Getting Back to Basics

March 3, 2010

I’ve been trying to make this year all about increasing my cooking knowledge and have been reading a lot of different books, and one that is giving me some “aha!” moment is “James Beards Theory and Practice of Good Cooking.” I got one of the original versions (signed) from my Dad for Christmas and was [...]

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fish baked in salt from jamie oliver

October 28, 2009

sometimes its the simplest meals, like this fish baked in salt recipe from Jamie Oliver. I’ve always had mixed emotions about Jamie Oliver – on the one hand i can never really tell if he is for real, but on the other hand, he puts out some great recipes with simple flavors that pack a [...]

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how to make a bacon explosion

July 17, 2009

i’ve been a very, very bad blogger. even though i still cook a lot, eat out, stay up on the latest food news, and love love love food, i have been extremely bad about keeping up with sharing it all on codcheeks. i am hoping to change all that and i figured if i was [...]

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thanksgiving 2008 menu

November 26, 2008

i haven’t been cooking as much as i would like the past few months and what little cooking i have been doing, i haven’t been writing about. thanksgiving has me pretty motivated though, so the goal is to try to catalog my thanksgiving kitchen escapades and get codcheeks back on track! i spent the last [...]

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Farmers’ Markets in Louisville, Kentucky

June 25, 2008

Since Brendan is taking a break from food blogging, I decided to step-in with an update. We are now entering summer-time in Louisville. It has been lovely so far, not too humid or hot (except for a couple of weeks in late May). We discovered that Louisville has a few farmers markets during the growing [...]

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now with more salt!

March 21, 2008

i could list a dozen excuses for why this site for all things food has floundered and then come to a grinding halt over the past few months, but who cares really?! it’s time to move forward and start writing about food again! i’m been thinking about getting back on the horse for a few [...]

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Mango’s – South Beach, Miami, FL – Guest Writer

February 27, 2007

Since the Man on the Street is happily married and when he travels for work, he rarely heads out to any restaurants and simply gets room service. However, when I was in Miami a month or so ago, my colleagues happened to head out to great restaurant in South Beach. I suggested that Matt write [...]

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authentic italian episode #2: lamb and fennel stew

January 27, 2007

so i thought i would be doing one of these authentic italian posts a week, but reality has set in, so, after a delay of too many weeks, here is the only the second post. . . i would love to say there are more to some soon, but i don’t want to lie anymore. [...]

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coco500… again

January 24, 2007

i think i’ve written about coco500 on more than one occasion, and it has officially become my favorite place to eat in san francisco – loretta keller (no relation to thomas) is my new hero. we ate there again last night (our first official dinner without the little one) and had another great meal. the [...]

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pomegranate hell

January 17, 2007

for anyone who has ever tried to extract the seeds from a pomegranate, i ran across a link to this technique on e-gullet. be warned that the page loads up incredible slow, but if you have ever tried to get the seeds from a pomegranate, it is worth the wait.

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