Does your man love to cook? Does he love chicken?

I love to cook, I've said that before. I do the cooking for my family. And I love chicken. I cook chicken in just about every way I can, my favorite is probably roasted. Lately I've discovered corn fed chicken. Yum.

There are some wonderful chicken recipes around, you could spend your whole life trying to cook them all and only scratch the surface.

And of course there's all sorts of things that are wonderful to use to baste, stuff, marinate in and so on. Including such wonderful things as beer. Beer is a fine ingredient for some hot chicken recipes.

Today I was looking around Chefs Catalogue, one of my favorite sites for all things cooking, and came across the Vertical Chicken Beer Roaster which grabbed my attention.

Fill the cylinder with beer, (or something else yummy like a fruit juice, or use your imagination) and put the chicken over it and roast.

Maybe put some great spices on the cylinder and the outside of the chicken if you'd like to spice it up a little. Read more

Do fragrances make a good gift for a man?

You love nice fragrances, perfumes are wonderful things. And he seems to like it on you too. But would he like it if you gave one to him for a gift?

Good question, and one with many different answers I suppose, depending on the man.

However I do think it's true that many men do like perfumes to wear, both for themselves to wear and for their women.

I should state my own interest here. I have a perfume that I wear from time to time, and I quite enjoy it. It's only from time to time, I choose the occasion, it's not something I do every day. My wife likes the fragrance and so do I.

It's an entirely individual thing, not all men would wear a perfume, many wouldn't even consider it, no matter how much they liked the fragrance, if they admitted to it. Read more

The classic bomber jacket of the second world war is an icon amongst mens clothing. Now you can dress him in one.

The bomber jacket is one of the most well known of mens jackets. The classic A2 bomber jacket was first issued to US pilots in 1931 and was used right throughout the second world war. It was so popular that it was reissued to pilots again by the air force in 1987.

Now you can dress him in a classic A2 bomber jacket made by the exact same manufacturer that makes them for pilots now. It looks great and it's a fine birthday gift idea for a man who loves his tradition. Or perhaps a Christmas gift for a cold Christmas. He'll love it.

A shell of French lambskin and a lining with 2 American flags embroidered on and the message "The nation salutes you" just like the real pilots.

It looks hot and it's a classic.

Or, if the weather is too hot where you live and a leather jacket really isn't practical because it's going to be too hot to wear, how about a classic reproduction of the bomber jacket in cotton? A lightweight bomber jacket.

During the war pilots in the Pacific theatre of operations asked local tailors to create a jacket that was a copy of the classic bomber jacket but was more suitable to hotter conditions. These tailors created the classic cotton copy of the bomber jacket and this is it. Read more

A sauna isn't quite as expensive as you'd expect.

I love a good sauna. I do have to say that given a choice I'd go for an infrared sauna, the traditional ones are ok until the temperature is cranked up, then I find it a bit too hot for my liking.

Women love saunas, but so do men. And there's so many good reasons to do so. A good session in the sauna can leave you feeling great. Refreshed, relaxed, de-stressed and just all round on top of the world.

And there seems to be quite some evidence that sauna use over the longer term is very good for you too.

So why not give your man a sauna for a gift? There's lots of ways to do it.

Of course you could buy him a sauna. They can be used in the home or the garden, although if it's in the home there are some issues with installation, so don't just buy one to see if he can work out how to install it.

My preference is an infrared sauna. They work at lower temperatures than steam saunas, and don't quite leave you gasping for air as a really hot steam sauna does. They are much more comfortable.

And you can get an infrared sauna much much cheaper than a steam sauna. You can buy portable infrared saunas that pack up and can be taken wherever he wants to go. They are made of lightweight material and are easily tranportable. Now you can't do that with a steam sauna.

And it's not that hard to build one, you can buy kits. So if your man is a handyman and would like his own sauna check out some of the infrared sauna kits around. A great way to get him a sauna at a much lower price. Read more

There's lots of mens gift ideas to choose from - at up to 50% off.

The best gifts store on the net, Hammacher Schlemmer, have just advised me that they are having a huge sale.

They have some stunning gift ideas there for mens gifts, or gifts for everyone really. I always love it when I go there to look around to see what they've got now.

And you can find some gifts bargains there now, at up to 50% off. And if you're looking for some cheap gift ideas then you can't go past a Hammacher Schlemmer sale.

Of course you may not need a gift for him at the moment, but you will at some time soon, so take the chance.

Of course the best way to buy gifts bargains is to buy them when they're bargains. If you wait then it's usually the case that once you want them they're no longer bargains because the sale is finished. So jump in quick and grab them while they're a bargain, then squirrel them away somewhere until you need them.

If you go to their home page you won't find the sale, you need to have a special link. If you want to check out the bargains then click the red ad below. That will take you there.

It's his birthday. You're stuck for great ideas. His eyesight isn't so good.

I know exactly what it's like because I'm like that. I used to have wonderful eyesight and now it just isn't what it once was. When I read I need glasses and a good table lamp.

So your man is the same. His eyesight isn't what it once was. He loves to read, especially in bed, and he needs some help now. Here's a great idea for a gift for a man like me, a man who loves to read but struggles a bit now.

The The Two Page Illuminating Book Light. Now book lights aren't exactly new, and I've had one before. But they also weren't very good. Modern lighting technology though, including the advent of LEDs, has greatly improved how they work.

15 hours of good white light from 2 AA batteries. Now that's a book light. Easy to use and light, which is important as a heavy book light takes away some of the pleasure of the reading.

So get him back into pleasurable reading again, and give him a high quality LED book light for his birthday. Get to Hammacher Schlemmer to get it, just search book light in their search bar. Read more