KOLACHES YEY!

The last one

I stopped at Buc-ee’s in Calhoun, Georgia a few days ago and picked up half a dozen kolaches—sausage and cheese and just finished off the last one.  

From my research it appears the Czechs were the originators of the kolache filling them with all sorts of sweets.  I still prefer the sausage.  I recall a trip to Waco,Texas a few years back when we were coached to stop at an exit that had shops to buy kolanches on both sides of the interstate—the store on the opposite side was supposedly the best so we followed directions.  It was a Czech bakery.  

When we first married and were home visiting my in-laws there was a bakery up on Peoria Avenue.  My mother in law would get there early enough to get a box of their kolaches—usually just sausage, sometimes with cheese.  Those were my first kolaches and where the love affair began.  

Growing up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ family, my in-laws introduced me to several things I’d never eaten—green beans, rice, asian food, and kolaches!  

Bon appetit!