fancy...that.

ever since i started getting back into cooking - something i have loved to do for a long time but my last kitchen wasn't really conducive to real knife wielding action - i have had a hard time walking past cooking supplies joints and not going in and having a little look-see... and i'm not even sure i know how to cook but i sure love it so...a few weeks ago it was the purchase of a new garlic press and hand operated swing style citrus squeezer at cook works on broadway - all the while looking over the fancy cast iron dutch ovens trying to convince myself i needed to spend 400 clams to take that baby home and rustle up some stew of some sort...i have yet to drop the money - i just can't get over the fact that what i have now for slow cooking - my crock pot - does exactly the same thing...maybe one day. i am a simple man really...i need only the basics...truth.
today i was over on south granville having some soup (tomato lime) and eating some deli meat straight out of the paper - some sort of turkey...when i ran into jen with one N and her good pal shane...after i had regaled them with tales of whatever i could come up with, and after rhoda, her mom, had shown-up and i spoke of Lawn Boy - a mocumentary on lawn order, and made her mom wish she'd met jen somewhere else, i made my way down granville just shuffling along with no real destination. then i found myself in front of the williams-sonoma store. fuck. look at them tools in the window. once inside i was hypnotized by all the shiney things...blenders, grills, etc...nice - the piece i was most wow'd by was the super heavy duty citrus squeezer - like the type bartenders use to squeeze fresh juice for drinks in san tropez...nice unit. a woman who worked there try very hard to convince me to buy it but i stayed strong...i did, however, buy a new paring knife and some measuring spoons...
nice store. they have an in store kitchen of sorts there and tomorrow they're preparing pie and muffins so i may go up and watch them make that jingus..i've made pie before but, i'll walk a few blocks to watch that...
otherwise today was fairly low-key...lots of walking, went to corie and katherine's to check on things while they're away...(seems her pal didn't know how to set the alarm so i had to go take care of business...) and a lot of hanging out with mishi at the pickle...i'm down with that.
tonight 'he who can not be named on the blog' came over and we watched as the canucks lost to the sharks...very exciting and i did laundry...i know how to rock it on a saturday night...
tomorrow. more action.

g. xo