CookManFood.com!

Mission Statement – Good food, good friends, a good drunken story, that is how we want everyone to live.  It could be the guys getting together for a football game and enjoying the latest twist on a Turducken, it could be climbing a few 14,000 foot peaks over a weekend and eating bacon wrapped elk bundles stuffed with cheese and mushrooms.  There are many trips and places where the man food philosophy comes into play.  This site will help you learn better ways of cooking other than your noodles with ketchup or your fast food no flavor crap. We all eat three meals a day (sometimes five) we might as well enjoy them all to the fullest.  This site will help teach the trade and craft to do that with ease

We are not professional chefs by any means.  We do not even have history as part of the food industry.  We are just two friends who have a passion for good food.  Throwing together a new entrée or appetizer and cooking for friends and family around the holidays, during sporting events, and parties is what sparked these ideas and our company.  Both coming from a military background and working in the information technology industry, we make time to get together to cook whatever we feel like.  Whether or not we are backpacking in the Rocky Mountains with friends or for Christmas dinner with our family, we are always experimenting and having success by following our gut and keeping it simple. 

Just because we are not in the food industry does not mean that we have not been involved with food for many years.  Todd Youngblood was a chef in the military and although you think of cafeteria food, Todd worked in an environment that allowed him to be creative and serve things beyond the standard menus.  Living in Alaska for a few years, Todd learned how to properly prepare and get his hands on wild game such as caribou and wild seafood such as salmon, crab legs, and halibut.  Dan Mantineo has been cooking since he was 14 as well. Although his origional dream was to go to culinary school and become a professional chef, as a teenager he worked for a local bakery in his home town where he was taught to be creative but after high school found is way into the Navy and into the information technology field.  Dan has always had a knack for cooking and when he and Todd got together for their first few food competitions they won.  Dan and Todd took first place with a few other team members in the local Men who Cook for Women who Wine competition in back to back years.  The first year they attacked appetizers and the second year desserts.  Although desserts was very unorthodox for that competition, they managed to beat out professional chefs from the area thus creating friction at a competition that was suppose to be a charity event and fun.

This site is our way of showing what we have learned about cooking to everyone.  We are always being approached by coworkers and friends on what to make and what to serve with what.  We are amazed to find that some men are afraid of the grocery store or even avoid the kitchen altogether.  This site is made to change all of that.  So, if you have questions or want to know more about a specific area such as sauces, smoking meats, or whatever you think of, just let us know. 

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