir

David Munksgard & Pam Smith

It’s David from Iron Horse Vineyards (to avoid being redundant, here’s

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Simple dinner in bluezoo lounge on a somewhat quiet Friday evening

I’ll cut right to the chase…

The other Friday night (a week after the big do with a large group wandering around Epcot Food & Wine Festival), Nick and I made our way over to bluezoo to say “hello” to everyone and to enjoy a light dinner sitting in the lounge. I was also really

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Scotland Marketplace – Salmon, Vegetarian Haggis, & Innis & Gunn

The main offerings from this booth were a pleasant surprise!

We knew about Innis & Gunn beer (thanks to the adult candy store… Total Wine & More); we’ve eaten salmon on a regular basis for YEARS, and we had haggis for breakfast every single morning when we went to Scotland this past summer… So… We

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Charcuterie board at bluezoo (and experimenting with Boulevardier formula)

The day before the meet-up for cocktails in the bluezoo lounge, we went over to nail down Nick’s Boulevardier cocktail. He’s been getting it since back last spring, but there was a lot of variability (that was due to the pursuit of the perfect Boulevardier) and the taste just wasn’t what he wanted.

On the

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Ireland Marketplace – Lobster and Seafood Fisherman’s Pie & Guiness® Draught

We were bound and determined to have the Fisherman’s Pie from the Ireland Marketplace this year… we were just waiting and hoping for a cooler evening to have it (you know, somehow fisherman’s pie doesn’t sound appetizing in the blazing Florida heat)…

We’ve had this numerous times over the last 12 years, sometimes we’ve been

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Culinary Demonstration – lobster “yes”, what we expected “no”

Well, this was supposed to be a lobster dish with Ben Sergeant… it wasn’t. It was a lobster dish with a Disney chef (we were trying to avoid the Disney chefs this year, their demos just aren’t as good – we don’t consider Kevin Dundon to be a Disney chef, he’s Ireland’s Chef!)…

Pam Smith

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Lunch at Raglan Road on a Monday Afternoon

We recently had what I think of as our “big huge group for Food & Wine weekend!” Thankfully, the weekend ended and none were worse for wear…

On Monday, the six remaining (Big Al, Judy, Harry, Sandy, Nick and I) went to Raglan Road for lunch. There were a few items on the menu that

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Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios – First 2013 visit

The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is amazing to see in person. Watch all the videos and look at all the photos you want, nothing compares to seeing these lights in person. There are many things that are better in video or photos: concerts, natural wonders and others immediately come

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Florida Local Marketplace – Florida Shrimp Cerviche & Florida Cracker Belgian-style White Ale

Part of our intent in going over to the Epcot Food & Wine Festival on a Sunday evening was to see Christopher Cross Eat to the Beat Concert – we stopped for adult beverages at Hawaii as we were walking in (most of the beer went into the trash can) and headed up toward Japan

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