Walter Bishop's Deli (4/4)

By thecortexifan (@thecortexifan)

PART 4 (read part 3)

5.10 Anomaly XB-6783746

Waffle Sticks. I think this was one of my favorite. 

I found a waffle stick maker and had to buy it of course. Make your waffle batter according to your favorite recipe and bake half of it. Then add cocoa powder or melted chocolate to the rest of the batter and bake. 

Melt white, dark, or milk chocolate and dip, decorate with sprinkles. Obviously I didn't have a cart but I found a way to display mine too. 

I think this covers pretty much it. All of the items make great buffets for "Fringe" themed parties. Here are a few more smaller things you can use to round out your buffets. 

1.06 The Cure

Walter: "To understand what happened at the diner - we'll use Mister Papaya. Clear!... This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits." 

Obviously I wasn't going to blow up a papaya. But we needed some fruit representation so I created Mrs. Melone. lol. Cut the top off from a watermelon, scoop out the meat but save it, refill the melon after you're done. Draw a mouth, nose or mustache on it, take pipe cleaners to create arms and legs, and stick wiggle eyes on it and there you go. 

Here are all the episode references for this last bunch. Then at the end I'll post displays from the parties. 

1.07 In Which We Meet Mr. Jones (left)

Walter: "You know I had a fruit cocktail once. In Atlantic City. Mind you. I'm not a fruit cocktail sort of guy." I'm really hoping that Walter about the food fruit cocktail, lol. Is there anything else that has that nick name? 

3.21 The Last Same Weiss (right)

Walter: "It's a long time since I've seen a classic fruit cocktail. Why do you suppose that is?"

1.15 Inner Child (left) 

Olivia: "When I was a kid, I used to live on these. Except the yellow. Something about the color. Reminded me of medicine." 

Now before you go and say M&Ms aren't Walter food. Here is this. 

4.15 A Short Story About Love (right)

Walter: "I've run out of M&Ms."

2.16 Olivia. In The Lab. With The Revolver 

Walter: "... since we're baking, we may as well make some taffy." And later. 

Walter: "It's taffy. I'm making it for Peter."

3.04 Do Shapeshifters Dream Of Electric Sheep 

Astrid: "Look, animal cookies. You love these."

Walter: "No. Belly loved them. I occasionally eat them to honor him, that is all."

5.03 The Recordist 

Now this is not really Walter Food but I wanted some rocks/crystals. I found this candy. 

So now, let's put it together. 

Fringe Party 2012. The cookies in the front center are bacon cookies. 

Fringe Party 2013

Walter Food is just as special to me as the show, its characters and cast.  Fringe not only left an indelible mark on my soul but also in my stomach :)

THE END

credits: screencaps are from fringefiles.com, transcripts are from fringepedia.net, and the other pictures are mine. 

Walter Bishop's Deli (3/4)

By thecortexifan (@thecortexifan)

PART 3 (read part 2)

4.14 The End Of All Things

Walter's way of dealing with difficult things, he eats... weird food. I'm glad he didn't add any of the olives from that jar next to the sprinkles. 

Just follow Walter's instructions. We used whole wheat bread though.

4.16 Nothing As It Seems

Walter: "... I have just made some peanut butter and bacon sandwiches." 

Lincoln: "...this bacon is fantastic. Do you have any more?" (right pic) 

Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches are delicious. We tried different types of bacon, regular and Canadian. And both tasted great. You could use crunchy peanut butter as well and of course your choice of bread.

4.22 Brave New World Part 2

Walter: "Excuse me, Miss. Is that Lemon Jell-o?"

Of course I don't need to explain what is in those jars, lol. I thought this would be a fun addition to a "FRINGE" party so I tried to recreate this. 

Find little containers (as many guests you expect) and use lemon jell-o and there you go. Spread the containers over your buffet area (pics of that will come at the end).

This next one was mostly for display again. I combined a few episodes to create the "2036 plate".

5.01 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11

Walter: (spits out food) "What's that?"

Etta: "It's an Egg Stick."

Walter: "What a miserable future." I agree!

5.03 The Recordist

Peter is hungry.

Peter: "What's that?"

Etta: "It's an apple."

5.04 The Bullet That Saved The World

Walter: "It's my old doughnut hole. Jelly. It's still spongy. It's still good." Oh Walter!

Ok, so now let's put it together. The first time I tried this I couldn't find a doughnut hole anywhere. I decided to do this as a last minute thing the first time. So I took the inside of a roll and covered it with cinnamon and sugar. For the tentacles I used Twizzlers Pull 'n' Peel. Then I poured some strawberry or raspberry sauce over it. The second time I did this, I did find doughnut holes. (right).

For the egg sticks, I fried 3 or 4 egg whites in a tiny pan to get the thickness. Once they were cooled off I cut them in stripes and put them on skewers, breaking/cutting them to length. I don't remember what I used for the "apple" on the left. The other "apples" were green candy. Mind you that this was purely for display!

To be continued... More every three weeks

credits: screencaps are from fringefiles.com, transcripts are from fringepedia.net, and the other pictures are mine. 

Walter Bishop's Deli (2/4)

By thecortexifan (@thecortexifan)

PART 2 (read part 1)

3.06 6955 kHz

Walter: "Avocado, cucumber, and cheese. In 1974, the CIA asked me to develop the best sandwich for clarity of thought."

Thank you Walter, for teaching me to eat avocados because I've never had them before this. Quite delicious, I must say. If you don't like avocados but love guacamole, you can use it (that's what I did the first time around). Take white or whole wheat bread, spread avocado or guac on it. Slices of your favorite cheese, I used medium cheddar and top it off with cucumber slices. Spread more avocado or guac on the other slice of bread and there you go.

3.16 Os

Walter: "It was Belly's intellect that made [Massive Dynamic] great. All I've managed to do with its vast resources is to create a new flavor of cupcake frosting. Bacon-berry."

Yes! We tried it. WARNING: This looks disgusting, lol. 

We took frozen stawberries and put them in a blender and added bacon bits.

Then we took regular white frosting and added our mix. We covered sponge cake with the frosting, served it with pizza and cotton candy. 1.06 The Cure. Walter: "Blue. Not Pink."

I just realized that we never tried making our own milk shakes or custard. 

Let me just tell you that... it was disgusting, lol. But, we didn't have Walter's lab or equipment to do it properly. Maybe using real bacon would have helped or whatever Walter was smoking ;)

4.08 Back To Where You've Never Been

Walter: "Chocolate chip and banana pancakes."

Take your favorite pancake recipe, add sliced bananas and chocolate chip. Bake. Serve with bacon. Oh yeah and... we added Red Vines to almost anything, lol.

4.11 Making Angels

Walter: "What would you say to some eggs? I had a marvelous dream last night in which eggs played a prominent part." Just got to love Walter's imagination.

And later in that episode (right pic)

Walter: "Perhaps y - you would both [talking to Astrid and Alt-Astrid] like to join me in a plate of eggs. W - with chives."

I felt so bad for Walter that no one wanted to join him. So I was absolutely thrilled when he finally had a taker in 4.18 The Consultant.

Walter: "Some people swear by hair of the dog, but I prefer nature's sponge, the egg."

Scramble your eggs, add chives or parsley (that's what I used), serve with bacon and toast, sprinkled works :).

4.12 Welcome To Westfield

Peter: "Walter is creating a new breakfast cocktail - hot cinnamon roll... It's mostly Cinnamon Schnapps and butter, but... right now it's mostly butter." 

And No! We did not try this one. Had to draw the line somewhere. 

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credits: screencaps are from fringefiles.com, transcripts are from fringepedia.net, and the other pictures are mine. 

Walter Bishop's Deli (1/4)

By thecortexifan (@thecortexifan)

PART 1

It all started when a Fringie came over on a Saturday evening to watch the re-run of 3.09 Marionette. We decided it should be “Walter food” for dinner. So we had chicken strips (we don't like wings) and strawberry milkshakes.

But that wasn't enough. My mind was being silly and crazy that day.

Walter was talking about “milk that doesn't go bad, and cheese” and later he licked the (supposedly) ashes of Amanda Walsh.

  

So... I created the “Marionette plate”,  mostly for “show and tell.“

I cut up cheese, put milk in this little pitcher, used cocoa powder for the ashes, and added some Red Vines, because... ;)

I think it was a success because from that moment on, every time we would get together and watch Fringe, we would try to recreate the food items Walter mentioned or presented. Red Vines, strawberry milkshakes were almost always part of out get-together's. 

We also had lots of floats. We used root beer, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi or orange juice, vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt, added whipped cream, sprinkles and our straws were Red Vines.

Pretty much the first time we see Walter, he mentions food. 

1.01 Pilot

Walter: "They have this horrible pudding here. Butterscotch pudding on Mondays. It's dreadful."

Peter said it best. 

2.10 Grey Matters

Peter: "Every time Walter asks for a piece of food..., he's trying to recreate a moment in time to help him remember." 

Let's dive in to some more of Walter's creations. I tried to list them in the order as they appeared on the show, not necessarily in the order I made them. 

2.07 Of Human Action

Walter: "Oh, don't be ridiculous. You were abducted. Of course you need crepes!"

I'm not going to tell you recipes for crepes. You can find recipes online that serves your diet. After you baked them... let loose and be creative.

We boldly used bacon, Nutella, whipped cream, Red Vines, sprinkles, and fruit. Every one of them just tasted delicious.

As I mentioned in the beginning that our first Walter food dinner included chicken strips. Those were from BK, I think. Later for one of the "Fringe" parties I held, I made my own. 

2.22 Over There Part 1

Walter: "Double breaded for a big crunch. It's so good. Tastes just like on our side. It was Wednesday, 1983, when I happened to identify the last of the 11 secret herbs and spices."

Well, I just used pepper. I bought a few chicken breasts (depending again on the number of people you will have) and cut them in pieces. I left some natural. For the others I used an egg, crunched up french fried onion, and pan fried them. 

They were delicious and we went crazy because... we discovered that dipping them in butterscotch pudding... is awesome. Lol. Thanks Walter. 

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credits: screencaps are from fringefiles.com, transcripts are from fringepedia.net, and the other pictures are mine.