Guess what? This is my 61st day of being vegan. It is as much of a surprise to me as it would be to people who know me. Why you say? Well, I started out my career as a chef. I have eaten A LOT of meat in my life. I have cooked even more meat than I have eaten. I have savoured every mouthful, loved every roast duck, blue steak, suckling pig and lamb roast. Drooled over meat pies, barbeque chicken and calamari rings. I have been known to ridicule and serve up crap to vegetarians and the dreaded vegans in restaurants that I worked in.
But now I am changing. Sometimes my brain hurts when I think of the enormity of my new lifestyle choice. Gosh, I have become the person I once despised!
Come and visit me as my weeks become months, and months become years. I am dying to share the amazing food I am now creating. This is food that comes guilt-free (excepting the occasional calorie). This is going to be a place for recipes, info on vegan food stuffs, restaurant, film and book reviews, testimonials from my guinea pigs at work, and most likely anecdotes about wearing my shoe on the other foot nowadays.
I am predicting that some people will need to restrain their tongues from licking the screen. Stay tuned!
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This is so funny. Luke (my husband) used to be the same, he would come home from work complaining about the vegetarians who expected special treatment and asking if it would be really all that bad just to serve them minestrone soup made out of chicken stock. He used to claim bacon as his deity and relish in cooking up offal but now he too is vegan.
ReplyDeleteI always meet people who say they could NEVER be vegan and I always smile quietly to myself and think "we all thought that about ourselves! Believe me!".. anyway, I'm rambling and I should be packing! Loving the blog Jo!
Oh thank you so much! I am stoked to have you as a reader! It is pretty fun thinking up things to cook and taking photos. Food is my deity. Bacon is good, but not-bacon is a fair compromise.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the packing! If you are ever in Perth you and Bare-chested Chef should come to mine for a feed :)
Oh absolutely! That sounds Fab! Hopefully we'll get the chance to visit sometime next year, I have to head over to see Rachel's children again before they are old enough to drink!
ReplyDeletePS: I think we did meet before.. at the loft one time!