Toast!

Everyone worth their weight in flour knows that one of the easiest, tastiest snacks to sink your teeth in(excluding fruits and veggies that are ready to eat) is toast. What they also should know is that toast sans butter is a sad scenario. Even if one has quality bread, without butter (or your topping of choice) it just isn't the same. Unfortunately I have found myself in this predicament. I'm not at my place and the people who live here are out of town for the weekend, and they took their non butter spread with them. There was one stick of butter, and the dog swiped it off the counter earlier. I meant to grab the stick I had over at a friend's place when I was there earlier but alas, I forgot. There is no 24 hour store nearby, otherwise I'd jump on the bike and straighten this all out. If this was my neck of the woods-well, I'd have butter in my fridge for starters and if I'd somehow run out I could be to the QFC and back in a matter of minutes.
Luckily the bread I've toasted up is of a good sort. I picked it up from La Petite Provence earlier today.It is walnut currant bread, and it tastes great.I'd noticed the shop on Division a little while back, and shortly after I read a raving review in one of the local weeklies.I've been meaning to hit it up for its "divine pastries" but I keep forgetting about it. Besides the bread, I grabbed the last almond croissant sitting in the display, and it was scrumptious. Yes, I said scrumptious.I have some opinions about croissants. Don't eat that shit from the supermarket if you can help it, ok? Don't go to any old bakery and assume their croissant is good, just cos you don't know any better. You want a fucking good almond croissant? Go to the Pearl Bakery. That is what I've been telling people for years. But now...I'm gonna have to bump them down to notch number two. Go to Petite Provence and try it for yourself. They have lots of other little treats that looked delectable but I didn't need to sample those fares justyet. I'll go back later and see what else they have, but for now I'm hapy with the items I got.
I noticed a few other changes on the street. Victory, a bar that has apparently been open for a month now on 36th and Division, seems mostly to be a wine bar but they have food and beer, too. I ordered one of the draft beers-it was listed as "The Beliver" but I think it was supposed to "Believer". I already forgot what brewery made it, it wasn't one I had heard of before. But the winter ale that I drank was delicious. Cold, crisp, and perfect. I wanted to order the spaetzel but they were already closing down the "kitchen" so I vowed to return at a later date. I sipped my beer, reading from Anthony Bourdain's "The Nasty Bits" and was tempted to grab another beer but I wanted to get soem food. I'd been eyeing this restaurant up on 41st and Division that had a sign declaring "late night food" in the window for the past couple of weeks. I decided to brave the cold and hustle up the street. To my dissapointment the joint was closed. Late night food, my ass. I don't know why they would be closed at 1 am on a Saturday. I might try ot go there again, but I was pretty miffed that a place declaring its late night menu wouldn't be open on one of the busiest nights of the restaurant world.
This is how I wind up throwing bread in the toaster and being annoyed that the butter is missing.I'm going to have to eat something else, most likely requiring that I actually prepare it, which isn't a problem in and of itslef, but...I wanted to get someone else to do the dirty work...
"Coke & wet bitch /guns nigga/holla!"-Spankrock (these lines in the song make me want someone to serve me some caviar and a magnum of champagne..that'd go reaaal good with toast, dontcha think?)