Getting Amped

It looks like we are going to have a great crew out for the Hillsboro-Roubaix race! Ben and Mike from Killjoy have been convinced (like me) to ride on something besides single track. From Half Acre we have Zach riding with the Cat 3's since he's such a monster! In the 4/5 race there will be Adrian Silva, Kevin Clark, Tim Strege and yours truely. Our kits should be in by then and due to the delay they are waiving minimums for the next order, hello new skinsuit!

On another note I handed in my resignation to Gapers Block today (sorry Naz). I went into this project to write nothing but original material on food, food culture and not just repost other peoples links and events. What I came to realize is that I'm way to busy right now to get involved in anything like that (after only two posts!). Frankly my job is not one where I spend inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer so to actually sit down and be creative, ride my bike and work is to much for me to handle right now. I have enough hobbies as it is, I don't need to be awake until 3am to write a piece that I'm not all that happy with. I like my situation with this blog. I write when I want (usually after a beer, more on that later) and the only people who read it are ones I don't really have to impress. I can write what I feel and say what I want with no repercussions.

Speaking of beer, I've been buying a couple new ones every week at Whole Foods on North Ave. I will try and post them on here, I'm already a little behind. They have a great seletion of Belgians and some nice French farmhouse beers like this most recent buy. Forêt is brewed by Dupont who makes a very famous beer called Saisson Dupont. Both are classic farmhouse style beers but Forêt is all organic ingredients and uses only spring water. The color is a nice warm cloudy gold with a pretty lacy head. For an ale it is very crisp and the hops aren't to overpowering, just enough to clear the palate. We had this with some roasted chicken from Arnolds Farm (that was amazing), and it was a perfect compliment to the gamy/fatyness of the well raised bird (sorry no pics of that). Once again I have to apologize for not having better/any pics. I have a camera that I want but with the move coming up I'm trying not to buy it, although Bowers stole my thunder and bought one before me! Blast you expensive tastes!

Here are two pics from our trip to the bakery on Sunday, Zach is trying to stop the voice in his head saying "pork cookie, pork cookie".