a little piece of disney

As my darling beautifully & successfully wrapped another semester at school on his journey to become Dr. Charming, I wanted to do something special for him on his last night after finals. With Christmas and his birthday this month and our budget streeeeeetttttccchhhheeedddd to its max, a big lavish gift was out (even though he deserves it all, acing Anatomy Physiology isn't easy folks...) I decided to cook him a delicious meal!

He is AMAZING when it comes to supporting my new lifestyle. I cook up paleo, grain free, gluten free, dairy free concoctions daily for breakfast and dinner when we are able to eat together. And he eats it, cooks it for me and with me, and seems to enjoy it! But tonight was just about him so I wanted to make him a favorite.

Back when I noticed I was starting to get pretty sick, we were in Disney for our honeymoon. (I spent the whole weekend in bed sick with a fever, flu and my body was so inflamed I could barely eat food, so a redo is on the list of to-do's.) We went to eat at the restaurant outside of Pirates of the Caribbean and Mr. Charming ordered his favorite dish in all of the lands, the Monte Cristo sandwich. 

Note: This is NOT gluten free, NOT dairy free, and NOT sugar free. This is probably the only time you will see this on my blog, and I have NOT included the recipe, because all of my recipes are guaranteed to be gluten and dairy free, but like I said, it wasn't about me tonight. So, I put the sandwhich in my memory bank and knew that one day I would make this for my new husband. Well, after a journey of everything I eliminated these past two years we've been married, it never crossed my mind to cook something like this in my "safe" kitchen, until now.  

I went to the store and picked up things I hadn't bought in years. Seriously, shopping for cheese felt so foreign to me. I made sure to get the highest quality ingredients, since I'm not crazy about my family consuming these things either, but I knew it would mean so much if I could bring a part of Disney into our home, and voila! My homemade Monte Cristo just for my own fairy tale prince come true!