Secret Life of Food

Yesterday, while book shopping, I found the coolest and cutest book I have seen in a long while, The Secret Life of Food. I'm no chef but this is a book filled with food creations that imitate life with fairly easy recipes that even a cooking retard like me could manage to make without too much fuss. The meatball eyeballs are hilarious and the Jell-O Aquarium [ pictured above ] is something I'm definitely going to try making since Jell-O by itself is a pretty boring food but making an aquarium with it is simply brilliant :)

Jell-O Aquarium by Clare Crespo

Ingredients

• 1 gallon glass goldfish bowl
• 2 boxes Berry Blue Jell-O gelatin
• 1 can fruit cocktail
• gummi fish or plastic fish [ or print out some tropical fish on a colour printer, print the mirror image of them, cut them out, paste them together to create a fish on both sides then laminate them ]
• plastic aquarium plant [ optional but really adds something to it ]

Directions

1. Prepare the Jell-O as per the directions on the box. Pour into fishbowl.
2. Drain fruit cocktail and slowly pour it into the goldfish bowl. This is the 'gravel'. If you have the plastic tank plant, add it before pouring in the fruit cocktail and hold it in place until the cocktail anchors it on the bottom.
3. Place fishbowl into refrigerator to thicken for an hour to partially set.
4. Remove from refrigerator and place fish in the gelatin using a stick or utensil to position them.
5. Return the fishbowl to the refridgerator to set completely and firmly.
6. Serve with a spoon and don't eat the plastic bits :)