Every year, The Movie Gourmet watches the Oscars while enjoying a meal inspired by the Best Picture nominees. You can read more at Oscar Dinner.
Here is my menu for Oscar Dinner 2012.
COCKTAILS AND STARTERS
First, The Artist inspired both strawberries (George Valentin was breakfasting on strawberries while avoiding his wife’s glare) and whiskey (George later downs more than his share).
From Moneyball, we have a ballpark hot dog.
DINNER
Fried chicken from The Help and turnips (remember the ruined crop?) from War Horse. This also kinda fits with the 50s meat-and-potatoes fare that Jessica Chastain was serving up to Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life.
When George Clooney and Shailene Woodley show up at the beach bungalow in The Descendants, wine is offered. And we have selected a French wine, a Bordeaux that Michael Sheen in Midnight in Paris can continue to prattle on about.
DESSERT
From Hugo, we have one of the stolen croissants he subsisted upon (although we bought our croissant) served with some of the jam made by the Niels Arestrup character in War Horse.
We are bypassing the most obvious choice on the movie menu – Minnie’s chocolate pie from The Help. Instead, The Wife is making a Big Apple pie for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.