# Favorite "fictional" recipes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177 "2003-12-26T23:39:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/1 "2003-12-26T23:39:26Z")
I mean “fictional” in the sense that it comes from a work of fiction, being film, book, or what-have-you. Today I was reading _The Annotated Dragonlance Legends_ (something of a junior-high version of _Lord of the Rings_ when I stumbled across a recipe for [“Otik’s Spiced Potatoes.”](http://netjunk.com/users/dragonlance/tika.htm) Fans of the books have repeatedly seen these referenced in the stories. Since it was dinnertime, I figured I’d try 'em. And damn, they were good. Spicy, yes, but better than most french fries I’ve had. I’m also a big fan of [Homer’s Patented Space Age Out-of-this-World Moon Waffles](http://www.snpp.com/guides/foods.html) (recipe about 2/3 of the way down), although I haven’t actually made them yet. Something about my desire to keep my heart pumping keeps getting in the way… Can anyone recommend any other fictional recipies they’ve made? ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/2 "2003-12-26T23:45:03Z")
In Douglas Adam’s Startship Titanic computer game, there is a rather bizarre drink you have to make that includes vodka, a flock of pureed starlings, a smashed television set, and a lemon. When you first see the ingredients, you think it is just a joke. But no, you have to actually make the drink to solve the game, which requires quite a bit of problem solving and trouble. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/3 "2003-12-26T23:52:48Z")
Well, since we’re on the subjects of the Simpsons and Douglas Adams, the Flaming Homer and Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster are obvious choices. ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/4 "2003-12-27T02:35:58Z")
Please see your nearest copy of '[A Modest Proposal](http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm) ’ for some of my favourite recipies. (Joking!) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/5 "2003-12-27T02:54:58Z")
I once took a tuna salad recipe from an Ellery Queen mystery, though I didn’t have any arsenic, so I had to substitute. I still use my variation from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/6 "2003-12-27T03:24:54Z")
There’s a Nero Wolfe cookbook that I’ve been wanting to get. I already HAVE _Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook_, which also offers Practical Advise On Life. Unfortunately, the most interesting bits have been censored. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/7 "2003-12-27T03:34:01Z")
I make a “hobbity” dish that is really yummy and you can eat gobs of it without really getting full. You slice up some broccoli, mushrooms, and onions and cook them in a big knob of butter in a non stick pan. When cooked, beat some eggs and add. Stir until done and eat. And eat. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/8 "2003-12-27T03:41:18Z")
**HDS** , I think I know what I’m having for breakfast tomorrow! Thanks so much! ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/9 "2003-12-27T04:18:29Z")
Frozen veggies work really well too. Glad you like! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/10 "2003-12-27T04:37:14Z")
I did Jubal Harshaw’s _dépression cuisine_ sliced bread fried in pan-drippings, lightly seasoned with back pepper and paprika, (from Heinlein’s _Stranger in a Strange Land_,) once. Once. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/11 "2003-12-27T07:32:05Z")
I was going to mention Nero Wolfe, especially _Too Many Cooks_, but never mind. Google has lots of mysteries with recipes. (Search “mystery recipes detective”. They seem to go together. Or try “mystery recipes novel”.) From [here (almost at the bottom)](http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv73.html): > [@](#): > > Grossman, Jo, and Robert Weibezahl, editors, > A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers > Poisoned Pen Press > Buy this book > . > A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers > Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. > Buy this book > Attention chefs! Ever get the hankering to whip up something yummy but simple like “Kinsey Millhone’s Famous Peanut Butter And Pickle Sandwich”? Or maybe you’d like to boil water the Susan Silverman way? There are plenty of recipes in these two light-hearted (but frequently artery-clogging) volumes, with recipes and commentary from everyone from Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie right up to today’s top writers, including Tony Hillerman, George Pelecanos, Anne Perry and Lillian Jackson Braun (or their characters). Highlights include Liza Cody’s "Bacon Buttie,’ Donald E. Westlake’s “May’s Mother’s Tuna Casserole,” Richard North Patterson’s Sea Bass in Orange Sauce and Harlan Coben’s “Myron’s Potato Latkes.” My only gripe is that Hannibal Lechter’s recipes for “Shepherd’s Pie and Baked Alaskan” have not been included. Probably some complaint from some fussy, overzealous PC types about the ingredients or something… > . I might need both! For kids, there’s also [this](http://www3.telus.net/dinah/recipes.htm). There are lots more. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/12 "2003-12-27T07:47:43Z")
Back when Nick-at-Nite ran Dragnet, they had a promo for the show, I think, in which Joe’s partner Bill Gannon described [Bill’s Garlic Nut-Butter Sandwich](http://www.badge714.com/recipes.htm). I forgot about the bread being pumpernickle, but other than that, I’ve made the sandwich and found it surprisingly tasty. (I actually made it on more than one occasion, and I’m craving one again now, in fact.) Unfortunately, I never saw the episode the scene was taken from. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/13 "2003-12-27T07:49:25Z")
Oh, yeah–I also toasted the bread. I think it’s a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/14 "2003-12-27T12:08:38Z")
Food got mentioned on Babylon 5 a lot, and I once held a dinner party based on the foods different characters had mentioned or been seen eating. There was Italian, _bagna cauda_, from Mister Garibaldi. There was Narn, _breen_, although I substituted a Swedish meatball recipe, as G’Kar did. There were fresh fruits mentioned by Captain Sheridan. and so on. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/15 "2003-12-27T20:34:14Z")
**Lynn** , I have the Nero Wolfe Cookbook; haven’t made anything from it on years, but it’s fun to browse through. BTW, there’s a 1996 paperback edition available on Amazon. Somewhere in my collection I also have a Star Trek Cookbook and a Star Trek bartenders guide. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/16 "2003-12-27T21:02:26Z")
Just stopping in to verify that **HDS** ’s recipe is indeed yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/17 "2003-12-27T23:04:07Z")
Someone already mentioned the Flaming Homer, but don’t forget the Flanders Planter’s Punch. (“It has three shots of rum, a jigger of bourbon, and just a little daberilla of creme de cassis for flavor!”) ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/18 "2003-12-28T00:01:27Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/19 "2003-12-28T00:44:59Z")
Nobody is mentioning _Like Water for Chocolate?_ I’ve always wanted to try the Quails in Rose Petal Sauce, but unfortunately have yet to find a situation when the ingredients and appropriate company coincided. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177/20 "2003-12-28T01:23:06Z")
Good suggestion, **Eva**. I’ve always wanted to try anything from that book, but the recipies are a little elaborate for me, as I recall. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-recipes/221177.md?page=2)