The Chicago Guys

I was thinking this morning as I was cooking how cool it was when Tim “the tool man” Taylor has the Man’s Kitchen on Home Improvement.

Check out the ultimate “Man’s Kitchen,” according to Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and Al Borland from Home Improvement. It’s got everything today’s man needs: vegetable pantry of beans and potatoes, super powered “macrowave,” butcher, drink dispensers (beer, root beer, and Pepto-Bismol at your fingertips), and more. It’s even self cleaning!

Here are some other funny videos to other Man rooms in the house.

One of the coolest things to happen to gaming since multiplayer and the totally useful Vitality Sensor is the addition of online content. One of the hardest things is the addition of payment methods for it. Each console now has its own pricing and point structure, and each has its own difficulty level. After wondering why each works the way it does, and a little research, this is what I came up with. Read more…

Anyone who spends any significant amount of time with me knows that I’m a scotch drinker. I’m not usually a Glenlivet drinker, but recently I heard that Glenlivet is releasing a new, American-exclusive vintage – the Nàdurra Triumph 1991 – that sounds too damn good: non-chill filtered and bottled at full strength, with hints of apple, pear and wood. Yum.

It’s a limited release, so if you’re at all interested, I’d get it now. If you’ve tried it, or have any other good drinks we should try, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Before the BBQ experts grill me, let me say I know how to smoke food and this is not true smoking, but it is much quicker and easier and still provides some great flavor.

Now that I’ve taken care of the disclaimer, let me share with you my way of smoking chickens on the grill with minimal set up or prep time.

Supplies you’ll need:

Foil pans (larger enough to fit under chickens and small enough to fit on grill and shut lid)

Wood chips I like hickory, but mesquite or apple would work fine

Fruit (oranges, lemons, limes, apples)

Chickens

Fresh Rosemary

Salt

Pepper

Paprika

Clean your chicken and pat dry. Take the citrus and slice thin to have enough pieces to fit under breast skin. Cut remaining citrus plus the apples into chunks. Place one orange slice under the skin of each breast. Depending on the size also put a slice of lime and lemon under skin as well. Take a sprig of rosemary and put into cavity of bird. Then add a couple chunks of apple, orange, lime and lemon and put inside cavity. All remaining fruit, along with wood and additional rosemary should be put into foil pans. Season skin of chicken with salt, pepper and paprika.

Bring foil pans to grill and place on first rack. Have heat on medium. Fill the pans with water after on grill (it’s much easier than trying to carry filled with water!) Close lid and allow water to get hot. This will start releasing the flavors of the wood and fruit. Then place your chickens on the rack above the pans. 4lb chickens should take about 1-1/2 to 2 hours to cook. Check the internal temperature and make sure it’s at 165 degrees and juices run clear. Remove, from grill, remove fruit slices from under skin, slice and serve. When pans on grill are cooled down, dispose of.

Almost done. Yum!

A moist, flavorful chicken every time! Please share your suggestions or thoughts.

This is too good. A friend just forwarded an e-mail featuring this Facebook misstep by an unfortunate woman over-40 (who I just realized is listed as engaged… interesting.) The next time I hear someone say that they “just don’t get this social media thing,” I’ll have to laugh on the inside…

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This post was originally posted on my personal blog. I promise original content here in the near future!

If you’re not familiar with shaving your face, which I’d expect some of you may not be, let me tell you that it’s one of the most tedious aspects of being a man.

I realize that might come very close to stating that life as a male is pretty easy, but let’s not forget that we do have to navigate the intricacies of you women once we’re done shortening the hair on our chinny chin chin. We still have to figure out what it is you want to hear when you ask us questions we think we know the answer to.

That being said, shaving is a pain in the butt, but in college I was lucky enough to get a free Gillette Mach 3 Razor and the course of my shaving woes was forever changed.

I think Gillette (warning: do not click that link unless you LOVE Flash) may have given every single adolescent male a free Mach 3 Razor ten years ago because they knew that these things were the crack cocaine of shaving. I mean, one day your sliding a disposable razor across your chin and then next day you’re wiping the hair off your face with a soft laundered cloth that happens to have three razors built into it. Gillette probably doesn’t want you to know this, but you didn’t even need shaving cream anymore.

The thing was perfect. I think you could actually ask your facial hair to go away if you owned one.

Now granted, for the next ten years I was begrudgingly buying replacement blades which cost more than the outfit I’d put on after shaving, but that razor lasted me ten years, no joke. It lasted four dob kits (where does that word come from, anyway?) and five residences. Every girl I have kissed since freshman year in college reaped the benefit of that razor.

Until it disappeared on me about two months ago and I went through the same thing I went though when I stopped playing competitive soccer and my cleats wore out. The Do Not Replace Syndrome that’s founded in something you’ve taken for granted for longer than you can remember. Do people BUY razors these days? Once free, always free, no?

And please don’t tell me people are falling for the FUSION. Five blades is totally ridiculous.

So here I am, pushing thirty years old and in an all out battle with facial hair without a suitable weapon. I am not joking when I tell you that I was commuting home today on a bus, thinking that although I really haven’t blatantly asked for anything from the Gods of Blog, and I really haven’t received anything in return (besides some effing awesome new friends, sidenote), if they gave me one wish I think I might wish for a Mach 3 Razor.

At which point I realized that my aspirations could probably be raised.