Mock Food links

• retro-food.com on Mock Chicken Salad (and see her Curried Fake Chicken Salad);
• the old foodie on How to Fake an Oyster (including a recipe for brains);
• the old foodie on Mock Chocolate Soup;
• some Australian mock food at unusual coleslaw;
• an article "In Praise of Mock Food" by Patricia Roberts in Gastronomica 3 (2003) (abstract here);
• "Faux Gras" - eddybles on mock food;
• Heston Blumenthal's Mock Turtle Soup (serves 500).

Here's the family's attempt at Mock Whiting:

The recipe ("Fried Cucumber") is can be found here.

The recipe ends with the hope that, 

"Probably you will find you have fried whiting."

chuck(le)

Love these:

Royal Wedding Sick Bags 

by Lydia Leith (www and shop).

I've already succumbed to temptation, 

so I'm prepared for April.

Bookish Bits

Help! bookmark (designboom via badder homes & gardens)

Library desk (vivaterra via jeri's organizing & decluttering)

Fornasetti bookends (unica home via design*sponge)

Animal Index dividers (via better living through design)

Book brush (via better living through design)

New Book Smell in-a-can (via foolish gadgets)

Pick the clichés: Book Review Bingo (examiner via maitresse)

via bookshelfporn

CB I Hate Perfume 'In the Library'

Recycling: books into cards by quaint living.

Crochet

I'm a sucker for crochet.

I think it's a combination of mad colours and symmetry.

Crochet-top storage stool (Rice via jeri's organising & decluttering)

I've now bought two of these cushions

from the very talented art & wool on made it. 

Her tea-cosies are amazing too. 

My all-time favourite crochet tea-cosy is from Wendys Woollys: 

the pineapple in pineapple stitch:

I need to persuade my mother to take up her hook again. 

There are bags of granny squares here somewhere.