gifts for blokes – the blog about gifts for men

The idea of choosing a wine can be quite intimidating for a lot of blokes. Many blokes love their beer or bourbon and coke but have absolutely no idea about wine. It doesn’t have to be that hard and here are a few tips to make it a whole lot easier for blokes. If you [...]

The last blog posted covered “How To Set The Table Properly” so this post is going to focus on preparing a Mother’s Day meal. This is not as hard as it sounds and can be quick, easy as well as a lot of fun. Here is a simple menu that can make Mother’s Day a [...]

Is your bloke a Masterchef?  Perhaps not? In the spirit of poking some gentle holiday fun at the blokes we love, have a look at this clip.  I would guess that even if your man isn’t a chef, he couldn’t possibly be this bad. When you have finished laughing at his antics, we’d better remind [...]

Was it really a year ago since we covered some of our blog highlights from 2010?  The year seems to have slid by faster than you can say “Gifts For Blokes” but boy did we have plenty of blokey fun along the way.  We introduced plenty of new gifts and even had a competition or [...]

When we saw this book we just had to add it to our store and it is proving to be very popular.  Written by chef Damien Adams, Pub Grub At Home shows how to cook up a Pub Grub classic meal for a family of four for under $10. We all know that most pub [...]

If you can cook with wine then you can certainly cook with beer.  In fact, cooking with beer has probably been done since the heyday of the Egyptian and Greek civilisations, when beer was also made and drunk by the ancients.  And if you love beer as much as you love food then combining the [...]

Spring is upon us, the weather is warming up and inviting you outdoors which means…time to break out the BBQ! Give it a good dusting off, pull out some old recipes, invite a few friends over (does the house need a spring clean first?) and celebrate with a barbecue. You might first like to check that [...]

In the traditional family structure that many of us grew up with, it was unusual for blokes to cook unless it was outdoors on the BBQ. The biggest problem with that is that men were never able to develop skills in the kitchen.  When they moved out of home for the first time or were [...]