Raw pasta, eating in and eating out.

I saw this post on Oh She Glows and was immediately inspired to own one of these julienne peelers. Two minutes and a bit of Ebay later, it was on. I'd been making zucchini pasta with a regular peeler and it was seriously time consuming. Turns out this new peeler is also time consuming! The results are worth it though, check out my carrot and zucchini pasta! I think there will be a lot of this over summer.

Topped with satay tofu and mushrooms, YUM.

 Topped with French lentil bolognese, also yum.

While on the topic of home cooking, I made a seriously delicious treat last night. Garlic and pesto baked mushrooms with toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds served with herb and sesame seed fried greens on cous cous.

Also I went all out the other day (any excuse to spend an hour in the Asian grocer) and made pad Thai. Terrible photo of copious coriander (because it's awesome) but there is a world of nom under there. The pre-fried crispy tofu chunks were heaven.

Las Vegan yesterday was even more fantastic than usual. The special right now is a chicken, tempacon (THE tempacon) and avocado wrap. Wow. It also had vegan cheese, mayo and a good salad mix. This was insanely delicious and I think about $10. I added chips, naturally.

It's not right to go to Las Vegan without getting a huge take-away brownie to devour the moment you feel like you can eat again. Chocolate and strawberry dream.

Seeing as it's a weekend like every other, Gobbo was had.

Spot burger with chips - beef, bacon and cheese.

Sailor Jerry burger - fish, mayo and cheese.

Bogan burger - chicken, cheese and pineapple.

Nachos with all the good stuff - sour cream, cheese and guac.

IL GOBBO.

Okay so something pretty exciting happened last Friday night. IL GOBBO opened, in ESSENDON! YAY! We moved from Brunswick to Essendon a few months ago and man does it suck leaving all the noms. We pretty much downgraded to a crappy IGA that stocks nothing interesting and a milk bar that is never open...

THEN we heard about new vegan place IL GOBBO and had to see it to believe it. Oh my god.

I got The Spot Burger - meat, cheese, bacon, onion, pickles, ketchup and mayo. The chips were fresh made which was a little too exciting for me. Actual potatoes cut up and fried instead of a bag of frozen chips. Man they were awesome. The burger... was actually the best vegan burger I've ever had. It was very LOTF but better. The bacon was not facon, thank god and actually had flavour and texture. I was immediately happy to live so close and very afraid to live so close.

Tess got The Bogan Burger (of which you can only see bun - sorry) - chicken, herbed mayo, lettuce, beetroot, pineapple and cheese. She says it was absolutely delicious. I was too busy scoffing my Spot Burger to steal a taste.

I already spent the whole weekend raving about this place and am waiting for the first moment I can sneak back. Do this guys, seriously.

Food has happened.

I'm getting lazier and lazier with posts... I guess giant posts with a huge amount of food in it are how it's gonna be from now on cause posting more regularly is never going to happen.

So, behold some of the past months noms!

Firstly, Berrissimo is the greatest place on earth. I'm not even a big sweet tooth and I still find myself dreaming of it. Here is raspberry tart with chocolate mousse and coconut. Below is Chocolate mousse with NUTELLA, chocolate truffle balls and chocolate golden roughs. OH MY GOD VEGAN HEAVEN.

The Trinity Bakehouse in Flemington is deliciously close to work and serves two types of vegan bahn mi! Chilli lemongrass tofu (BEST) and vegan ham. $5.50 and awesome.

Karly made Chinese 5 spice seiten one time, it was amazing.

Las Vegan chocolate banana brownies as big as your head for my birthday picnic :)

Veggie Bar salads with mum for my birthday. I got marinated tofu which is confusingly tasty and mum got crispy brown rice balls with satay. Side of chips was completely unnecessary as these are the biggest salads on earth but it was MY BIRTHDAY and I demanded chips.

Picnic times in my new giant backyard. I made my usual, famous sausage rolls, which are usually inhaled within about 3-3.5 minutes. Karly made my favourite Mexican salad!

Miranda made a lemon butter cake and Tess made double chocolate cheesecake. Double the delicious.

One day I got lunch from Fruits of Passion near work. Pretty epic roast veggie and pesto turkish roll with chips, naturally. This was delicious and surprisingly cheap (roll was about $7/$9 and was massive)... again, chips unnecessary (but necessary).

Winter was an excuse to eat this as often as possible. Fry's country chicken and mushroom pies with mash, greens and onion gravy.

The weekend before my diet started... made 120 dumplings! These never get any less delicious.

Indian feast from the most delicious Indian place in Brunswick West - Tandoor n Spices. This place does not look like much and has limited dining in space/atmosphere but YES it serves up the yummiest food.

Toor dal, can't ever not get it.

Giant plate of onion bhaji, crispy delights.

Rice.

Vegetable pilaf rice and garlic wholemeal roti.

Potato and pea curry.

Aloo tikki. Potato cakes stuffed with spiced lentils and deep fried... with tamarind sauce - YUM.

We had an eight day adventure in Tasmania earlier this month! It was pretty awesome. We mostly did camp cooking (burgers, shrooms and beans breakfast, packet curries with rice and greens etc.) but a few times we ate out like fancy people!

Only one lousy picture of delicious Buddha Thai in Launceston. I am enjoying a fantastic pad see ew and Jeff got a red curry with rice.

MoMo Bubble Tea and Coffee House in Hobart was a good mock meat haven. This BBQ duck was INSANELY tasty. We went twice and possibly ordered the same thing...

Soy burger with chips.

These BBQ shiitake ribs were other worldy... I could have eaten about 99 of them. How do they make mushrooms taste like smokey sticky heaven? I don't know but you need to eat them, now.

The biggest win of Tassie eating was Garden of Vegan in Launceston. WOW this place was special, and beautiful. They have a set daily menu that worked out very well for us! It was a freezing wet day and laksa was on the menu!

Chai lattes (on crockery from my childhood!)

Cold sesame noodle dish which Nia thoroughly enjoyed.

Tea.

Most wholesome and delicious laksa I've ever eaten. Everything tasted really healthy and nutritious and good for you. Anyone who can make laksa feel like that is a winner. I didn't even feel greasy afterwards!

Raw cheesecake and truffle for dessert, naturally.

Foodz of late.

More of the favorites, some new places and home cooked things too - it's all happening over here.

Cornish wins. Crispy duck BLT, chicken Hawaiian pizza and chicken and bacon burger.

A Minor Place - creamy henry's beans, toast with avo and shrooms and quesadilla.

This mint chocolate is available from the Brunswick IGA and is actual crack. Also available in strawberry, orange and lemon, it's dairy-free, $1.69 and completely addictive.

I made dumplings, they are ugly and DELICIOUS.

Work lunches are always healthy and tasty. This day was spiced lentil and chickpea patties with salad. I would have had them the night before with steamed veggies.

Work night stir-fry. Tofu with every vegetable in the produce section drowned in chilli and soy.

Karly says this was the "BEST VEGAN CINNAMON BUN IN THE WORLD!" from Mr Nice Guy.

Awkward car lunch. Store-bought felafel with salad and delicious Shuki and Louisa hummus.

Tried a raw lunch from Shokuiku in Northcote. Salad plate with three salads and tart was $10 and damn tasty. Raw cakes afterwards were equally NOM. Guilt-free desserts FTW.

My favorite dish from my favorite Thai place - black pepper garlic tofu from Kao Thai. Man this dish is seriously DELICIOUS. Only down side is that it's a small serve for the price. This means I only get it once every few months instead of once a week like my old Thai place.

Went to see what all the fuss was about at Shop Ramen. It's true - the vegan cashew milk ramen was tasty. I wasn't in love but it felt wholesome and warm. Smoked tofu bun was a winner but only two mouthfuls large and a bit overpriced.

Considering I've almost made my way through the entire Veggie Bar menu it wasn't a surprise that I hadn't tried a salad until recently. Salad, blah. THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED. This house salad was fantastic and I've dreamt of it many times since. In fact, I'm going there today for it! Fresh salad leaves covered in raw and baked veggies, crispy marinated tofu logs of dreams covered in some sort of magic brown dressing... it's special.

We were on south side for a movie the other night. We go to south side about twice a year and usually end up at Veg Out Time. Veg Out Time was closed, forever, we were lost and confused. Luckily I was feeling junky and we were walking distance from Mr Natural. Enter - garlic cheese pizza and pepperoni/everything pizza. Best wholemeal bases!