Winter has dumped several inches of snow and superchilled the Upper Left Hand Corner of Illinois. So there's nothing whatsoever to do but eat.
Now we can work on fattening up to increase our downhill speed. And since we're becoming more well rounded, we should be more aerodynamic as well.
This is a good time to put in a word for Mort & Saint's bar & grill at 114 S. Chicago Avenue in Freeport just next door to our Freeport Bicycle Company. Today's special was goulash replete with three pieces of grilled garlic bread. We washed it down with a couple mugs of diet cola (no endorsements for soft drink companies in this blog), and were out the door for under five bucks.
Mort's has the best Italian beef this side of Chicagoland, and their Italian meatball sandwich is terrific. The meatballs are larger than golf balls, and you get two sleeves on a great French role for -- you got it -- under five bucks!
While we were smacking at the Hungarian Goul, Duke Herrling remarked that Tyger Johnson was singing and playing his many instruments at 9 East Coffee on Stephenson Street this morning. Tyger is our renowned cyclocross champion who retired years ago to a Lightning F40 recumbent.
http://www.lightningbikes.com/f40.htm
Tyger is our local Lightning dealer and has sold most of the Lightning recumbents ridden in this area. Thanks to Tyger, the Upper Left Hand Corner may have more recumbent bikes per capita than any place in the world.
Nevertheless, the next time we find Tyger playing at 9 East Coffee, we're gonna get him some dark glasses and a monkey with a tin cup. With his talent, he should be able to make enough money to properly refit the shell on his F40.
Now, back to Jill's Goulash at Mort & Saint's. It was so deliciously filling that afterwards I felt obliged to stop in next door and talk bike riding with Ron Mattson at Freeport Bicycle. This was so therapeutic after a big lunch.
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