Cooking Monkfish

I just tried the monkfish recipe from my roasting cook book tonight. It was a very interesting couple of days.. Firstly, like usual, I photocopied my ‘menu’ and asked Carol to get all the stuff. Well, Mel did the shopping for us this week, not Carol. Carol’s used to me saying ‘if you can’t find something, find something close.’ Mel’s not. Mel gets to the supermarket and says ‘do you have monkfish?’... [Read More...]

Using WordPress in an SVN environment

So you have an SVN repo and you’re trying to push out wordpress to a web server. Congrats to you for not allowing cowboy users to go in and muck around with code w/o the ability to fully restore a website, but you’ve also just shot yourself in the foot because wordpress allows you to do all sorts of crazy cool stuff like uploading themes, plugins, images, etc. I had the same problem to deal with. The best bet I think is just to have a... [Read More...]

My first cooking post

As many of my friends know, I really like to cook. I don’t know why I never really talk about it to anybody but my wife, so I figured I’d let out a few blog posts on the matter. Firstly, let me set the stage. With respect to cooking, I’m just a normal guy , as amateur as they come. By no means can I say I can really cook. Like everything else we do in life, it’s all about knowing the basics and that’s something that I... [Read More...]