dr.girlfriend's annual Oscar Party thread

[dr.girlfriend]

As many of you know by now, every year we have an Oscar party with food themed to the Best Picture nominees. Ideally they'd be puns on the name ("Corndog Millionaire" for "Slumdog Millionaire," "Up in the Éclair" for "Up in the Air"), but if we need to we've gone outside that to make it something prominently featured in the film (e.g., for There Will Be Blood it was milkshakes).  A full slideshow of previous foods, or at least for as long as I've been altering posters to match, is here:

So, here are the Best Picture nominees for this year.


Best Picture:

"1917”
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”
“Parasite.”

Suggestions are welcome.  There will be a strong emphasis on easy-to-prepare stuff -- we suffered greatly when they went up from 5 Best Picture Nominees!

[ohgillian]

Sign that I've been on the boards too long: I heard about the announcements on my way into work and thought, "Oh! It's time for the Oscar-food theme thread!" LOL

[winecat]

"Once Upon a Lime..." Key Lime Pie

"Marriage Story" bitter greens. I didn't like this movie. It was well done and all.

[mbcdefg]

I’m not at all a movie person, but I heard that they nominees were announced so I came straight here for your annual post!


"1917”
Nineteen Seven-bean Salad

“Ford v Ferrari”
Sword v Ferrari - swordfish
Sword v Havarti - small cubes of Havarti cheese on sword toothpicks


“The Irishman”
The IrishBread (Irish soda bread)
The Irish Flan (flan with Bailey’s flavoring?)

“Jojo Rabbit”
Jojo Rarebit
Dough-Dough Rabbit (use a rabbit cookie cutter to make something from cookie dough or pizza dough)
Low and Slow Rabbit (slow-braised rabbit)

“Joker”
Coke-r (Coca-Cola)
Soak-er (rum- or syrup-soaked cake)

“Little Women”
buy a tiny cookie cutter of a woman and make tiny cookies
Fiddle Women (Fiddle Faddle popcorn)
Vittle Women (whatever food qualifies as “vittles”: culinarylore.com/food-history:vittles-origin/)

“Marriage Story”
Cabbage Story - stuffed cabbage rolls, cabbage egg rolls, or cole slaw
Marriage Dory - John Dory fish, or if you can find candy/cookies with Dory from Finding Nemo: www.amazon.com/Disney-Finding-Dory-Candy-Characters/dp/B01NAYR9K9
Marriage Nori - something in nori seaweed wraps

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”
Once Upon a Thyme - something with thyme seasoning
Once BonBon a Time...
Once a-Naan a Time/Thyme... (would thyme be gross on top of naan?)
Once Upon a Lime - lime drink, lime tart, lime Jell-o, lime candy
Once Upon a Vine - Red Vines candy
Once Upon a Time in Lollywood - lollipops
Once Upon a Lime in Lollywood - lime lollipops


“Parasite.”
Pair-of-bites (two small items on a skewer, like a grape tomato and a mozzarella cube; or watermelon and feta; etc)
Farro-site - farro side dish or salad
Marrow-site - roasted bone marrow (probably don’t want to go to this length but I thought I’d list it anyway)

[winecat]

I found this ebook of cocktails from 1917: euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/1917-Recipes-for-Mixed-Drinks-by-Hugo-R-Ensslin-second-edition/II/

[winecat]

So many good ones! I love Pair-of-bites, mbcdefg!

[bluesecrets]

Sloppy Joe-ker

Irishman-wich (corned beef or guinness beef sliders)

[winecat]

Ford Vs. Carbonari- spaghetti carbonara

[winecat]

Porridge Story- rice pudding for a sweet option or a polenta dish for a savory option.

[winecat]

Hoho Rabbit- You could put sugar rabbit ears on Hohos. (https://www.countrykitchensa.com/shop/occasions/dec-ons-molded-sugar-bunny-ears/42/552/907/652798/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6oX5i_aA5wIVw8DACh0k5wcZEAQYAiABEgKRwPD_BwE)

[winecat]

1917 - 19 cans of tangerine flavored LaCroix

[ESF]

Little Women = Little Debbies and just have a basket of snackes

Joker = Smoker. I feel like there's a lot of things you could do there.

Parasite = Pear-asite. Something with pears. Maybe with blue cheese, since mold is kind of like a parasite.

I like the suggestion above of Once Upon a Thyme...in Hollywood. Pizza sprinkled heavily with thyme would be easy and good. If you wanted to bake., do once a upon a lime, make lime flavored shortbread, and cut it into star shapes for the Hollywood walk of fame.

Marriage Story....no idea. Maybe Italian Wedding Soup or Mexican Wedding cookies?

[wise_rita]

Jan 13, 2020 10:35:51 GMT -5 bluesecrets said:

Sloppy Joe-ker

I was going to say Yolker (soft boiled eggs) but I like this better!

This thread is my favorite part of Oscar season!

ETA: JoJo rarebit (welsh rarebit)

[Poppy]

The Irishcan (Guinness)
Little Ramen (either the soup or salad topped with uncooked ramen)
Gourd v Ferrari (stuffed squash)
Chambord v Campari (cocktails)

[dr.girlfriend]

Here's my favorites so far:

"1917” : 19 Seven-bean salad

“Ford v Ferrari”: Sword vs. Harvarti

“The Irishman”: The Irish Flan (we have a flan pun almost every year!)

“Jojo Rabbit”: Hoho Rabbit (I think I could make cute little rabbits out of sliced Hohos)

“Joker” - Sloppy Joe-ker

“Little Women” - Little Ramen

“Marriage Story” - ETA "Meringue Story" has my vote for this!  Good pun and easy!

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”: Once Upon a time in Challah-wood

“Parasite.” - A Pear Side (? - maybe some pear side dish?)

[notsopicky]

Little Bimimbap

These are hard this year.

[tacokick]

Jojo Potatoes (seasoned potato wedges) are a thing.

[tacokick]

Board Vs Havarti could just be a cheese board

[tacokick]

Meringue Story? Just buy some meringues at Trader Joe’s

[jigsy]

19-7 Bean Salad is killing me. I love it. lol

I thought this year would be tough, but all of these are great suggestions!

[bluesecrets]

Little Lemon wings

[thebulldog]

my fave post of the year!