On Saturday, October 20, we celebrated Richard’s Birthing Day. Here is the menu that he selected:

• Rib eye steaks.

These steaks were 1.5 inches of manly love. Served with horseradish. These steaks were awesome.  I should probably comment on the proper method of cooking steaks.  First of all, you must grill them (all Men grill).  I prefer propane – charcoal is just too much of a pain.  I get a little smoke action going by placing wood chips (hickory) in an aluminum foil packet.  Heat the grill to the maximum temperature.  Place the steaks on the grill and watch them constantly.  Flip them and move as needed to deal with flair ups.  Pull the steaks from the main heat when the outside looks done.  Turn the grill to low and finish until done (use a meat thermometer).  I greatly prefer medium rare.

On Saturday, October 13, we celebrated Desiree’s birthing day. And since it was her day, she got to pick out the menu:

• Hamburgers stuffed with blue cheese and bacon.

For 2.5 pounds of hamburger, I used 1 pound of bacon. I decided to max out the blue cheese by stuffing the burger with a traditional Stilton and then serving the burger with a double cream blue cheese. The result was most satisfactory.

On Sunday, September 16, we celebrated Matthew Togami’s birthing day. Since Matt is a fine 49er fan, we decided that it was good and proper to consume a manly meal while watching the Detroit Lions travel to the Bay Area to take on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football.  The Niners played very well and they won (27 – 19), check it out here.