Paczki Day

[Colliemom]

Good Morning all,

This day, the day before Lent begins is called by many different names. Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras Day, Shrove Tuesday etc. and here in Michigan and perhaps elsewhere,where Polish traditions are followed, it's also Paczki Day. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this yummy but very fattening pastry, here's a link to a bit of it's history in Michigan anyway http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/mic ... -michigan/. I'm eating a Cherry filled one as I type this And keeping my sugary fingers off my keyboard I'm sure the stores in town especially the one that makes them by the boxfull or individual, are selling them like hotcakes today. It's pretty a given that most offices, employee breaks rooms, homes etc., will have them on the table today. Everybody has their favorite flavors.

So now that i have chowed mine down, it's time to get busy and burn it off. Closet cleaning day today. Yank everything out, wash the walls and woodwork, vacum up the carpet and put everything back. I don't need to weed anything out as I have done that already over time especially last year with my neighbors summer long garage sale going. And the lisitng of my house about two years ago. All that's left is what I am wearing or using now. So I will breeze through them today and then when they are done, I will stop as all that will be left is my kitchen cupboards and that will be another days project in itself. Depending on weather, the girls and I wll take our afternoon walk. A bit of a mix is expected to arrive around noon here and continue the remainder of the day.

Was thinking this morning that Kdmac has been very quiet lately. Wondering how she's doing. Also haven't heard much from Tina lately either. No dog shows, no trips planned, no whatever? Hope all's is going well. Actually it seems like there are a few others missing in action lately too.

Time to be off and running now. Hope you all have a great day. Keeping smiling

[Sandersmr]

Here it's Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday and pancakes for supper are common.

Those pazckis look a lot like our kolaches - the original fruit filled ones, not the pigs in a blanket that everyone calls sausage kolache - that weer brought over by the Checzhs settling in the state.

Oscar had to go to the vet to get his face checked - follow-up - and he did not want to climb in the Jeep this morning. DBF texted me and told me that he managed to mark his territory INSIDE the vet's office - oops!

Well, off to earn a living for a little while.

[dayspring39]

Good morning I am up but not awake... waiting for Wendy's visit... wow Wandering oaks is fast becoming a 'if you are in the know' place to be! ... starting tomorrow morning I will be getting things ready for my daughter.... and then we will have a real good group on Sunday... guess this is the mid Florida GTG...
Will drink my coffee and wake up... like wake up and smell the coffee... oh Sue those paczki for sure are huge and fill you up for the whole day!!! we used to get them at work... then we were all logy the rest of the day...
Have a wonderful day everyone I know I will if I can ever get awake...
Kathleen

[Acadianmom]

Today is Fat Tuesday here. The weather man promised that it wasn't going to rain but it sure looks like it could. Today will be the last day they make King Cakes. Trying to decide how bad I need one. In the last few years we have been able to buy something called Pistolets. They are little french bread rolls stuffed with different things and fried. They are usually filled with seafood, like a thick etouffee. I made some onetime but kind of messy.

I am seldom able to get our Border Collie to the vet without him peeing in the office no matter how hard I try. I get there early and walk him around out side for 20 minutes and he pees on everything. I can't let him smell anything in the office.

Martha

[JudyJB]

Sob! No Paczki (pronounced "poonch-kees") in our office today! Our group is small and the office huge and none of our group thought to stop and bring any in.

Supposed to rain, but no rain yet. High of 44 today, but gray and no sun.

[mitch5252]

Those pazckis look a lot like our kolaches - the original fruit filled ones, not the pigs in a blanket that everyone calls sausage kolache - that weer brought over by the Checzhs settling in the state.
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You czech? Or slovak? I'm slovak (the peasants) My grandmother, born in the 1890s, made the BEST kolaches...what a childhood memory. Never have had one as good as grannies'!!! She used to have HUGE bags of flour in a small room off her kitchen. She had a wood burning stove and used to heat a couple of irons on the stove on ironing day. But wood burning stove aside, she baked the best everything.

Well, wasn't that a stroll down memory lane...

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[Irmi]

Good morning everyone!

I think it's so interesting that others celebrate today in so many different ways. Here, it's Shrove Tuesday. I've cooked up two pounds of sausage patties, one of them being maple. After Wendy gets here, we will decide when we want to eat. Then I'll start getting the German pancakes made. I talked to Kathleen earlier and it sounds like she is going to be busy in her kitchen as well, so if any of you would like to stop by, there will be lots of food on the table.

The weather is warming up nicely. Being in Florida for the winter so agrees with me.

[Sandersmr]

You czech? Or slovak? I'm slovak (the peasants) My grandmother, born in the 1890s, made the BEST kolaches...what a childhood memory. Never have had one as good as grannies'!!! She used to have HUGE bags of flour in a small room off her kitchen. She had a wood burning stove and used to heat a couple of irons on the stove on ironing day. But wood burning stove aside, she baked the best everything.

Well, wasn't that a stroll down memory lane...

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No, we just had large German and Czech (man I couldn't spell that the first time at all!) settlements in central Texas - LaGrange, Halletsville, Schulenberg, New Braunfels areas. And they brought their cooking with them.

[Echo]

GOOD MORNING SISTAHS!!!!

It's a nothing day here. Well it is a Tuesday in February but that's it for us. Really slow and boring.

Weather here can't make up it's mind on what it's gonna do either. Sun is shining hard outside but it's breezy and a tad chilly.

Got a voicemail from Dollywood this morning. Heard the phone ring but couldn't get to it fast enough., Woman said she would call back this afternoon again. I am so torn on what to do!?! Was gonna let Sue know that Kelly and I were going to join her club of "returning to work at the same place" as we had to decided against going home. But now everything is up in the air again. I simply hate being undecided and in limbo. All in all it will come down to what Dollywood says about how might be able to start working there? We have the money to get home with but the money isn't limitless and we will need to factor in the cost of 'living' until I at least begin working. And for Kelly to begin working too as her added income is the bonus!!!

Wherever you are, whatever your doing remember to have fun and to be careful.

Love to all

OK, off to read and catch up I guess.

[pattyk]

Here in California it's called everything depending on who you are talking to.

I'll be having pancakes tonight.

[BarbaraRose]

I am part Czech (more specifically, Bohunk (Bohemian)). My dad still runs up to the grocery store on Sunday mornings to buy his blueberry kolaches (pronounced kolach-kies), or "kolacky" as it is spelled in MN. My grandmother grew up in Montgomery, MN which is considered the "Kolacky capital of the world" and has their annual "Kolacky Days".