Leche Flan and Former Disneyland Attractions (yesterland)

ok, for those of us raised in Filipino American households, let's face it... the best'est dessert in the whole wide world when we were kids was, what else... Leche Flan!!! haha, when they used to take us to those Filipino weddings, i remember make'n a run to the buffet table in the hopes that there'd be platters of the stuff just ready for the taking (and remember getting scolded, often, to stop bogart'ing the stuff)... Anyway, this one's my wife's recipe...


Ingredients

7 Egg Yokes

1 Can Evaporated Milk

1 Can Condensed Milk

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

2 Tablespoons Sugar


Pans: (you usually can find these at those Asian Grocery Stores)

Double Boiler

Oval Leche Flan Pans


Preparation:

Mix egg yokes, evaporated milk, condensed milk and vanilla extract in bowl

Heat 2 tablespoons sugar in oval leche flan pan, until lightly carmelized, coating the bottom & sides of pan

Pour egg mixture in leche flan pan

Boil water in double boiler until steam appears

Put leche flan pan in double boiler

Cover, lower heat & steam for 15 to 30 minutes

After 15 mins, insert toothpic and see if it comes out clean, if not check again every 5 mins

That's it! Enjoy!

Former Disneyland Attractions

I actually have a memory of Disneyland from when I was about 2 years old... I remember clinging to my mom, scared $#|+|_3$$, as they put us in a cage in some type of cave... haha, it was the skyway to tomorrowland (1956–1994) or... to fantasyland, not really sure which way we were going...


Do you know the zip-a-dee-doo-dah animatronic characters that are a part of Splash Mountain? They were re-purposed from a show called America Sings (1974–1988), that used to be where innoventions currently is (in tomorrowland). The building used to be called the Carousel Theatre, where the audience would rotate around the center of the building, when it was ready to view the next skit:


Prior to America Sings, the Carousel Theater held General Electric’s Carousel of Progress (1967–1973) which, btw, is still a live attraction in WDW:


Another funky attraction that my wife & I road when we were teens, was the Mike Fink keel boats (1956–1994 and 1996–1997). I was thinking, this is kinda stupid... My wife remembers having to sit with your knees bumping into the folks on the other side of the boat. The boat operator (aka cast member) kept making fun of everyone and everything around the rivers of america:


The country bear jamboree (1972–1986) was an "E Ticket" attraction (meaning it was one of the good ones) and lots of folks were wondering why disneyland decided to retire it. oh well... haha... i have an MP3 of the show that i listen to when i'm jogging:


One ride that folks usually got on just to kick back and take a little rest was the people movers (1967–1995), the lines never seemed to be long. WDW just re-opened that attraction but it looks a tad different than the original retired attraction:


here's what the original attraction looked like:


what replaced the People Movers, but has also been retired, is the rocket rods (1998–2000):


One of the formerly retired attractions was Michael Jackson's Captain EO (1986–1997, 2010-present), but it's back now, to pay tribute to him after he passed away:


when it was retired, it was replaced with honey i shrunk the audience (1998–2010), which is now retired because of Captain EO coming back (haha, confusing):


another one i'd like to comment on is the adventure through inner space (1967–1985), which was replaced by star tours. we took my wife's niece on this when she was a toddler and we convinced her that the ride really really shrunk you when your omnimover traveled through the eye of the microscope:


To see a full list of other attractions that have been retired, click here... another good reference is http://www.yesterland.com.

oh... and this has nothing to do with flan or rides but... i've never seen this before... (haha... random)