Last call for paczki! Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, and while I love a holiday celebration, it always felt weird for me to eat Cajun food and King Cake, having no connection to New Orleans. But having Polish friends and relatives is all the justification I need to indulge in the delicious jelly-filled pastries. They are now available in grocery stores and bakeries around the country, even here in the Southern US. I’m picking up my order this morning, raspberry and lemon, and will try to hold out until tomorrow to eat them. Get them while you can before they disappear for another year. Do you have any pre-Lenten traditions – gumbo, pancakes, paczki?
From that link:
“You probably haven’t seen the Coney Pączki yet: it’s a mashup between a pączek and a hot dog, where the bun is replaced by a glazed doughnut and the filling consists of a steamed sausage, mustard and chopped onions.”
Yikes! For the first time ever I’m thinking Lent might be a good thing.
That does sound nasty. I’ll stick with traditional paczki, thanks!
Growing up in Pittsburgh Lent wasn’t that much deprivation. Most of the churches used it as an opportunity for fund raising. The Catholic Churches had the Friday fish fries, the Greek Orthodox sold spanakopita and other meat free foods, there were pierogis from the Ukrainian churches and even the local AMEs got in on it by selling sweet potato pies that we considered a loophole in the no dessert thing, lol. When I moved away I was shocked that none of that was readily available.
A hot dog in a donut? I hope it’s better than it sounds.
What a waste of a perfectly good donut!
It could possibly be. Have you ever sugared a hot dog? Probably not. But you can do it with a ham and pork chops, so maybe.
I don’t eat hot dogs or pork chops. Theoretically I eat ham but haven’t in years.
That response was for @luigi-vuoto who, judging by his responses to my Celebrity Sunday Matinee posts, would be an adventurous eater.
Here we have Fasnachts. They are made like this (fun video from local church – note the Crisco lard). Here is Fasnacht PR. I am not a fan of the Fasnacht.
They seem similar to paczki which are richer and heavier than a regular donut. But I’d try them.
Man, you want pączki, you go to the Anna’s bakery on Chicago Ave and Leavitt Street in Chicago. They got the goods over there. I allow myself one per year, and my wife is going to Chicago next week so she’ll pick some up. Also, their rye bread is terrific.
lol fly you! I know Chicago and Detroit are supposed to have to best paczki. I’m grateful that they are sort of trendy or I wouldn’t be able to get them at all down here.
I don’t think I have had these. I grew up and am still addicted to Malasadas which are Portuguese sweet bread donuts. The Haupia filled ones are amazing!
https://www.leonardshawaii.com/menu/malasadas-and-doughnuts/
YES. Was introduced to those on a trip to the Big Island about 10 years ago.
Tex Drive In
I’ve had the Tex ones, they are good, but the Leonards ones are the best I have had. I tried to make them once and they weren’t bad but can’t match Leonards.
That whole menu looks awesome. I need to go to Hawaii ASAP!
I had to Google Haupia and now I really want one of these!
That was supposed to be Lucky you. Why the hell would autocorrect think I wanted to say “lol fly you”?
I am convinced autocorrect is an experiment in neo-Dadaism perpetrated by anarchists who have infiltrated Big Tech. When I write about one of my brothers, and he’s in the email or text chain, it used to autocorrect his perfectly common first name to a mild and somewhat archaic expletive which I have never written. I turned it off a while ago.
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That conspiracy theory made my day. I used to call a friend Swan. His name was Ryan. The first iteration of autocorrect on my pushbutton cell would always turn it into Swan and I gave up fighting it.
I thought you were calling me fly, which I am.
Autocorrect = Skynet