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Turn up your speakers for this one. A total RIOT!

Mango salsa is always a good idea.

I found this great recipe on Food TV in Canada. I love its pairing of Cajun blackening seasoning with a fresh, fruity, Caribbean salsa. Your mouth will grow more pleased
with each forkful!

If halibut is too dry of a fish selection for you, I would certainly substitute it with Chilean sea bass or any other moist, light fish. Yum!

Blackened Halibut With Mango Salsa

For the Fish

* 4 x 7 ounce portions of halibut or cod filets with skin on
* 1 1/2 tbsp blackening spice
* 1 tbsp olive oil

Mango Salsa

* 2 x mangoes cubed into ½ inch pieces
* 2 x green onions sliced thinly
* 2 tbsp red onion, chopped fine
* 1 x Thai chili, finely chopped
* 3 tbsp cilantro, chopped roughly
* 2 tbsp red pepper, chopped into ¼ inch cubes
* Juice of 2 limes
* Salt and pepper to taste

Fish Directions
1. Place a large cast iron pan over medium high heat. Allow pan to preheat for 10 minutes. Meanwhile pat fish dry with paper towels and sprinkle with spice rub.

2. Place oil into preheated pan then fish flesh side down. Allow to cook for 1 - 2 minutes or until a nice dark crust has formed on the fish. Carefully flip fish over and place into preheated oven for a further 7 minutes or until desired doneness. Remove from oven and serve with mango salsa.

Mango Salsa Directions
1. Combined all ingredients in a bowl and add season to taste with salt and pepper. Chill mixture in refrigerator for 20 minutes before serving.

This fish would go perfectly served with coconut rice and a carafe of chilled Riesling.

Now THIS is some serious Nuevo Latino eatin’ right here! Sabrosura Restaurant in the Bronx does not play around. I have only heard excellent things about this establishment.

Just another great restaurant to add to my MUST VISIT list.

Check it out!

Shrimp Skewers with Mofongo (mashed sweet plantains with bacon)

Bourbon BBQ Boneless Ribs

Stuffed Salmon with Tostones (flattened, fried plantains)

Mojito-Grilled Chicken with Rice and Beans and Veggies

Caramel Flan

…and my favorite dessert…Tres Leches (three milk cake)

’nuff said.

Sabrosura Restaurant
1200 Castle Hill Avenue
Bronx, NY 10462
(718) 597-1344

Guys, you now have my undivided attention!

Do remember that if you ever feel neglected on my blog, you can always feel free to
surf my Men’s Category to peruse all of the excellent content I’ve stuffed into that category just for you, as well as my blog’s other categories (Hollywood, travel,
luxury, etc.).

Now gentlemen, as for today’s lucky men’s find…let’s explore fine French men’s grooming products by François Rancé!

As for the seller of these essentials, L’aile des Anges has everything you need to get to know François Rancé better!

Per their site…

In 1795, François Rancé, heir to a family of glovemakers-perfumers that were well-known since early 1600, dedicated himself strictly to perfumery. He founded the François Rancé Company in Grasse, France. François soon became the favorite perfumer of Napoleon the Great, the Vanquisher.

Rancé Le Vainqueur For Men

This great fragrance encapsulates a man’s very being - manly, sophisticated, yet elegant. The lady in your life will love it! Rancé Le Vainqueur For Men comes in Spray, Shower Gel, and Boxed Soap - set of six. Imagine citrus combined with the lively scents of ginger and nutmeg…including the sensuousness of jasmine, leather, and iriswood with embracing tones of ambergris. Samples available.

Rancé L’Homme Soap

L’Homme is an anti-stress soap derived from orange leaves. The rich, soft lather gently caresses and cleanses the skin. These handmade, hand-wrapped soaps hold their scent for the lifetime of the soap, and are suitable for even the most sensitive skin types. Rancé has proudly produced fine soaps since 1795. The family’s guarded methods and formulas remain unchanged.

Rancé’s triple-milled, handmade soaps are enriched with pure, natural extracts and cosmetic oils. After the impurities are cooked out of the soap for six days, the formula is pure, and no preservatives are used. The fragrance is then infused into the formula of these long-lasting soaps.

Elegant Grooming for Men Grande Gift Basket

A handsome, crocodile-embossed leather chest holds this distinguished collection of grooming essentials for men. Our Grande size holds everything you need and more to get a good start for the day.

This chest includes: Rancé Energie aftershave balms, hair and body gel, terry-nylon soap pouch with soap, toothbrush, pumice, nail brush, everlasting nail file, massager, net sponge and bath brush, foot cream, Energie aftershave balm, and a zippered travel shoe kit.

Guys, you’d be wise to hop on this one!

GOOD GRAVY - is the Vanquish S by Aston Martin ever a bewitchingly motor-licious creature! This post isn’t meant to be all that deep and profound. All I have to say is…

You got room in there for one more?

For all of you new Aston Martin groupies, here is the best resource I’ve unearthed thus far for connecting with other Aston Martin owners and fans…

The Aston Martin Owners Club (AMOC) says on its site, “You do not need to be an owner - we welcome anyone with a keen interest in Aston Martins.”

The operative word, though, is “keen.” This means don’t go over there actin’ a fool calling the vehicle an Aston Martini.

Oh ASHton…I mean, Aston… Oh, how I adore you!

Soon we’ll be together and no one will separate us, my love!

I deserve some sort of reward for sleuthing this one out for all of you cupcake enthusiasts. I have finally found a bakery that ships frosted cupcakes!

Yes, I’m a genius, I know.

You’d think this would be a simple proposition: You like cupcakes. You see some
frosted ones that you’d like to inhale. You order. They’re shipped to you. BUT NO!
Not even Sprinkles cupcakes will ship!

Introducing Mrs. Beasley’s Shippable Cupcakes!

Per the Mrs. Beasley’s site:
“Each Beasley shippable cupcake is handmade, weighs approximately 4.5 ounces, and has ½ inch of frosting evenly distributed on the cupcake. Each Beasley shippable cupcake is topped with a special goody or ornament.

The Beasley shippable cupcakes are available in special 6 or 12 packs and in a variety of seasonal and themed boxes and towers. They are packed in dry ice so that the frosting arrives cold and firm. The cupcakes should be refrigerated upon receipt and brought to room temperature for consumption. For a special treat, place the cupcake in the microwave for 5-7 seconds and you’ll have a restaurant quality dessert.

Please note that this product is shipped with dry ice and therefore special shipping rules apply. Due to the hot weather, Overnight Shipping is only available. Overnight shipping can be done anytime Monday through Thursday. Please see our disclaimer for more details. Cupcakes cannot be shipped to P.O. Boxes.”

But it’s THESE unshippable mamma-jammas that I want!

Sorry Strawberry Colossal cupcake with bits of strawberry, perhaps in another lifetime…

Some of you might think I’m being facetious, but this was a REAL problem for a lot of us. The answer to the age-old question of, “Who ships cupcakes?” has been found, right here, on my wonderful blog. I told you I’m a wealth of information!

In other cupcake news…
Many of you cupcake addicts already know about CUP-A-CAKE, the revolutionary plastic cupcake shipping device. From reading various reviews online, CUP-A-CAKE actually works without smooshing the cupcakes’ frosting. Your cupcakes arrive intact!

But you can’t withhold vital information such as this. E-mail this article to all of your friends!

I’ve had a bit of a quandary since I last posted.

I was enormously perplexed as to what in the world I could possibly blog about that wouldn’t look like mud next to my post on the Anaheim White House Restaurant. Anything else might pale in comparison.

I had considered seguing into revealing a hot venture capital tip I just discovered,
but nah.

The only thing I could think of that can hang tough with that divine eatery is my experience at Bliss Spa. Sorry venture capitalists, but first things first!

Guys, you might want to liken this post akin to being out shopping with your woman. Ask the receptionist if there’s a place where you can have a seat or if she can recommend a good spa for men, because we’re gonna be a while…

The best thing about living in Los Angeles is the overindulgence factor. Everybody wants to give you champagne and a massage. Well, maybe not in that exact order…

If it’s your birthday and you live in L.A., you’re going to get either a bottle of your favorite bubbly or a gift certificate to a spa. Guaranteed. At least if you’re a girl.
But wait, this is L.A. I’m talking about…so I suppose it applies to both genders!

I’m too sheepish to admit how many spas I have frequented in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Only my family knows. I went spa crazy at one point, and the entire staffs at the more swank-a-dank, chi-chi spas knew me by name more than they did their celebrity clientele. So yeah, I’ve been to a spa or two in my time.

But I must say that I always have a thoroughly enjoyable experience every time I set foot into Bliss Spa. My favorite is the one inside of the W Hotel in Westwood, although they have locations nationwide that I’m sure are equally groovy.

I love everything about Bliss: the layout, the squeaky clean and sterile interior, the brownie buffet and lemon water in the lounge, the lemony-zesty aromatherapy wafting overhead continually, slipping into a luxe lounging robe with a dippy grin on my face, the sauna, the warm steam shower…and oh, the massages are pretty good, too.

See, I’m one of those intensely-deep-tissue massage lovers; so the Bliss massage therapists, although they try, can never dig deep enough for me. But that’s OK.
They get a million points for everything else they do to utter perfection.

I’m not saying those ladies don’t give a good massage, because they do. I just know that if I want a black-and-blue massage, I have to see my Armenian masseuse.

But let’s speak of Bliss, not relishable torture!

I call this piece “Anticipation”

Where are my brownies?!

Grabbing that robe I mentioned…

Oh yeah, sister. Show my muscles no mercy!

You’re gonna have to light a stick of dynamite to get me out of here…

And that, my friends, is a typical experience for me at Bliss Spa.

But wait, there’s more! I can’t leave without buying some of their lemon-sage soap, their dreamy hand cream, and 10,000 other favorite Bliss products!

Now where is my man?! I know he didn’t leave me here!

While searching for fantastic florists that sell white flowers (my favorite!),
and I somehow happened upon Anaheim White House Restaurant, by proprietor
Bruno Serato. Zagat rated this gem “Outstanding!” And I can see why!

It’s confirmed: I’m lucky to live in Southern California.

As you can imagine, everything about the establishment’s 12 dining rooms’ interior is gilded and white…even with white candles and flowers!

I must also mention how remarkably pretty the food looks.

There’s no other way to describe it. It’s just…pretty!

Rainbow Ravioli

Seared Ahi Tuna

Fontina and Prosciutto-stuffed Chicken with Artichokes

Dessert Tray with Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries

I know I mentioned Mallorca Restaurant in Pittsburgh catering my wedding, but Anaheim White House Restaurant is the first restaurant that can actually give my beloved Mallorca a run for its money. Yes, they even have a catering division.
Decisions, decisions!

In the meantime, I might have to hire some contributing writers to help me cover the universe of posh. There’s so much luxury in the world and so little time!

Anaheim White House Restaurant
887 South Anaheim Boulevard
Anaheim, CA 92805
(714) 772-1381

Don’t fire that driver, butler, or sloppy personal assistant just yet. You just might be able to salvage the situation. With the Starkey International Institute for Household Management, there’s hope!

On a yearly basis, the Starkey International Institute instructs more than 100 personal service pros then assigns them and other elite household staff in service positions around the world.

The Institute’s century-old Georgian mansion in Denver, Colorado is where students train and learn hands-on from A-Z how to offer superior personal service to their employers.

Click here for Starkey’s HOW TO ENROLL page.

So you can breathe a sigh of relief now that you don’t have to have “the talk” with your maid or chef today. Send their lazy butts to Starkey International! If they refuse to go, I’m sure Starkey has just the replacement solution!

Starkey also provides on-site personal service consulting and private instruction for homes and estates, residential communities, corporations, preferred hotels and bed and breakfasts around the world.

For my readers who are seeking elite EMPLOYMENT such as this, click here to learn about Starkey International’s available domestic staffing employment positions.
The best part? Excellent pay!

Good luck to all!

I’m sure you remember the delicious excursion we took when I raved about Vosges Haut-Chocolat.

Well, today I visited the Vosges web site to see what they’ve got cookin’ - and boy - they really are cooking: bacon-chocolate bars! This sounds kind of kinky…like some sort of culinary perversion.

I don’t know whether to cheer or sneer.

I love the flavor of Applewood smoked bacon, and I think the entire universe and the outer galaxies know that I have a lust for good chocolate, but I’m not so sure this combo sits well with me.

But then again, I have a strange palate and I do find myself combining all kinds of “wrong” foods and secretly savoring them…so maybe I’ll relish this concoction!

Per the Vosges site…

Bacon Exotic Candy Bar

Applewood smoked bacon + Alder smoked salt + deep milk chocolate

Deep milk chocolate coats your mouth and leads to the crunch of smoked bacon pieces. Surprise your mouth with the smoked salt and sweet milk chocolate combination.

“Crisp, buttery, compulsively irresistible bacon and milk chocolate combination has long been a favorite of mine. I started playing with this combination at the tender age of six while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of fried bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. Just a bite of the bacon was too salty and yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate syrup. In retrospect, perhaps this was a turning point, for on that plate something magical happened: the beginnings of a combination so ethereal and delicious that it would haunt my thoughts until I found the medium to express it–chocolate.”
–Katrina

Hey, I’ve been your guinea pig for long enough, folks. How about you come back here and comment on this post after you try it and let us know the deal?

We’ll be waiting for your report!