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When you are ready to spice up your weekends then The Tabasco Country Store is the place for you. The Tabasco country store is prepared to dress your man feed him and take him to the golf course.

They say a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, if that is true, his heart will explode with joy. Most men like to barbecue and consider themselves the master of the grill.

The Cookin up the Blues® Cookbook offers real recipes from the real blues masters. Blues legends like Buddy Guy, Irma Thomas, Tinsley Ellis and others share their favorite TABASCO® recipes. Color photos of the dishes and interviews with the artists are included. Louisiana and the rest of the south are famous for the Blues, Barbecue and one heck of a hurricane party. This cookbook will make your stomach sing, your heart sizzle and your corkscrew tail wag. Cooking up the blues is necessary for any sizzling chef.

Good old-fashioned Cajun cooking in messy and you don’t want to get any sauce on the new cookbook. Te Tabasco Country Store has thought of everything. The Chef Recipe Book Holder with TABASCO® Cookbook is made of stylish metal. The stand will securely hold your cookbook while you follow one of the great recipes found in your spicy hot collection.

Make every night a hot and spicy treat!

Technology has truly taken over. How many times have you or a loved one tried to open a bottle of wine and even with the best of intentions the cork has drowned in its own bottle. Consider the number of corks that were separated and then drowned. There have been several wine openers or corkscrews that left plenty to be desired and the person using it feeling the agony of being defeated by an inanimate object in front of thirst friends and family.

Built NY has come up with the most clever and handsome of all corkscrews. It boasts

• Includes ratcheting handle, foil hook, 2 screwbits storage container
• Ergonomic cast zinc handle
• Stainless steel foil hook nests in handle
• 2 interchangeable stainless steel screwbits for pulling any cork
• 1-78 inch wire screwbit for older, longer corks

The corkscrew comes in attractive Fire Engine Red chrome or a Black Chrome. If you are a wine lover or you need the perfect gift for the wine lover in your life, you need The Ratchet Magnum.

Here are the top Five reasons not to buy the corkscrew:

You haven’t found the cork on the box yet
You don’t think there is a cork under the twist off cap
Jug wine has an easy grip cork already in the bottle
Wine Coolers require a can opener
Your favorite wine is “Do your parents really have to come over again?”

Cheers to you and yours! Everyone wants to have something of their own and a drink is a great place to start. Round Table Gifts has a beautiful set of red wine glasses that proudly boasts one initial.

The beautifully crafted set of glassware will accommodate even the most discriminating of drinkers. Each glass is able to hold 19 ounces of your favorite red wine or since they are yours any other liquid you like.

If wine is not your drink of choice The Round Table has perfectly pleasing pilsner glasses that don’t skimp on stature or class. The pilsner glass comes with a choice of four medallions that proudly display up to ten characters.

Still if top shelf is what fills your glass and warms your heart, Roundtable has a fabulous collection of glass tumblers. Each tumbler or set can be engraved and will complete your bar collection nicely.

Just in case you are indecisive about what to put in your glass, try these recipes out:

Scotch Milk Punch

2 oz. Scotch
6 oz. Milk
1 tsp. Powdered Sugar
Shake with ice and strain into a collins glass. Garnish with nutmeg.

The Whiskeyburger

Stir well with cracked ice:
3 oz ground-chuck-infused whiskey*
2 tsp tomato syrup*
1/4 tsp mustard bitters*
Strain into small old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a dill pickle!

Another era has ended! This year Yankee Stadium will be a thing of the past. Of course, the Yankees themselves will still be in tact but the stadium is going the way of all things. The House that Ruth built will be no more. The saying goes that you can’t take it with you, but the demolition team at the Stadium are among the luckiest guys ever. I am certain some of them grew up there, going to games with their dads and granddads. The season ticket holders that looked forward to seeing their favorite peanut seller yelling down the aisles, the smell of hot dogs and beer, and the roar of the crowd will all be moving elsewhere.

Yankees fans are a special breed, their memories will not easily extinguished or their loyalty shaken. As Father’s Day fast approaches in particular on the East coast isn’t it time to give Dad or any other Yankees fan a piece of history.

Amazon.com is offering a limited edition replica of Yankee Stadium. There are only 4750 mini replicas available and the n when they are gone, just like the real Yankee Stadium they will be unavailable.

These beautiful replicas offer:
• Fans in the stadium that are painted in the colors of the team,
• Sculptures individually numbered to 4,750,
• Gold-tone metal plate identifies the stadium,
• Collector card included,
• Dimensions: 6″ x 5″ x 3″

Give the man who taught you how to play ball his own ballpark. This one gift guarantees a home run!

Two guys walk into a bar and what is the first thing they ask for… a woman to get them a drink! Those days are long gone at least when those guys are at the BBQ or by the pool.

There have forever been jokes about how men want to be waited on hand and foot, and would die of thirst rather than go to the fridge to grab a drink. Thanks to The Sharper Image you now have the capacity to save lives and create a self sufficiency of sorts.

As summer nears we all want to ready to be outside chillin and grillin with friends and family. As we all spend time with our families we don’t want to miss a moment of the fun or action going back and forth to the fridge.

The ultimate in chilled beverages can rive right to you. It’s a cross between an RC car and a cooler. Sharper Image Remote-Controlled Cooler is not only cool but priced to party

• “Ice chest” cooler steers by wireless remote.
• Drives on four wheels over a 30-foot range.
• Chills two 6-packs.
• Collapses to 6 1/2 inches deep for compact storage.
• Runs on one 9V and six C batteries, sold separately.

Whether your favorite six pack is bottled or canned it will be at your beck and call.

Summer is only just beginning. The heat is on the grill and it is time to stock up on cool gadgets that turn your weekends at home into weekend getaways. Brookstone has long offered an amazing assortment of fun and unique gadgets for even the tough to please crowd.

This summer as you drink wine by the pool or have the man in your life pour you a glass, make sure that it is set to exactly the right temprature and it stays there. How do you accomplish this? What a great question! Brookstone has thought of everything including the Wine Chiller

The Wine Chiller offers settings from warm to cool and accomodates all types of red, white, and champagne wines. Backlit LED screen displays current and target serving temperatures. Aluminum reservoir accommodates most wine and champagne bottle sizes. Converts from Fahrenheit to Celsius with a push of a button.

If you are a wine drinker or you owe one a gift the Wine Chiller is the ticket.

It is no secret that traveling since 9/11 has included many extra precautions. I have since started wearing sandals to the airport in order to appease both the security people and the aggravated travelers in line behind me that still find the security precautions and the request to remove their shoes both bothersome and surprising.
Many women have been forced to leave cosmetics behind or mail them home, thus giving men an excuse to take the rugged vacation look to a new extreme. Fret no more ladies, do you miss his soft, supple, fresh skin?
Menscience.com has heard your pleas and created a travel kit that is full of luxurious items for him, very pleasing to her, and appeasing to the TSA. What more can a girl ask for her man? Only that he use the items in the stunning kit while spoiling her on a tropical island.
The kit includes- Travel-sizes of Menscience.com’s most popular products; scientifically developed for men and free of fragrance, dyes and irritants to provide the highest levels of quality and results.
Contents:
• Advanced Shave Formula - 2 oz
• Daily Face Wash - 2 fl oz
• Advanced Face Lotion - 2 fl oz
• Post-Shave Repair - 2 fl oz
• Daily Shampoo - 2 fl oz
• Advanced Deodorant - 2.6 oz
• Advanced Lip Protection - 0.5 oz
• Night Sleep Mask
• Advanced Ear Plugs
• Personal Travel Bag

You can order the kit at MenScience for a reasonable price. In fact it is so reasonable you might convince him to stay away an extra night or two! In addition, to being foot loose and fancy free, in no time at all your man will have chosen his favorite items from the kit, for use all the time. For more about what the TSA allows on a plane visit TSA on the web.

Okay Ladies, so during football season you are a sports widow and a slave to the kitchen. Poker night starts the trend all over again, and don’t even start with the playoffs or World Series! Are there more hungry mouths in your house than ants at a picnic?

There is a solution. A gift that brings joy to everyone is the Pizza of the month club. The perfect answer to feeding the guys during Monday night football. We are not talking about your average pizza chain pizza. No calling a pizza place filled with underwhelmed teenagers with no idea what a good pizza tastes like, no more staring at the clock wondering how long 45 minutes really is in pizza delivery time and most of all no cardboard like crust oozing with to much sauce and not enough cheese.

Pizza of the month club offers pizza made fresh with gourmet ingredients, frozen immediately, and delivered right to your home or office. Each month your Pizza of the month recipient will receive two deep-dish pizzas and thin crust pizza. They will also receive a newsletter discussing key pizza topics and offering discounts on additional products. Among the pizza flavors are Italian Beef Pizza and shrimp Teriyaki Pizza.

Possibly the best feature of the Pizza of the Month Club is there are no commitments you can join for one month or ongoing until you decide to stop. This wonderfully edible gift for him is really the ultimate never wonder what to serve during Monday night football, poker night, the playoffs, the World Series, or other guy’s night in, again for you gift.

Bon Appétit!

I remember how I learned to drive. In my father’s prized sedan. He wouldn’t let me tough his sporty MG. I clipped a few curbs, but I did all right. I remember my first accident. It was a gorgeous sunny day in spring of my 18th year. ANYWAY, it wasn’t completely my fault, and no one got hurt. It was just a little mash-up that involved a pick-up truck, and a squirrel trying to make it back to its home tree. There was also an abandoned birthday cake in the road, when all was said and done. Long story. Anyway, the Road Tested Chair brought a lot of memories back– it’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a chair. But not just any chair– it’s made from an authentic, retired New York City Walk/Don’t Walk sign. The sign really works! The seat can be turned on or off by remote control, and the sturdy legs rest on self-leveling feet. The seat is made of glazed resin– it’s a solid feeling when you sit down. You can get your chair all gussied up in a fresh coat of new paint, or keep the dings and scrapes and scratches in tact. Now, this is what I call ART.

They’re phasing out plastic bags at the grocery store. The world’s going eco-crazy. Soon we’ll be carrying our groceries to the car IN OUR HANDS.

I saw on the news how some kid wired his bedroom with solar power, then got his dad to do the whole house, NOW he’s going to back up a truck to the sun and hook up his school, maybe even the town. I’m still trying to remember to turn off lights when I leave a room. Baby steps. I recycle, remember? Anyway, I am trying to find new ways to shrink my utility bill. . . I mean, my carbon footprint. Summer is coming on, and with at least 100 days of sunshine, ahead, I figure I’ll try harnessing some sun power of my own, which my wife will appreciate since she’s all eco-momma these days. She set up a cistern outside to catch rainwater for the garden. I mean, (secretly) I can’t let her show me up like that. So I got a bunch of solar patio lights, to line the garden. And I found a solar-lit patio umbrella for the deck. The umbrella stores buckets of sunshine all day. At night, the umbrella, with its 24 LED lights built into the spreader rods provides up to eight hours of soft light. It even has an on/off switch. I mean I don’t need flood lights when I’m hanging out on the patio. Not gonna be reading War and Peace out there, just need a little light to the enjoy the late evenings with my wife after we put the kids down. It’ll be pretty romantic. And, think about it– no electrical cords to trip over, no miners have to go into the coal mine to light my patio. Now I don’t have to feel as bad about powering up the margarita maker. Hmmm margaritas.