Meet the Robinsons is kinda like Treasure Planet in that almost everyone who has seen it loves it, but it’s kinda forgotten. I love the movie. I actually think its one of my favorites…at least in the top 15. AND there is a memorable food scene in it when the family has a meatball fight! If you haven’t seen Meet the Robinsons, I suggest to go watch it. If you have seen Meet the Robinsons, go watch it again! It will leave you a happy person. I really wouldn’t mind Disney jumping into the Meet the Robinsons universe again. Even if its not with the same characters. I love the Tomorrowland-esque universe that this movie does way better than the official Tomorrowland movie.
Also, by way of announcement. Next week we’re skipping our normal post to ramp up for our 5 week Ratatouille marathon. But next week, we’re going to be announcing the start of our Patreon. Making all this food gets expensive and to keep going, we would love your support. So get ready for that announcement. There will be some awesome perks for the disneymealers that support us!
Rewatching all these Pixar movies is great. Cars used to be one of my least favorite Pixar movies, but after rewatching it, I decided it was really good. Sadly, its not good for food. As much as you probably want to see me guzzle motor oil, I don’t have a deathwish. So this week is kinda a cop-out. We’re preparing for some huge feasts coming up though. Next week is Meet the Robinsons, then it’s going to be the behemoth of Ratatouille!
Chicken Little is the first fully computer animated film from Disney. It is a pretty fun film, but not great in Disney standards. It is definitely good for a few laughs though. We’ve been in kind of a slump lately. There hasn’t been much good food shown in movies. Chicken Little showed some food, but it was food we’ve already made or common food items. But we have a couple quick and easy recipes for you. Popcorn and orange soda. Perfect for your Chicken Little viewing night.
I also wanted to do a shout out to our friends at Dreams To Become. We had the awesome opportunity to join their blog to do a viewing of Winnie the Pooh. We made our shortbread jam cookies and recorded an awesome commentary to the movie. Check it out! and be sure to support their patreon in order to hear the commentary.
Foods Shown
Corn on the cob
Popcorn
Green gatorade
Donuts
Orange soda
Dog bone
Carrot
Buck Cluck’s Popcorn
When Chicken Little gets hit by the second piece of the sky, his dad is making popcorn and the popcorn explodes all over him.
(Credit: Disney)
I made some popcorn, but not just plain microwave popcorn. I actually made it over the stove! It actually tastes really good. Better than movie theater popcorn.
The Incredibles might be the most fun Pixar movie ever made. It’s always a joy watching it. I want to go save the world right after too. There wasn’t too much food, except for the family’s leftover night. I just wonder how much food they make on a regular night because it seemed like almost a full meatloaf, big bowl of mashed potatoes and steak. A full steak. I’ll give Mrs. Incredible the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they had guests that canceled last minute or something.
I’m sorry to all the hardcore Brother Bear and Home on the Range fans (yes, all three of you), but we’re combining both Brother Bear and Home on the Range. Neither had very much food, and only one of them had makeable food. (Brother Bear had some raw salmon, but you can eat some of the salmon you use for your Monster’s Inc sushi). Nevertheless, we made some really great chili from Home on the Range! This was actually my first time watching Home on the Range. It wasn’t as bad as everyone has put it out to be. But now I have officially seen all of the Walt Disney Studios animated movies! Yay!
This is only briefly shown when Alameda Slim and the Willie Brothers take a herd. Alameda Slim shoots down some chili-ish stuff that is cooking over an open fire.
(Credit: Disney)
We already made Cowboy Beans, so now it’s time for Cowboy Chili!
Just keep swimmin’ just keep swimmin! This week we had the privilege of watching Finding Nemo. One of the greatest Pixar movies of all time. This was only the second movie not to show any food. So we’re making some food that will make you sad after watching the movie.
Foods Shown
None. Fish are friends not food.
Fish and Chips
So…even though fish are friends and not food, we made fish and chips. It’s all thanks to Marlin’s quote at the first of the movie when Nemo goes to school. “They’ve just got to grow up som – THE DROP OFF? THEY’RE GOING TO THE DROP OFF? WHAT ARE YOU, INSANE? WHY DON’T WE FRY THEM UP NOW AND SERVE THEM WITH CHIPS? ”
(Credit: Disney)
So here’s a recipe for fish and chips (beer battered of course, this is Australia).
B.E.N. Makes a mean cheesecake! This movie is the most underrated Disney movie in my opinion. It has good music, an exciting story and great visuals. It makes me want to be a pirate now. So go swab your poop deck and get ready for some alien meals from Treasure Planet. Note: Almost all of the food was truly alien in nature. So we created some suitable alternatives to some of the recipes that were more “down to earth.”
Foods Shown
4 powdered sphereoids
blue yolk sunny side up eggs
jellyworms (maggots)
alponian chowder with extra selaran seed (beef chunks)
bonzabeast stew (tangy and robust-shrimpy things weird veggies, eggs)
weird plum thing
pear thing
cracker thing for morph
Potatoes
Oil and acid drink
Layered chocolate white cheesecake
Alponian Chowder
The first bunch of food is shown at the beginning of the movie at the inn. We didn’t make all the food shown because…well…it doesn’t exist here on earth. So we took some liberties and made the dish that Doctor Doppler ate. Alponian Chowder.
4 medium potatoes (about 2 pounds), cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Instructions
Add all the ingredients into a slow cooker
Cook on low for 8hrs
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Bonzabeast Stew
Here’s another food that was shown. John Silver was cooking this when we first met him. Bonzabeast stew.
(Credit:Disney)
It kinda looks like a shrimpy stew, with an eyeball coming out. At least we got a description by the doctor of the taste. Tangy and Robust. We tried to make a stew that fit that description.
1 package (4-serving size) non-instant vanilla pudding and pie filling mix
2 teaspoons baking powder
Cake Layers
1 box dark chocolate cake mix (and ingredients to make it as shown on back of box)
3 containers cream cheese frosting
Cheesecake
Heat oven to 325°F.
Grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans with shortening or cooking spray. Line bottoms of pans with cooking parchment paper rounds; lightly grease paper.
In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
Beat in cream cheese a little at a time until smooth; scrape down bowl.
Beat in eggs one at a time until well combined.
Add pudding mix and baking powder; beat well until smooth.
Divide batter evenly between pans, about 4 cups per pan.
Smooth top with off-set spatula.
Place pans into a large baking dish and place in oven
Add about 1.5 inches of water into the baking dish (be careful not to get water into the cheesecake)
Bake 50 minutes.
Turn off oven and crack the door. Let the cakes sit for 10 more minutes in the oven.
Cool in pans on cooling racks 10 minutes.
Transfer to freezer and freeze until solid, about 3 hours.
Turn cheesecakes out onto cookie sheet; peel off paper. Store in freezer until ready to use.
Cake
While Cheesecake Layers are freezing, Heat oven to 350°F.
Grease 3 (9-inch) round cake pans with shortening or cooking spray.
In large bowl, prepare box cake as directed
Divide batter evenly among pans. (This is different than directed. Use 3 pans, not 2)
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pans on cooling racks 10 minutes.
Remove cake layers from pans onto cooling racks. Cool completely.
To assemble, place 1 cake layer on serving plate or cake stand. Spread frosting. Place 1 frozen cheesecake layer on top of cake layer; spread frosting. Repeat until all layers are used and frost the entire cake
Refrigerate until cheesecake is well chilled before cutting, about 2 hours.
Store in refrigerator
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Will it Sail you to the Stars?
I was a little disappointed with our Alponian Chowder. It just had a bland taste. But the rest was amazing
I was super excited to do Lilo and Stitch. I love Hawaiian food and assumed that Lilo and Stitch would have lots of Hawaiian food in it. I was wrong. It did have quite a bit of food in it, but no real Hawaiian food. I kinda took some liberties of the less specific foods to Hawaiianize them. Since there was so much food, we’re splitting this up into 2 weeks!
I have a confession to make, while I had always liked Monster’s Inc, it had never been up at the top of the list of my favorite Pixar movies. But after watching it again, I think it bumped up there. Such a good movie with some good and “scary” foods. Lots of the “food” was kinda inedible…for human consumption at least. But the edible food was all great.
Foods Shown
Trash
Fruits and veggies (bilge berries, mangle fruit), green spikey fruit
Sludge Coffee
Harryhausen’s sushi
Spider roll
Carrion Katsu
Howling Hamachi
Eyeballs
Cheerios
Lemon Snow Cone
Lingon Berries
Green Apple
Harryhausen’s Sushi for Googly Bear and Shmoopsie Poo
Mike takes Celia to Harryhausen’s. A sushi bar that serves sushi and eyeballs. Fun fact, Harryhausen’s was named after the late Ray Harryhausen who was a well-known animator and VFX artist.
We actually get a glimpse of the menu when Mike and Sully duck behind it
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Then thanks to Disneyland, we get to see a more complete version of the me
So we made a couple of the sushi dishes on the menu.
Getting the rice right is probably the most important part of making sushi, the rest is the combination of ingredients.
On the lower third, add the rest of the ingredients (all sliced thinly)
Roll the sushi
Cut with a sharp sharp knife
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Harryhausen’s Eyeballs
Also at Harryhausens, there are a lot of eyeballs.
(credit: Disney)
I’m not quite sure where I can get human looking eyeballs like that to eat without going completely Hannibal, so I made one instead with fresh mozzarella and olives.