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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We have a Polish woman on staff. Not as an official Pole but as an accountant.
She doesn't think that this sort of Paczki is very authentic. She doesn't think that the pazcki that are made by a local specialist bakery are very authentic either. (She is picky.)
But - I think it says something about the high population of Poles in Chicago and vicinity that you can get paczky at the local Jewel not in a specialty store.
We used to have a cookie/coffee shop where you could get kolachky.
I could run down to the Graeter's or Servatii on Fountain Square and look for paczki. But it's like 20 degrees. And they are not my tradition (or mr. flea's even though he is super-Polish wrt New Year's.)
Blinis should be my tradition, but I don't really like them. I feel like I'm entitled to claim king cake, if not as my birthright.
I could run down to the Graeter's or Servatii on Fountain Square and look for paczki.
Oh my god, the cheese-filled ones from Graeter's are AMAZING. I was just too lazy to drive to Graeter's this morning, so I ran to the Bakery District* of Northside and got a couple of jelly-filled ones from Bonomini Bakery.
*(Bonomini Bakery has been on Blue Rock in Northside for 1,000 years, and recently Queen City Cookies moved in across the street from Bonomini, so we decided that 2 bakeries qualifies as a "district." The Bakery District is around the corner from the Taco District.)
I guess my actual tradition is pancakes, because the church I grew up in would have a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday, but in general, I don't observe. I don't do much if anything to observe Lent either, so that seems about right!
The Bakery District is around the corner from the Taco District.)
This pleases me. I miss having a Falafel District.
I guess my actual tradition is pancakes, because the church I grew up in would have a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday
Yup. I do try to remember to do that, mostly because pancakes for dinner!
But I have defrosted borscht waiting for me! I could make biscuits to go with -- no eggs, but lots of butter, at least....
It's just I don't have the emotional resources to be there for her while she unloads all her misery and anxiety onto my shoulders.
Oh how well I know this. Just remember you owe her nothing. No money, no shoulder, no explanation. You can empathize but you're under no obligation to do more than that. Your sister's financial foibles were her own, and you do not have to take them over.
ION, I have no desire to work today.
My co-worker pronounces paczki the same as Teppy's grandma.
She says that the texture of authentic paczki is chewier than the paczki we get here. (I wonder if it is a difference in the flour?)