Frat-boy gourmet presents: Manhattan chicken

The idea came to me in a dream,combine Bourbon Chicken and Orange Chicken into a single dish in the model of the Manhattan cocktail; and then I spent about a month dicking around trying to get the sauce right. but here it is

Ingredients:

• 4 chicken breasts
• 3 oz soy sauce
• 2 tsp dried minced onion
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup bourbon
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 4 dashes angostura bitters
• 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar (manliest of vinegars!)
  
• 2/3 cup orange marmalade
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 teaspoon sage
• 1/4 tsp black pepper

Instructions

• combine soy sauce, bourbon, half of the orange juice, brown sugar, onions, bitters and garlic in a large baking dish
• place chicken in dish and cover for 4-12hrs (longer is better [that's what she said])
• preheat oven to 325 degrees (Celsius my backwards non-metric friends)
• uncover and place chicken in oven, baste every ten minutes or so
• after an hour place marmalde, vinegar, oil, sage, pepper, and the other half of the oj in a saucepan and stir over a low heat until smooth and thick (~2minutes).
• cover chicken in orange sauce leaving some 1/3 of it aside for after everything is done baking and cook for another 20-30 minutes
• remove pan from oven and coat with the remaining sauce

If you're the sort that cares for presentation (pansy!) i'd suggest a slice of orange and maraschino cherry on top of each breast.

Does it taste much like a Manhattan? not really. Is it fucking delicious? hells yeah.

SCIENCE!

It is possible to drop a cat so it won't land on its feet. Just hold it upside-down and drop it from height of 6 inches or lower.



Gods, I'm bored these days.

Fratboy Gourmet: Philly Cheese Steak Casserole

Disclaimer: I have never been to Philadelphia, so I have no idea how its authentic street meat is supposed to taste.

Further Disclaimer: Fuck Authenticity! This about awesomeness.

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 2 green peppers, sliced thin
• 1 large onion, sliced thin
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 3/4 tsp black pepper
• 2 1/2 lbs steak sliced thin (lots of thin slicing, hope you've got decent knives)
• 5 Tbsp Margarine
• 1/4 c flour
• 3/4 loaf calabrese bread
• 1 bottle of beer (amber ales work best)
• 2 tsp hot sauce
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1 1/2 cups milk
  
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 c shredded Montery Jack cheese
• 1 c shredded Cheddar cheese
• 8 oz sliced provolone cheese

Fuck that's a lot of ingredients but this really isn't that hard

Instructions

• tear the loaf into inch cubes and lay at the bottom of 9x13 baking dish
• preheat oven to 350 degrees C
  
• heat the oil in a large skillet/frying pan/wok
  
• toss steak in the pan, brown for about 5 minutes
• Add onions and half of the pepper and garlic
• saute until steak and veggies are cooked through, then spread across the bread cubes
• in a small pot melt the butter and whisk in flour
• pour beer and stir until smooth
• stir in remaining pepper and garlic add the paprika, onion powder, hot sauce and Worcestershire
• As the concoction thickens add the milk
• Add Jack and Cheddar and stir until melted
• Pour sauce over the stuff in the pan, top with provolone slices
• warm in oven, uncovered, until cheese melts

Defiance of trends

Using the formula of First Initial, First Syllable the following canadian prime ministers have good rapper names:

• J-Mac
• A-Mac
• C-Tup
• R-Bed
• J-Dief
• L-Pea
• P-Tru
• J-Turn
• B-Mul
• K-Cam

End of the Year lists can suck it!

A proposal (not sure on the degree of modesty)

Freshly flush with xmas cash, I began looking for deals on video games; including my fuel for my addiction to plastic instrument-based rhythm gaming. Looking at the most recent entries Band Hero and Lego Rock Band to realize that between both games there were about ten songs I liked and around one hundred songs of varying degrees of crap. As I pondered this I realized the same thing about the on-disc songs of the games I own (Sturgeon's Law triumphs again!), but that 90% of the songs I had bought as DLC were awesome.

So he's the proposal: next major iteration of each franchise (GH6, RB3) ships with the no songs on disc, you get the full game engine and all the modes, but no songs just credit to download 60-80 songs from the online store and all the songs you would have put on a disc launching as DLC on the same day, allowing the user base to pick and choose what they want, making everyone happy. Or at least make me happy, which is all that really matters.

One more thing...

As a follow-up to the last post, have (select one of the following):
Merry Christmas
Happy Hannukah
Krazy Kwanzaa
Tip-top Tet
Cool Yule
Superb Saturnalia
Awesome Afflux
Bodacious Bhodi Day
Egregious Emperor's Birthday
Lovely Life-day
Hopped-up HumanLight
Extreme Eid al-Adha
Festivus for the Rest of us
Groovy Global Orgasm Day
International Sweater Vestival
Non-Heinous Ninja Day
Majorly sweet Monkey Day
Righteous Regifting Day
Nice Nickanan Night
Cooky Cookie day
Happy New Year!

And all you Atheists out there can enjoy the weather!

An open letter

Dear conservative Christian types,

It the time of year you guys stop uppity about the lack of passages from Exodus in the constitution, and start getting annoyed with the phrase "Happy Holidays" and begin ranting about the increased secularization of this time of year, which used to be all yours. This is not an attempt to marginalize or insult you all (for real, seriously) it's mostly just decent people trying to avoid insulting all the non-christians as the western world becomes increasingly multi-cultural and more and more religions seem to pop up.

On the other hand, I can see how you'd be upset that one group is co-opting one of your biggest festivals of the year, isn't that right guys?
Irony is a bitch, isn't it?