Chef Art Smith's Homecoming

[sherryberry 35]

Today we tried the Homecoming restaurant at Disney Springs. There were a few different things we wanted to try so we just split everything. We ordered three appetizers and were going to try a couple of desserts, but had to cut it back to one dessert to share. We couldn't finish everything but I had to try a dessert from there.

We had the Church Lady Deviled Eggs. They were topped with bacon. I love deviled eggs and these were good, but they don't really seem much better than what we make at home. So, I probably wouldn't order these again. I would eat them again if someone in our party wanted to order them.

We also ordered the bunch of puppies. They come with pimento cheese and jalapeño jelly.

I really liked these. The hushpuppies have pimentos in them. The way I ate them was to split them open and then spread some pimento cheese on and then the jalapeño jelly on top of that.

And the last appetizer we had was the Thigh High Chicken Biscuits. We thought this might be a good way to get a taste of the fried chicken and the biscuits. They also drizzle honey on the chicken and top it with a bread and butter pickle. This was so yummy. This was actually the only item that we were able to finish today.

And finally, to end the meal - we had banana pudding for dessert. This was not on the dessert menu. I remembered Emeril eating this on his show and banana pudding is my death-row dessert - I HAD to try it! We were going to try the hummingbird cake also, but knew there was no way we could make a dent on both desserts. It took a while to get the pudding to our table. My guess is that they assemble them as they're ordered. This thing was way bigger than I expected. Which is good, because it's not cheap! The dessert was very, very rich - a little richer than I like. The pudding was very runny and I really had to dig for bananas. It was topped with a marshmallow cream that was toasted on top. It wasn't bad, just not what I'm used to in a banana pudding.