now, ben is probably the only one of you handful of readers who has ever had a kolache before. in short, they are a czech-inspired fruit- (or sausage-) filled sweet pastry popular in the bohemian-settled towns in central texas (the town of West, Texas [which is not in West Texas] being most famous for kolaches). if you want to learn more about them you can go the homesick texan's blog whence came the recipe i used. i chose to only use fruit--the apricot filling i made according to her recipe, and canned cherries for the others; i'll make sausage ones another time. yes, there will be another time. these taste just like the real deal to me.
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YES! ben like kolache mucho. You must be talking about The Czech Stop, location of many happy food experience en route to/fro Austin and Dallas way back when. Didn't know they came with fruit.
But thanks for reminding me about these delicious things even though I can't step through the computer monitor and eat one off the JPEG. Since looking at these things is SUCH torture, here's a little torture in return - had some terrific mole (MOLE-AY: the food, not the animal) at a hideaway in Santa Fe today.=P
But seriously - packed light for a purpose, you want some dried chili/packaged mole-ay/green chile from Chimayo for a future concoction?
yep, the czech stop! i like the poppy seed ones, as well. yum. you know, the only thing that i would really, really want is dried posole/pozole. i can get dried new mexican chiles, but there is no posole in these parts to be had except for canned hominy, which i don't like. but i'd like to make some good posole with pork and chile. a nice lunch if you're in the market one day is the plaza cafe there in the square. it's a nostalgic kinda place that serves a decent posole with tortillas and sopapillas. probably not on any top restaurant lists for santa fe, but i liked it. with so many good restaurants there, though, it's hard to find bad food. have a great new year there!!!
I'm also a fan of the poppy seed ones. They don't have that variety up the street from us, so I only get them when I pass through West about once a year.
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