About Us

CookinFools.com is an offshoot of our first website: GrillinFools.com. Both sites use the same basic premise of, “Step-by-step, picture-by-picture, foolproof instructions,” so you don’t make the thousands of mistakes we have made over the years. While we love to cook outdoors, there are just some days where it is just too hot or too cold for anyone to want to stand outside for an extended period of time. We focus on foods that the followers of GrillinFools.com are interested in from copious amounts of chicken wings to the comfort food recipe on a frigid winter night. 

 

The primary Cookin’ Fools are Scott Thomas and his father Greg. A little about the two of us. We both live in the St. Louis metropolitan region. We have both been cooking for decades. We both love Cardinals baseball and Blues hockey.

Scott and Greg about to judge their first Jack Daniels Invitational Barbecue Contest in Lynchburg Tennessee

What we Aren’t

But to truly explain who we are, we have to explain who we aren’t:

  • We aren’t trained chefs.
  • We don’t own a restaurant and have never worked in one.
  • We don’t cater (well, normally we don’t, but have done so a handful of times).
  • We don’t profess to be experts on pretty much anything**

**If you have a better way of doing something, please let us know because we love to learn. Just don’t be an asshole about it.

While Scott and Greg are the two primaries, there are lots of folks that will be contributing to this website.

Other Players

Scott’s wife will be sharing many of the amazing dishes she feeds to our family of six. We will also leverage her mother, Maurmi, for some of her signature dishes. You can also check out the antics of Colleen and Maurmi on their TikTok feed, just be ready to laugh. 

Scott’s mom (Greg’s wife) will also be a source of material and has appeared in one of the first posts, this Easy Chicken Pot Pie recipe:

Mimis Pot Pies

We will also pull out timeless recipes from grandmothers and great grandmothers recipe boxes and cookbooks they relied upon decades and decades ago and do our best to breathe new life into them. We will also post the latest trends in cooking to hopefully cover both the old and the new. Think Cheeseburger Egg Rolls and Crispy Air Fryer Pork Belly. 

Two other contributors include friends Brad and Evan. More on those two once I get some head shots of those knuckleheads and some recipes published. 

These are those cheeseburger egg rolls from Brad

Cooking Gadgets

Also, we will be cooking with many different gadgets like the obvious (stove and oven) but also the air fryer, instapot and the timeless crockpot (or is it crock pot or slow cooker – it will be all three for SEO purposes). We might make a pork shoulder or ribs in the crockpot, which will rile up some of the grilling crowd, but also soul warming soups, stews and pot roasts.

Three bean chili

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Why Would we Put ‘Fools’ in the Title?

The third definition of “Fool” in Merriam Webster is someone with a fond propensity for something. So think dancing fool or singing fool. In order to be a Grillin’ Fool, one first has to be a Cookin’ Fool because I’ve never met anyone who could bring the heat on the grill that couldn’t also do it inside on the stove.