Summer.

well, folks...

(unwillingly) devoted subscribers...

this blog has taken such a hiatus, it doesn't even smell like cooking anymore.

that's because, i've gotten REALLY busy and EXTREMELY lazy.

it is, after all the summer still, and if we can thank the indians again this year, it'll still be the best season for weeks to come.

i can't remember the last time i cooked something that wasn't bacon and egg related.

wait, what about those ribs and those steaks at nick's mom's cottage?  oh, yes...nick cooked those...kudos to nick, who never disappoints in the "man department".  grilled meats.  please.

let me see, here are a couple of food highlights since "we last spoke"...in quotes for obvious reasons...post-modernity, suck my corn on the cob.

so, food stuffs.

this is great news...

in my ever-gentrifying neighbourhood...(that's not the good part, though i'm not complaining about the recent lack of pigeon shit all over the sidewalks and remarkably less crack pipes in the alleys)....we have some new restaurants!

a great pizza place called "Pizzeria Libretto"...

we went last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.  

great food for a good price and a nice atmosphere...in the liner notes of my record i thank the local businesses, and although i wrote that before this place i opened, THANK YOU...and i include you retroactively.

secondly, there is a "high end burger joint" going in a couple of blocks up from us which is great because i LOVE BURGERS....but i am skeptical because usually these kinds of places can't live up to the best burgers in town....in spite of the douchebagery of local douching holes The Drake and The Beaconsfield...they serve GREAT burgers...not to mention my favorite lunch-time hang THE SWAN who's burger will blow your balls off, it even blew my brothers balls off and he's eaten burgers INTERNATIONALLY.  one time i called him when i was eating a swan burger and drinking a swan coffee (crazy juice), and he gagged at the thought of burgers and coffee...c'mon, this is the new millennium.

thirdly, but firstly though lastly..i proposed on a piece of french toast.

many words, upwards.

sebastien