Oscar Party Recipes 2022
Lynley Jones
It’s Oscar season!
What are you wearing? Who are you watching with? (Did you see all the movies? Me neither!)
Here’s my annual list of award-winning noshes for your viewing pleasure:
And the award goes to...
For Best Non-Licorice Pizza:
For Trendiest Snackfood:
For Most Glamorous Hollywood Cocktail:
For Best 1950s Dessert for When You’re Being the Ricardos:
For Best Picture:
Oscar-Winning Ingredients:
The spices that play starring roles in the award-worthy recipes above. (Honestly, it’s an honor just to be nominated.)
Organic. Juniper berries are harvested from evergreen junipers in fall and winter. They have a pleasant, slightly sweet flavor with a piney-floral aroma. Crush them slightly and use them with brines and meat, in cocktails, or to add an herbal note to something sweet.
1/2 cup sized jar.
Originally from Aleppo, Syria, this pepper is now being grown in neighboring Turkey. Mildly spicy, it’s like a cross between ancho chile and red bell peppers. Addictively good on veggies of all kinds, as well as grilled meats, fish and more.
1/2 cup-sized jar.
Mexican Sweet Blend is our own original blend of sweet Mexican flavors: piloncillo (Mexican brown sugar) and canela (Mexican cinnamon). Bake with it, sprinkle it over fruit, stir it into coffee or hot chocolate, or combine it with savory spices for a barbecue rub. Locally made by us in small batches.
Common in Latin American, Caribbean and Middle Eastern and Persian cuisines. Steep with spices for tea or use to make a dessert sauce. Steep with savory ingredients to make a sauce for chicken, lamb or shrimp.
1/2 cup-sized jar.
Our flavorful organic cumin seeds come from India and Turkey. These high-quality cumin seeds have a robust flavor and a gorgeously deep brown color, flecked with green and gold. Cumin is a classic ingredient in cuisines around the world, including Indian, Mexican, Middle Eastern and many others. Use them whole in rice, curries, beans and soups to infuse the dish with flavor. Or crush them with a mortar and pestle to sprinkle on meats and taco toppings.
1/2 cup-sized jar.
More Recipes for Your Oscar Party:
Arugula and prosciutto pizza with cracked black pepper and sea salt, drizzled with garlic olive oil and spiked with Aleppo pepper.