{"id":13139,"date":"2014-02-14T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:35:26","slug":"repost-for-valentines-day-red-velvet-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13139","title":{"rendered":"Repost &#8211; for Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; Red Velvet Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>we didn&#8217;t even begin to consider going back to Kona Cafe for a second try at these!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>from Valentine&#8217;s 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nick recently saw an announcement online that Kona Cafe was going to be offering a Breakfast Special (and you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day) AND it was a pancake special. So we were ready to head to the Polynesian Resort and get some Red Velvet Pancakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_7414\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=7414\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PANCAKES!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kona-Cafe-Breakfast-Red-Velvet-Pancakes-February-2013-1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>PANCAKES!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Did you know that February 12, 2013 is Pancake Day?<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shrove_Tuesday\" target=\"_blank\">Shrove Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;shrove&#8221; comes from an old English term &#8220;shrive&#8221; meaning to confess &#8211; as February 12, 2013 is the day before Lent begins (yes, this also means that it&#8217;s Mardi Gras a.k.a. Fat Tuesday), it&#8217;s the day that you customarily go and confess and get absolutions). Okay, enough with the traditional and religious stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re fairly certain that the Red Velvet Pancakes being offered during the month of February have more to do with Valentine&#8217;s Day than with Pancake Day, it seems appropriate to give you a review of those pancakes TODAY!<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_7415\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=7415\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red Velvet Pancakes with a side of bacon (2 slices)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kona-Cafe-Breakfast-Red-Velvet-Pancakes-February-2013-2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Red Velvet Pancakes with a side of bacon (2 slices)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nick ordered the pancakes, while Nora ordered the Samoan (later in the post). Nick LOVES pancakes, and we&#8217;ve had the Macadamia Pineapple Pancakes a few times (and enjoyed them). Unfortunately, Nick didn&#8217;t love these pancakes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pancakes &#8211;\u00a0dry, overdone, and too much cocoa (probably what contributed to their dryness and toughness, an imbalance in the dry and wet ingredients)<\/li>\n<li>The cream cheese topping &#8211; barely enough for one pancake, much less 3; didn&#8217;t taste of cream cheese, it was just sweet and cinnamony; not a great accompaniment on multiple levels<\/li>\n<li>The bacon &#8211; well, it&#8217;s slightly better than Walt Disney World food court bacon, but why only 2 slices?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_7416\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=7416\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Closer view - these looked overdone to our tastes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kona-Cafe-Breakfast-Red-Velvet-Pancakes-February-2013-3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Closer view &#8211; these were overdone, dry, and tough<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nora decided to go for the Samoan &#8211; described as &#8220;Poached Eggs with Hollandaise served over Smoked Pulled Pork Hash&#8221;&#8230; sounded good&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_7417\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=7417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Samoan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kona-Cafe-Breakfast-Red-Velvet-Pancakes-February-2013-4.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>The Samoan<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Details, from the top&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rocket salad &#8211; a nice addition to a heavier breakfast, first time we saw this was at Kouzzina; not overdressed, this gets a thumbs-up<\/li>\n<li>Hollandaise sauce &#8211; sour, not lemony; thumbs down<\/li>\n<li>Poached eggs &#8211; poached well, slightly underdone (runny whites); too bad they included the foamy bits of eggwhite (clearly visible in the photos), this was yuck; thumbs neither up or down<\/li>\n<li>Smoked pulled pork hash &#8211; didn&#8217;t taste like any pork we&#8217;ve ever eaten (and we&#8217;ve eaten a lot of smoked pulled pork!), in fact, it simply didn&#8217;t taste like pork at all; the potatoes were very vinegary (yuck); thumbs down<\/li>\n<li>English muffin &#8211; chunked up instead of whole, made eating this easier; thumbs up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eating it all together did little to improve this dish, unlikely to order it again.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_7418\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=7418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Close view\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kona-Cafe-Breakfast-Red-Velvet-Pancakes-February-2013-5.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Close view (can really see the foamy egg whites)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overall, this is the worst breakfast we&#8217;ve had a Disney World in a while; the best thing was a full pot of coffee for each of us (even though the table was very small and crowded). Disappointing&#8230; Sigh. Now we REALLY want to go back to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5958&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\">The Wave<\/a>\u00a0and to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=3786&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\">Kouzzina<\/a>\u00a0for breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we didn&#8217;t even begin to consider going back to Kona Cafe for a second try at these!!<\/p>\n<p>from Valentine&#8217;s 2013<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Nick recently saw an announcement online that Kona Cafe was going to be offering a Breakfast Special (and you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day) AND it was a pancake <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=13139\">Repost &#8211; for Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; Red Velvet Pancakes<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[242,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-wdw-resorts-fd","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}