I was inspired by Kristine Fraser and decided I would also try making Disney World foods at home. Which is awesome because Disney foods but even more awesome because I rarely cook anymore…(I’m skipping the Dole Whip from her list, because that’s not an official recipe, I don’t care what anyone says. Dole Whip is vegan and that recipe isn’t vegan. Also, we have the official Dole Pineapple Frozen Yogurt mix which DOES make more realistic Dole Whip anyway.)
It’s funny. I thought making the O’hana noodles would be pretty easy and the recipe most likely to succeed. Let me just say right now that I was wrong. Very wrong.
First, I had to halve the recipe because I was much lower on rice vinegar than I realized – which is FINE because there’s no way we needed that many noodles around here. Sheesh. Next, I should have used about twice as many vegetables as halving the recipe called for. Last but not least, I should have used a LOT less brown sugar. Those noodles were sweet. Like dessert noodles, if dessert noodles were a thing. Last, but not least, I would probably not use Ramen noodles and would use soba noodles or even spaghetti. The Ramen noodles got sticky – partly because my Parker House Rolls took their slow ass time baking so the noodles had to sit in the pan longer than ideal.
Go here to see the recipe and a photo of Kristine’s. And here are a couple of photos of mine. The first, while it was still in progress – looked decent. The second, when I was ready to plate it. That bright color should indicate to you that there’s a LOT of brown sugar happening. And there was.
TW and I made a lot of jokes about it but we ate it. I added a bunch of Rooster Sauce to it and it was … edible. Oddly enough, while we were eating, TW said “Don’t throw the leftovers away, I’ll eat them tomorrow.” Then she proceeded to have a small second helping AND she did eat the leftovers. She’s weird.