I love cooking, learning about and eating food. I was very happy to discover the new house has a lovely lemon tree and a plant known as Monstera deliciosa. It’s a lovely looking plant that also yields quite an amazing fruit. Wasn’t sure if it was edible at first, as it is quite a strange looking fruit, like a cross between Custard apple, Pineapple and a Mexican cactus. (incidentally, this plant is originally from Mexico). It tastes as such too – minus the cactus bit… never tried that

Check out the entry on Wikipedia.

Discovered a great little grocery store on Brunswick St, about 6 mins walk from my place. Couldn’t see the name of it – from a quick google, maybe ‘The Vegetable Connection’? I’ll try to find out. Edit: Yep, it’s ‘The Vegetable Connection’.

Anyway, their selection is amazing – I’m in heaven. Great selection of raw, organic, crap free foods. w00t.

Here is a recent selection of stuff:

Note the Philipa’s Herbed Spiced Nuts. Mathieu put me onto these at a plasq BBQ earlier this year. Damn addictive. Don’t get them!!

Wow, Flock makes blogging flickr images SO easy. Awesome. Moving on…

Here are photos of dinners I’ve made recently, just for fun.

That last one is a breakfast – eggs, truss tomato, zucchini, avocado, eggplant (with stacks of Olive Oil), vegetarian sausages and fake bacon. I’ve been a Pesco/pollo vegetarian for 3-5 months now (Haven’t really kept count ). It hasn’t been hard as I’ve never been a big meat eater, but early on, had a few dreams about accidentally eating meat. Diet is mostly Vegetarian food, but a few times a week, I have fish.

plasq wise, we are working on a new app. I’m very excited about this one. We have actually had a rough version that we have all been using for the last year or so. Without going into what it is, it is incredibly helpful with our international collaboration

Shot of my new HQ. Loving the walls and downlighting. Yepp, that is my art.. gotta do some more.

P.S, posted this with Flock.. Nice browser… seemed to have issues posting though.. said it didn’t post, but did. Oh well, had to delete some dupes But check it out! Chris Messina and crew are doing some very cool things. Great UI work.
EDIT: Seems I totally missed that Chris left Flock way before I posted this – he is still consulting though. So great work Flock team.

w00t! Yesterday, Girlfriend and I moved to an awesome new house in Carlton. We were rather sick of living in Pascoe Vale. Working from home, you need stuff to do within walking distance. Pascoe Vale is nice and all, but a deadland for cafés to sit and work at for a change of view.

Being within walking distance of Melbourne City, Brunswick street, and Lygon street is gonna rock. Now I just need to get the internet connected there. Might be working out of Joe’s garage for a few days