I took the May Bacon of the Month package down to Maryland to cook in my mom’s kitchen.

I was there to help her move into her new apartment. The old house, three storys and four bedrooms, was getting a bit too much for her to maintain. I thought the bacon would be nice as the last thing I cooked in the kitchen where I learned to bake and cook.

mom’s old kitchen

horrible self-portrait

I decided to keep half of the package to be the first thing cooked in mom’s new kitchen. I felt it was an appropriate food to break in the new place.

another horrible self-portrait

May’s bacon had an intense smoked flavor and aroma. In fact, my mom’s old house smelled smoky for several days. The stove in the new kitchen had a very strong fan which quickly removed the smoky scent from her apartment. This bacon, like all of the Bacon of the Month club selections so far, was rather salty but not unpleasantly so.

You may have noticed that I haven’t cooked up February or April’s bacon selections. Those packages were given to the wonderful AlCantHang and I’m waiting on word (and photos) of their consumption.

June’s selection will be arriving soon so if you want to volunteer your kitchen for my “cooking the Bacon of the Month Club bacon in someone’s kitchen other than my own” project let me know.

If you haven’t caught on by now, I’m in a band called Frauke, which I am constantly pimping (shameless self promotion) on this blog. In any event, we recently released our debut album Dirtier Than Horses, which is conveniently available for digital download from both iTunes and Amazon. Or if you want the real deal CD you can pick one up from insound.

Last week we got a little mention on Pitchfork for our song Parasite Fungus:

Frauke rock “Parasite Fungus” as if it’s funny (hey, it kind of is) and as if they hate you (they probably don’t, but that’s their URL if not their M.O.). Either way,Brooklyn-based punk trio of Tammy Duncan, husband Andrew Duncan, and Goes Cube’s David Obuchowski dig this track– from full-length debut Dirtier Than Horses– a shallow grave of trebly hammer-on guitar riffs and attention-deficit drumming, then cover it up with some distorted banshee wails. read full post

And a nice leaky Faucet review from PoptartsSuckToasted:

Dirtier Then Horses, features a slew of humorous indie-rock for everyone to consume. It’s all written with a sharp tongue, but you can’t help believing that maybe this band doesn’t really hate us so much. I mean, could they really abhor us and provide us with awesomely fun music at the same time? read full review

And lastly, Earfarm was out our record release show at cake shop back in April:

Frauke had their album release show two nights ago at Cake Shop and attacked the room the way they always do, with wit, guile, and tightly imperfect pop-punk songs about boyfriends in prison, fake Canadian girlfriends, and hiding one’s grade school erection with a Trapper Keeper. Read full post

Probably not news to everybody else, but my good friend LJ has introduced me to the site Photo Basement.

A few recent samples:

And the cream of the crop “41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments“:

Our good pal Ava just sent us this postcard from her trip to Japan. I am so J…