Crepes for Peter

Walter: Oh, don’t be ridiculous. You were abducted, of course you need crepes.

It was a weird one this week. No monsters, but a multitude of bald guys. Walter's food last week, of course, was crepes, so that's what we had. With sugar and cinnamon, chocolate syrup, powdered sugar, peanut butter, or ... some other strange mango stuff from the Caribbean somewhere, or maple syrup from Vermont.  And whipped cream!  How could I forget whipped cream?

Ate far too many of them, but they were good. No Fringe next week due to Thanksgiving.

Update: this was interesting.

Licorice and Mind Control

Last week when Walter mentioned licorice, one of my compatriots expressed dismay. Doesn't like licorice. This is very unfortunate. I don't mind it, myself, but a couple days later inspiration struck at around 2am: what if the licorice could be covered in chocolate?

Google showed that someone had already done the ground-breaking research involved, so all I had to do was get some dipping chocolate -- I only used about a third of the bag of licorice though. The rest I threw in the garbage, hoping that it might reach those starving children in Africa my mother always told me about.

Was I going to talk about something else? Oh, right, Fringe. This was a classic X-Files-esque episode, with some unexpected twists. It closed out with a great quote from Walter that involved food. What more could we ask for?

Ciabatta and the Cosmonaut

Last week's episode was very light on food references.  We seized on a passing reference to Ciabatta bread, and I picked up some Mediterranean dipping oil for it.  Ciabatta (Italian for -- I am not making this up -- "slipper") is a strange kind of bread made almost entirely of holes.  As it turns out it does not taste anything like feet, and went very well with the oil I brought along.

On Fringe we watched Walter & co. investigate a puzzling series of deaths that involved people turning to ash.  This episode saw the first (and probably last) request for a Dustbuster to bring the body back to the lab for analysis.  And Broyles shot somebody.  It's nice to see him out of the office and interacting with the public.

Overall, a really strong episode with good effects.