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This is the actual recipe inspired by Up our series of 2010 Oscar Party Dishes.

You may not have your Wilderness Explorer badge for cooking yet, so here’s a simple recipe for potato skins with a dollop of garlic herbed sour cream that will earn you your badge. Maybe you can take some to that elderly man you’ve been trying to help.

• 3 large baking potatoes
• bacon bits
• mild cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
• salt and pepper to taste

Bake or microwave your potatoes until they’re tender.  Slice the potatoes longways about half an inch thick.  You should get about two to three skins per potato depending upon the size of your potato.  Top with desired amount of cheese and bacon and place in the oven on 350F for about 8 to 10 minutes or until the cheese is well melted.

While the potatoes are baking, mix sour cream, garlic powder, and parsley in a small dish.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Place a dollop of sour cream on each potato skin when they’re done.  Eat as it or dip it in your favorite ranch dressing!

This is the actual recipe inspired by Inglourious Basterds for our series of 2010 Oscar Party Dishes.

You can take the easy way on this one and stop by your local French bakery and pick up a batard loaf, or live adventurously and make your own.

Starter:

• 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2/3 cup warm water
• a pinch of salt
• 1/8 tsp active dry yeast

Dough

• 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup water
• 1/2  Tbsp salt
• 1/4 tsp active dry yeast

Begin by adding the starter yeast into the warm water slowly.  Once it is sufficiently mixed, pour into the flour and salt in a large bowl.  Mix, cover, and allow to sit overnight.

Sometime the next day, mix all the dough ingredients in a seperate bowl.  Break the starter dough into pieces and mix into the dough mixture.  Pound and fold the dough for serveral minutes until it is thoroughly mixed.  Place in a greased bowl and allow to rise for 1 hour.  Remove dough and fold it a few times, then let rise for 1 hour.  Repeat.  Remove the dough and roll into a wide rounded oval.  Allow to rise for an additional hour.  Place a couple of shallow slices across the top of the loaf before putting it into a preheated 450 degree oven.  Place a  baking dish of water underneath to even some of the baking.  Bake for 20 minutes, then rotate the loaf 180 degrees, and bake an additional 20 minutes.  Serve with your favorite, German, French, or Russian cheeses.

This is the actual recipe inspired by Up in the Air for our series of 2010 Oscar Party Dishes.

• Cotton candy

For those of you busy jet-setting around the world, this dish is best created by stopping by your local fair grounds or farmer’s market and purchasing cotton candy directly.  Pull off a nice round chunk of it and place it in a cup of appropriate size.  We suggest using 2 oz size for the right portion.  If, however, your either have the homemade cotton candy machine you got when you were a kid or you have access to an industrial cotton candy machine by all means make your own cotton candy.  We, at Movie-Recipes.com, do not and in lieu of the 10 Best Picture nominations are taking the easy road with this dish by purchasing pre-made cotton candy.

This is the actual recipe inspired by An Education for our series of 2010 Oscar Party Dishes.

• 2 lbs edamame
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 Tbsp sea salt
• soy sauce

Place edamame and water in large pan over medium-high heat and cover.  Allow to steam for 7-8 minutes then remove from heat and drain remaining water.  Sprinkle with sea salt and serve with a side of soy sauce.

This is the actual recipe inspired by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 1 lb ground mutton
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp chopped mint leaves
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 10 crackers
• 1 can mandarin oranges
• mint leaves
• toothpicks

Begin by mixing the orange juice, chopped mint leaves, ground ginger, soy sauce, and brown sugar in a large bowl.  Once they are appropriately mixed, add in the ground mutton and mix with your hands until all of the mixture is absorbed.  Next, crumble up 10 crackers and mix that into the mutton.  Roll into approximately one inch balls and bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 300 degrees.   Meanwhile, drain the can of mandarin oranges.  Once the meatballs are finished cooking, place a toothpick in the middle of the meatball vertically.  Lastly, garnish with a mandarin orange segment and mint leaf on top.

Makes about 24 meatballs

This is the actual recipe inspired by Milk for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 1 cup milk
• 1-2 Tbsp chocolate syrup
• 1 oz peppermint schnapps

Begin by adding chocolate syrup to milk and stirring thoroughly.  Add peppermint schnapps and stir again.  Throw in a few ice cubes and you’re done.

Makes 1 drink

This is the actual recipe inspired by The Reader for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/8 – 1/4 cup milk
• 1 Tbsp parsley
• 2 tsp dill weed
• 1 tsp minced onions
• 1/4 tsp ground cayenne pepper

Begin by mixing the sour cream and mayonnaise together in a bowl.  Add in dill weed, parsley, minced onions, and cayenne pepper and stir until they are evenly mixed.  Lastly, stir in 1/8 cup of milk.  Add an additional 1/8 cup milk if the dip is too thick for your liking.  Refrigerate for a few hours before serving. Serve with assorted vegetables, pretzels, or chips.

Makes 1 1/2 to 2 cups

This is the actual recipe inspired by Frost/Nixon for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Black icing

Allow butter to soften then use a mixer to blend it with with sugar.  Once it is uniformly mixed, beat in the egg and vanilla.  Next, slowly add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

For the simpletons:  Round cookie

After everything is thoroughly mixed, roll spoonfuls of dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet.  Then flatten using the bottom of a glass or something similar.  Be sure to leave at least 1 inch between cookies.  Bake in the oven at 375 degrees for about 9 minutes.  Allow to cool, then decorate with icing to resemble Richard Nixon, as seen on the right side of the picture.

For the more adventurous:  Nixon shaped cookie

After everything is thoroughly mixed, remove the dough from the mixer and allow to chill for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator wrapped in wax paper.  While the dough is chilling, make a homemade cookie cutter in the shape of Richard Nixon.  Once finished, remove about half of the dough and roll out on a floured counter until it is approximately 1/4 inch thick.  Using your recently fashioned cookie cutter, cut out cookies and place at least 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet.  Bake at 375 degrees for 9 minutes then accentuate your cookie with features akin to those of Richard Nixon, as seen on the left side of the photo once they have cooled.

Makes approximately 3 dozen cookies

This is the actual recipe inspired by Slumdog Millionaire for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 1 pineapple
• 1 cantaloupe
• 1 honeydew melon
• Whipped cream (canned, Cool Whip, or homemade)
• brown sugar
• toothpicks

Peel and cut each fruit into 1 inch cubes.  Stick a tooth pick into the middle of a piece of pineapple.  Then stick on a piece of the cantaloupe, followed by the honeydew.  You’ll have a nice little fruit high-rise.  Top the tower with a dollop of whipped cream and sprinkle with brown sugar.

Makes approximately 25 fruit-towers.

Starting tomorrow, in celebration of the upcoming Academy Awards, Movie Recipes will be bringing you actual recipes for food items that you can serve at your Oscar party!  We’ll give you one original recipe inspired by the nominees for Best Motion Picture (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire) each day this week.

We hope you’ll enjoy the recipes, and if you decide to make any of them, be sure to let us know how they turned out!