Pirates of the Caribbean dinner

May 30th, 2011 by justJENN

The kids are finally at an age where they can enjoy movies – the stories, the visuals, especially themed movies – they’re really getting into it. This week was the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides.

I knew I wanted the kids to fully experience it so we had ‘dinner and a movie’ night to watch the previous Pirates. Luckily they loved the movies (and weren’t scared) and mostly because of our family love of Disney they were ready for the full experience. It’s a good thing too because I got VIP tickets to see the new Pirates at the El Capitan in Hollywood (recap, here).

To go along with our Pirates celebration I made a Pirates themed dinner of course!

We talked about what pirates eat on the ship: “Bread! Chicken! There’s not room for anything else!” Hm. Ok. And if you remember green apples are BIG part of the movies as well. I also made a special pirate-y dessert.

Salt + Pepper chicken drumsticks (recipe, here)
Garlic Bread
Green Apples
Cap’n Crunch Treasure Treats (recipe, here)
Milk

The Baby wanted RUM “like the pirates drink.” Yeah, nice try 5 year old, it’s milk or nothing. We enjoyed our pirates dinner and re-watched the old movies – the Baby in full pirate regalia, of course.