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). Here’s the menu for Sunday’s Oscar Dinner.
PRE-DINNER TEA
Tea cakes from Philomena. The nuns always generously ply Philomena (Judi Dench) and Martin (Steve Coogan) with tea cakes while trying to bamboozle them.
STARTER
Steakhouse salad from Dallas Buyers Club. Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey) and Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner) dine at a steakhouse and presumably started with a salad before their slabs of grilled beast.
DINNER
Chicken Suqaar with Chapatti (Somali take-out from Jubba Restaurant in San Jose) for Captain Phillips. (And khat leaves are illegal in the US – so no khat chewing before dinner.)
Chicken Piccata from American Hustle. Mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner) rhapsodizes about the chicken piccata in the NYC restaurant.
Sliced white bread for Nebraska. My parents were from Nebraska, so this choice comes from personal experience.
DESSERT
Blueberries for 12 Years a Slave. Solomon made ink from blueberries to write a plea for rescue.
Astronaut Ice Cream for Gravity. Way cooler than Tang.
BEVERAGES
Champagne from The Wolf of Wall Street. There’s a lot of champagne consumed in this movie, and I don’t have any Quaaludes.
Cocktail from Her. Don’t know what Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix)and Blind Date (Olivia Wilde) were drinking on their ill-fated soiree, but I’m gonna make myself a Manhattan with Carpano Antica.
Enjoy!
The Wife didn’t have a say in the menu this year. There will be veggies of some kind, trust me. And, no Champagne and Cocktails for me!!!