Every year, we watch the Oscars while enjoying a meal inspired by the Best Picture nominees. For example, we had sushi for Lost in Translation, cowboy campfire beans for Brokeback Mountain and Grandma Ethel’s Brisket for A Serious Man – you get the idea. You can see our past Oscar Dinners on this page (including our Severed Hands Ice Sculpture in 2011 for 127 Hours and Winter’s Bone).
This year The Wife did the heavy lifting in organizing our feast.
STARTERS
Hummus for Argo and Zero Dark Thirty – as you will see, it’s a big year for Middle Eastern food at the Oscar Diner.
Philly Cream Cheese Cocktail Sauce Dip for Silver Linings Playbook – a perfect accompaniment to an Eagles game.
Crackers from Life of Pi (not many food choices on that lifeboat).
Baguette from Amour and Les Miserables (I did NOT steal the bread, Javert).
The Wife vetoed the peach yogurt from Amour.
DINNER
Kabob Koubideh for Argo and Zero Dark Thirty.
Roast Chicken from Beasts of the Southern Wild (we could have done crab, too, but Quvenzhané Wallis won’t be here to rip them up for us).
Khoresh Ghormeh (a Persian veggie stew) for Argo.
DESSERT
Mary Todd Lincoln’s Almond Cake for Lincoln. Understanding the political junkie that I am, my daughter gave me the Capitol Hill Cookbook and this is an authentic recipe from the Lincoln family.
BEVERAGES
Whiskey from Django Unchained (from the bar scene with Jamie Foxx and Franco Nero).
Vodka (Jennifer Lawrence ordered it at the bar) from Silver Linings Playbook.
Water from Life of Pi (again – not many choices in that lifeboat).
Enjoy!