About Me
I am The Average Vegan Dad – welcome to my blog and vegan recipe site! I am so glad you’re here! Many people I know make comments about recipe sites – “Just get me to the darn recipe please!”. Do you know what I mean? I understand your time is precious and part of my goal is to get you right to the good stuff, so check out some recipes, a couple of my blog posts, and hopefully you will find it was well worth your time! I am your average Midwest guy who just happens to be extremely passionate about eating a plant based diet, cooking great tasting food with big, bold flavors and now sharing my creations with others. I also want you to feel as good as I do, to have the same energy, health, clarity of thought and all the other benefits that come with eating a plant based diet. I want you to enjoy life to the fullest! I am so glad you’re here – please stay and take a look around and if you like what you see – SHARE it! TOGETHER we can make a difference!
MY COOKING
I LOVE TO EAT! There, I got that out of the way. I also love to eat great tasting food with big, bold flavors. Spicy, Garlicy, Savory, Robust with great depth. Sound good! Let me warn you now, I don’t always measure my spices or ingredients. I start with a base and then I just add as I go until I get the big taste I am looking for. I am completely aware that this doesn’t play well on a recipe site so I will do my best to give you solid measurements, but don’t be afraid to add “a little more” because I more than likely will! I will share my best recipes to date and we will learn together. BUT…..if you’re looking for beautiful pictures and long dialogues about how and why each step exists, my motivation for adding each spice or flowing and/or flowery adjectives about the process, there are plenty of those great sites to visit. Like I said before, my thought is your time is short, so let’s get right to the recipes, start cooking and eating great tasting vegan food.
MY MOTIVATION
While I feel strongly in my reasons for choosing a plant based diet, my motivation is to show people that you can eat great food with big flavors without meat and that’s it! If it makes you feel better, improves your health, the environment and the lives of our animal friends I won’t complain. So, if I can convince you to try something on this site or give you a reason to eat a plant based meal for even one day a week = WIN FOR BOTH OF US! If I can convince you to SHARE it with your friends and family = BIGGER WIN!
MY PASSIONS
My family is my biggest passion. I am a proud Husband, Father, Grandfather and dog parent to 3 great dogs. We have 4 adult kids all making their way through life. It is so rewarding to be able to part of each of their journey’s. Cycling is also passion – road, mountain and fat tire in the winter. My goal is to be faster today than I was yesterday and to just enjoy the “RIDE”. I cross train using the Insanity Workouts by BeachBody. If you don’t pay attention to your core you will be sorry! You may also find me in one of the trout streams in the area – I am an extreme amateur at fly fishing, but nothing is more rewarding than getting that trout to rise to your fly – Trust me on that! And yes I “catch and release”.
FAMILY and MORE
My wife and I have 4 kids, a Son in Law (mostly Son), a grand son and 3 dogs. Professionally, I started on the sales floor of a regional sporting goods retailer and I worked my way up to EVP/COO. I have a passion for servant leadership and helping people be the best they can be. Sadly, our business was a casualty of the retail apocalypse which has afforded me the time to really focus on my plant based diet, cooking, cycling, spending time with my dogs and of course, learning how to search for a new career position. My background spans a lot of different areas, operations, merchandising, marketing, distribution, customer service. If you are small business owner I would love to connect to see if I could help your business in any way. Contact me (form at the bottom of the page) and let’s discuss!
KICK OFF
Average Vegan Dad is truly my own little passion project, gaining more and more traction each day. Please share my site with others, connect with me and provide your thoughts via the comment section. I hope you enjoy browsing my site and all of the unique recipes and content I have to offer. Take a look around; perhaps you’ll discover what fuels you as well. Click on the Blog link to learn more about plant based living, more about me, my passions and a lot more. Click on the Recipes link to see what new creations I have added. You can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Read on, enjoy and comment!
