Another week has gone by, another movie has been watched, and another meal made. I was amazed at the sort of things we got to try this week from watching Alice in Wonderland. Oysters, mushrooms, sugar cookies, and cake. Don't forget the tea we drink at the Mad Hatter's unbirthday party. This week threw me into a sugar overload. I can't even look at the stuff without feeling like I've gained 10 pounds!

So let's start at the beginning. Alice in Wonderland is a story of a girl named Alice, who falls asleep during a lesson and goes into her imaginative wonderland. She follows a white rabbit down a hole and encounters all sorts of strange things right away. These things include anti-gravity, talking doors, growing and shrinking with a bite of food, singing animals, and that's just the beginning! In her journey through wonderland she meets the tweedle twins who tell her a story of the Walrus and the Carpenter. She continues and sings with flowers, talks to a caterpillar, has an unbirthday tea party with the mad hatter, talks with a Cheshire cat, paints roses, plays croquet with a queen… Well you get the idea. It's an adventure for all. The food was an adventure, too.

The first thing to come up on our list was a drink that tasted of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, and roast turkey. I wouldn't recommend mixing that all together. We did, however, stack the flavors in a tube and it turned out okay. The next thing to come up was probably the most fun for me. Oysters on the half shell. When tweedle dee and tweedle dum tell Alice the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter, the two of them walk along a beach, see some oysters in the water and deceive them into coming on land to be eaten. The oyster's curiosity gets the best of them and they follow Mr. Walrus onto land, into the restaurant that the carpenter had just built. While the carpenter is busy making mignonette sauce and bread, the walrus eats all of the oysters. A fight and a chase ensue between the two and the story ends.

We didn't know the sauce being made was mignonette, but a quick google search of some of the ingredients being sung about by the carpenter gave us our answer. It's a spicy, vinegar based sauce that is probably meant to drown out the flavor of the oyster. If you're a fan of raw oysters, spoon a little less into the cup. I had never before tried to open an oyster, but the process was actually kind of fun. I suppose there's a sort of satisfaction that comes with really working for your food. So, for the newbies out there like me, here's what you do: Scrub the oysters with a stiff brush to get the dirt off. Hold the oyster cup side down (the other side of the shell is flat), with the hinge toward you, in a folded up towel. The towel is to protect your hand. The next step is to insert a dull butter knife into the hinge as far as it will go, and with a twisting motion pry open the shell. Do not jab the knife into the shell, as you could break it. Once the shell is open, detach the muscle from it, but leave it in the cup. Spoon your sauce on top and slurp. We had to count to three and do it together because I'm a chicken.

Buying oysters at the store was a new experience, too. The butcher at my local grocery was very kind and offered some helpful advice as I was picking out my oysters. For the rest of our adventure, please check out our blog disneymeals.wordpress.com. We've enjoyed ourselves this far, and our next adventure will be a flight into Neverland where Peter, Tink, Wendy, and the boys will show us what they like to eat.