It’s Oscar Sunday!! I love the Academy Awards… and I LOVE movies. Anyone who knows me knows this. They also know I could easily watch two movies a day and no TV, but I digress.  This really is one of my favorite times of the year and like many, I will be hosting an Oscar party. What to serve?? Oh I’ve been scribbling and scribbling, hoping, working myself into a frenzy, trying to summon some sort of creativity over food, presentation, and easy to prepare! I thought movie foods would be fun, but then what if I have hotdogs leftover? That’s no good. Appetizers? Too much work. Soup shots? Boring. I decided to break down the films nominated into ethnic/region/country category. All in all what we have here is French, the Middle East, the South/American and Indian/Seafood (most of the film he was at sea). We definitely have to have popcorn, that’s just the law. Now what can I whip up in my sleep? Of course I started with cupcakes... actually I started with cookies but then decided that I was craving a Hostess cupcake, so now we are all having cupcakes. Okay, so I’m serving Chocolate Cupcakes with a cream filling and those famous L’s drawn on top. Next up, chocolate dipped strawberries and assorted macaroons. I love those little French cookies! We’ll be dining on oven fried chicken pops, fancy panko encrusted tater tots, and vanilla infused cornbread. For apps we’ll have dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves), I’ll chop up some parsley in my sleep for tabbouleh, make some hummus and serve it with yummy warm pita bread. I’m also going to throw in one of my Five Peppercorn Smoked Salmon Pates with crackers. There. I think I have all my bases covered. No! I’m missing a vegetable. Rats! Well, at least I have fruit. What will you be serving? To be continued…