8 Fancy Celebrity Chef Recipes For Your Oscars Party

You can't properly celebrate all the celebrities on the red carpet tonight without a few recipes from celebrity chefs. Well, you can, but Hot Pockets are significantly less classy and tonight's one of the fanciest nights of the year. Treat yourself a little. As long as you've got scallops from Daniel Boulud, wine-stained pasta from Mario Batali, chocolate-hazelnut cheesecake from Nigella Lawson...well you get the idea — you are what you eat. Next year, it'll be you up there accepting the award for that awesome original screenplay you keep meaning to finish.

8 Fancy Celebrity Chef Recipes For Your Oscars Party

Black Tie Scallops Recipe

Truffled scallops from an iconic NYC restaurant

Ever wish you could eat at New York City's legendary Le Cirque every night? We sure do, but thankfully (for our wallets) we received a copy of A Table At Le Cirque and have been cooking our way through ever since. Next up, a signature truffled scallop dish by Daniel Boulud.

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Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake Recipe

Try an easy Nutella cheesecake recipe for dessert

There's no recipe that British cookbook author and TV host Nigella Lawson can't handle, which is why we were particularly excited to receive her new book, Nigellissima. This Nutella cheesecake recipe is the stuff of our dreams.

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Tapioca Coconut Cake Recipe

Cake made of tapioca pearls? Just add papaya.

The pearls are clearly visible in both of our versions, suspended in a cooked egg mixture. I’ve kicked things up, though, by flavoring the cake with coconut and lime and serving it with papaya. This makes a unique dessert, one I urge you to try.

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Merguez Dogs With Pickled Carrots And Cumin Aioli Recipe

A spicy hot dog recipe with Moroccan lamb sausage

These attractive hot dogs are served European-style on a baguette, but that doesn't mean they're not perfect for a pigskin nosh. They're just not beef franks, and we're okay with that. The cumin in the aioli plays nice with the cumin in the sausage. Good sportsmanship all around.

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Wine-Stained Gemelli & Sausage Meatballs

Wine loves pasta, and it's not afraid to show it

Here's some simple cooking logic that will take you far in life: pasta cooks in liquid, wine is a liquid, therefore pasta can cook in wine. Dispense some wine out of the box right into the pot, or buy one of those cheapo magnums. This just may be the only exception to only cooking with what you'd drink.

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Shrimp Salad Recipe

Champagne Beurre Blanc makes this salad distinctive

The beauty of this dish is the butter and soy combination. I dress a fresh green salad with a light, lemony soy sauce vinaigrette, then top it with shrimp coated in a creamy beurre blanc.

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Lobster Scrambled Eggs Recipe

Lobster and eggs make an easy, upscale brunch

This lobster scrambled eggs recipe comes from Chef David Burke. The key to this dish is using the best eggs you can find, free-range and fresh from the coop if possible. Very ripe summer tomatoes will also work wonders. Do that lobster justice.

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Frisée Salad with Duck Livers Recipe

Maybe not the healthiest salad, but a delicious one

This is a serious salad. Bright crisp herbs and tangy frisée cut through the fat of the crispy duck cracklings, which are basically bacon bits directly from God. This is not a dieter's delight, but an indulgent delicious salad sure to satisfy the hungriest of men (and women).

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