India Represent!
(Note: this event actually took place on February 22, 2009)
This year's Oscars was possibly the most triumphant yet. I had seen about 6 of the nominated movies and felt very strongly about one of the contenders specifically. Slumdog Millionnaire (SM) mania has swept the nation -- and the world -- in the past few months. The story of the underdog making his way into wealth and simultaneously finding love is a fairytale indeed, especially during these harsh times. And, of course, it made making the themed dinners I throw for the Oscars that much more fun since SM takes place in Bombay and what better food to have in Bombay than chaat??
The Nominees:
SLUMDOG MILLIONNAIRE: BHEL PURI (I can't take credit for this: Mom had prepped all the ingredients, brought them, and her own mixing bowl over, as well as newspaper in order to make genuine cones to eat the chaat from.
FROST NIXON: This one was a toughie, since the entire movie doesn't mention or eat a particular food at all. The obvious thing might have been to serve something with FROSTing, but I thought I would be a little more cerebral than that. In the movie, Nixon calls Frost in the middle of the night, rather intoxicated, on the night before their third and final interview and proceeds to psych him into feeling terribly worried about the next morning's impending conversation, the rather ominously-themed Watergate. The following morning, after sleeping off the effects of his multiple Scotches, Nixon doesn't recall the conversation, nor does he remember calling Frost in the first place. "What did we talk about," he asks Frost. "Cheeseburgers," Frost answers. And BRAISED SHORT-RIBBED BURGERS it was.
MILK: Again, another obvious choice would have been to serve milk and cookies, but please, I'm a little more challenging than that. In the movie, Harvey Milk's lover makes dinner for him. For dessert, Milk gets a pie in the face. In this capacity, I made BANANA CREAM PIE. I had never made it before, so it was interesting. Suffice to say that it wasn't the most popular dessert I've made, including with me.
THE READER: German food. What is there to say? I made a Braised Red Cabbage Salad. Nothing too exciting.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: Yet another movie without much food, but there was a bit of drinking in the beginning, so I whipped up a batch of rather red-sticky looking Hurricanes, straight from Emeril's Kitchen.
The night was fab, a smaller event than usual, but we were chuffed when SLUMDOG took it home! It must have been the bhel.
This year's Oscars was possibly the most triumphant yet. I had seen about 6 of the nominated movies and felt very strongly about one of the contenders specifically. Slumdog Millionnaire (SM) mania has swept the nation -- and the world -- in the past few months. The story of the underdog making his way into wealth and simultaneously finding love is a fairytale indeed, especially during these harsh times. And, of course, it made making the themed dinners I throw for the Oscars that much more fun since SM takes place in Bombay and what better food to have in Bombay than chaat??
The Nominees:
SLUMDOG MILLIONNAIRE: BHEL PURI (I can't take credit for this: Mom had prepped all the ingredients, brought them, and her own mixing bowl over, as well as newspaper in order to make genuine cones to eat the chaat from.
FROST NIXON: This one was a toughie, since the entire movie doesn't mention or eat a particular food at all. The obvious thing might have been to serve something with FROSTing, but I thought I would be a little more cerebral than that. In the movie, Nixon calls Frost in the middle of the night, rather intoxicated, on the night before their third and final interview and proceeds to psych him into feeling terribly worried about the next morning's impending conversation, the rather ominously-themed Watergate. The following morning, after sleeping off the effects of his multiple Scotches, Nixon doesn't recall the conversation, nor does he remember calling Frost in the first place. "What did we talk about," he asks Frost. "Cheeseburgers," Frost answers. And BRAISED SHORT-RIBBED BURGERS it was.
MILK: Again, another obvious choice would have been to serve milk and cookies, but please, I'm a little more challenging than that. In the movie, Harvey Milk's lover makes dinner for him. For dessert, Milk gets a pie in the face. In this capacity, I made BANANA CREAM PIE. I had never made it before, so it was interesting. Suffice to say that it wasn't the most popular dessert I've made, including with me.
THE READER: German food. What is there to say? I made a Braised Red Cabbage Salad. Nothing too exciting.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: Yet another movie without much food, but there was a bit of drinking in the beginning, so I whipped up a batch of rather red-sticky looking Hurricanes, straight from Emeril's Kitchen.
The night was fab, a smaller event than usual, but we were chuffed when SLUMDOG took it home! It must have been the bhel.
posted by Fat Sister | 2:08 PM
2 Comments:
Madam,
I thoroughly enjoy your blog. But whilst you describe such delicious comestibles, I would like to try them at home myself! If you would be so kind as to indulge, could you put recipes, links to the pages where you got the recipes, or links to pages where you write the recipes?
Cheers Lovie,
Juanita Nigelson
Sir, yes sir. Will you really be making such things at home?
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