VeganKiwi

I did something totally unbelievable, something that if you knew me 5 years ago and I had done it then you would be so amazed. I ate mushrooms on my own free will!

Now since turning Vegetarian/Vegan I’ve decided to try all those fruits and vegetables that I always hated as a kid again. Mushrooms I’ve had to ease myself into, I started by eating them on pizza, or chopped up really finely in a pasta sauce, but today I took the plunge.

Portobello Mushrooms I’ve heard described as an honorary meat.

I fried them lightly in margarine and them let them boil in a sort of peanut butter sauce that I made.

I then added them to a sandwich that also had pineapple on it and a tiny bit of leftover vegan cheese then fried that.

MY GOD it was the best toasted sammich I have ever eaten! A+++ I would definitely trade again!!

And just because all the Vegan blogs seem to do it here’s a photo of what it looked like before I devoured it!

Oh I promised you Police Officers didn’t I?

Well like most Teenage boys I’m pretty anti-establishment, probably more so than most actually!

I have a huge dislike for police officers, not the people, just the job they do and how they do it.

I was in my second week and about $2,000 (90% spent on alcohol) into a drunken working holiday in Australia. Staying in a hostel right next to the main Brisbane city police headquarters.

I for some reason decided to throw a bottle of the balcony, it “unintentionally” hit a cop car that turned out to be owned by some big-wig cop.

Anyway they caught it on camera and kicked me out without refunding the money I had paid in advance for the next weeks rent.

Jobless and without any money left I slept on the streets of Brisbane City for the next 3 days, but that’s a story  for another day xD

Ciao

I stole this survey from “My Life as A Vegan” who in turn Stole it from “Pleasantly Plump Vegan” I thought it was quite a good “introduction” sort of post

1. If you have to choose between locally grown or organic, which do you usually choose?
I don’t currently get much choice in the shopping department living unemployed with my dad he does most of the shopping, but one thing I want to do as soon as I move out is start growing all my own veges!
2. Favourite way to prepare potatoes:
Chop up into tiny pieces,boil, mash up with lots of margarine and peeper!
3. Do you press your tofu before preparing/cooking it (if you eat soy)?
Most of the time, I generally try to freeze it to, because I like the texture better!
4. Name your favorite recipe that is a tradition in your family:
Cheesecakes at Christmas, I will definitely try to make a vegan one for myself this year!
5. Any food allergies?
I don’t think so :S
6. When you want to go to a fancy dinner, where do you go?
Wow haven’t really gone out for a fancy dinner since going vegan, ummm Burger Fuel?
7. When you have a cold, what do you crave?
Something greasy!
8. What kind of water do you drink? (Filtered, spring, tap, etc.)
Filtered, or Mizone
9. Name a flavor of soda you’d love to see:
hmmmm I dunno purple colored but orange flavored fanta?
10. If the recipes you ate as a child were compiled into a cookbook, what would the title be?
“Your parents are trying to poison you again”
11. If you were allowed to grow one food that can’t grow in your climate, what would it be?
Bananas!!!
12. Favorite type of mushroom?
Portabello?
13. Most frustrating part of your kitchen?
Elements take forrrrevvveeer to heat up!
14. Last food you burned?
Oven cook chips sprinkled with mixed herbs!
15. Usual response to a vegan’s favorite question, “But where do you get your protein?”:
Beans and Soy Milk!!
16. If you were baking your own birthday cake today, what flavor would it be?
Banana!
17. Favourite brand of chocolate chips?
Don’t have one :S
18. You have $200 of your tax return reserved for Williams Sonoma - What do you buy?
A really sharp knife, and some nice big restaurant style plates!
19. Do you plan your menus in advance? Any tips to share?
Nope I tend to go with the flow and throw things together and hope like hell they work.
20. You have 3 minutes before you have to leave the house and you’re starving- What do you eat?
Peanut butter sammich xD
21. If Martha Stewart, Paula Deen, and Rachel Ray got into a fight, who would win and how?
Rachel Ray, doesn’t she come from the bronx?
22. If you eat oatmeal, what do you add to it before serving?
Golden Syrup
23. If you got to travel to one country and learn all the traditional dishes there, where would you go (ignore commitments in your current place of residence.)
India or Japan!
24. Favourite late night snack?
Steamed Spinich
25. Favourite springtime food?
Pastaaaaa
26. Favorite food-related magazine?
No Idea!
27. Which do you prefer: shoyu, tamari, conventional soy sauce, or Bragg’s Aminos?
We dont get any of those other ones here I don’t think…
28. What vegetable or fruit do you dislike the most?
Used to hate mushrooms, ummmmm Brussel Sprouts??
29. Name a holiday food you look forward to all year long:
>.> Birthday Cake?
30. If you could convert anyone to veganism with your magic wand, who would you convert?
I could say my girlfriend Aimee, but shes Vegetarian and has her own reasons for not going Vegan that I respect.  So um my best friend Dylan just because I know its something he would never even consider!

Hello, and welcome to anyone who has stumbled across my little corner of the web!

I guess I should first start by introducing myself! My name is Sean and I am an Eighteen year old guy who lives in Hamilton which is a city in the North Island of a little country at the bottom of the world called New Zealand.

This blog is I guess a social experiment, a way of me being able to see how I progress in life! A benchmark of sorts so in a years time I can look back and see how far I’ve come. It will be a no holds barred look into my life and how I plan on getting back on the straight and narrow!

Some goals that I will hopefully be able to acheive by my birthday in October:

• I need a job, I’ve been virtually unemployed since I returned from a 6 month holiday in Australia in October 2007.
• I need to pay of my $1000 overdraft.
• I would like to buy a car, preferably a Toyota MR2 I just think they are sexy little things.
• I hope that I will be well on my way to have moved or be moving out of my parents house.
• I will have applied to the Media Arts photography course at the Waikato institute of Technology

I’ve left my CV with a local job recruitment agency so If I don’t hear back from them within a days time I will call them again and ask them whats going on.

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Cheers

Sean