Kristen Hoetzel: Next Disney Food Network Star

Ah, Sunday morning, when one's thoughts turn to cooking Disney food and baking Disney treats. I said one's thoughts; my thoughts turn to eating Disney food and Disney treats, but there's a big chasm between the desire and the dish.

Filling that chasm is Kristen Hoetzel and her site, CookingWithMickey. Kristen won't come to my home and cook - and it'd be spooky for me to ask - but she can come into my home through a series of videos in which she teaches viewers how to cook various Disney recipes, including the one I'd like to attempt today: Bread Pudding from Grand Floridian's 1900 Park Fare buffet.

The video is over six minutes long and shows Kristen in a tight shot explaining step-by-step how to prepare the dish. Kristen is a natural on camera, wastes no time, and makes no eye-rolling happy talk. In other words, she's better than many of the contestants on the Next Food Network Star. (Her cool Fantasia shirt doesn't hurt, either.)

Kristen does more than cooking videos. Her site includes current Disney dining news, recipes, and generic cooking tips. Kristen also keeps busy as a co-host of Sorceror Radio and she reviews both Disney World and Disneyland restaurants on the Character Breakfast podcast.

It makes you wonder how she finds time to cook with Mickey.

I'd still love a dish of 1900 Park Fare Bread Pudding, but I'm known as the Imaginative Chef for a reason: I like to imagine myself in the kitchen cooking perfect food. Whenever I become the Reality Chef, well, it's not pretty. Maybe I'll just watch Kristen cook it again.