Movie Night Potluck Party Made Awesome with Clara Ole
It’s official, rainy season is here. It’s perfect for movie nights! Instead of going to the mall on a rainy weekend to watch a movie, why not host a movie night and invite your friends, neighbors and loved ones to come over to your place and watch a DVD of your choice. Laughing out loud together to “Pitch Perfect,” screaming together to “Child’s Play” or crying together to “The Fault in Our Stars” are the perfect scenarios, don’t you think?
But before the movie screening, get the party started with some movie-themed games like charades, Pinoy Henyo, etc. You can also serve some finger food, pasta, popcorn and other dishes that we love to eat while watching our favorite movies. Let me share with you what I did with my own movie night.
Last June 27, I hosted a Movie Night Gathering at the Raya Gardens Condominium in Paranaque City and invited some friends and neighbors to come over.
Registration started at 4:30pm. We asked each guest to think of a screen name for their name tag. It can be a name of a Hollywood star or a character from their favorite movie. We also asked them to write a cooking #diskartip on a card to be posted on the “wall of fame.”
While everyone is waiting for all the guests to arrive, the food-oriented movie “The Chef” is playing on the A/V system.
At past 5:00pm, I welcomed all the guests and introduced the theme of the event, which is Movie Night, and why this kind of party is popular with families and group of friends.
As part of my introduction, I acknowledged Clara Ole for joining in as a partner for the party by providing the ingredients to make the food more exciting and delicious.
I also acknowledged the presence of our special guest, Ms. Amy Perez, who brought his son Adi to join the event. I also thanked our friend Honey Zafra for the intimate venue apt for movie night.
Then I introduced the fabulous RM Marcelo, our hilarious emcee for the night. We picked 3 cards from the “wall of fame” and gave insights about the cooking #diskartips that was written on each card.
We kicked off the Movie Marathon Party with the “Category Game” as Ice Breaker. RM will provide a category and the microphone will take rounds to let each guest to give an example of the said category. If the guest’s answer is already mentioned or if he/she is not able to answer within 5 seconds, he/she will be out of the game.
Here are the categories given: titles of superhero films, titles of horror films foreign or local, titles of romantic comedy movies, titles of novels turned movie, Filipino superheroes, titles of animated movies, titles of Sharon Cuneta movies, love teams, awards being given at the Oscars, etc.
Here are the Top 4 competing for the Masflex Pro special prize:
Then it’s “Dish Sharing” time. RM introduced the movie title-inspired food on the buffet table and called the person who prepared the food to share some #diskartips on how they made the dish.
I started the dish sharing with “Chicken Little,” an exciting take on chicken fingers made delectable with Clara Ole Dips and Dressings.
The ingredients for Chicken Little are chicken breast, two eggs, Japanese breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. It’s easy to prepare, just cut the chicken breast into finger-sized slices, dip into a bowl with beaten eggs with salt and pepper, roll onto the breadcrumbs then fry.