Me Likey

Mmm…paczki. It’s been so long since I had one that I nearly forgot what they taste like, but I’ve got to say I “heart” Fat Tuesday. This may be one of my new favorite holidays…right up there with Discount Chocolate Day (happened to be yesterday…the day after Valentine’s Day), Cut-Rate Peeps Day (just after Easter), Thanksgiving and Halloween (the kid does the trick-or-treating, I get the candy…good deal!).

After lunch today I logged in to my Blogger account, only to find that I had forgotten all about Fat Tuesday. I had remembered Nana’s birthday, which was a plus, but what kind of good, wholesome Polish girl neglects the opportunity for a nearly unlimited array of paczki at every bakery worth its salt? Realizing my mistake, I rushed downstairs to tell The Hubbs that we all had to run out for a short while. Being the good sport that he is, he went along with it and piled into the car with The Princess and me. I revealed my plan as we pulled into a parking spot in front of our local bakery…and he was with me 100%.

Inside the bakery we faced the difficult task of choosing six paczki out of a wide variety of flavors. We finally settled on buttercream, cheese, blueberry and raspberry, and headed home with our oh-so-yummy-looking treasures.

They tasted every bit as good as they looked.

And I think The Princess may have a thing for powdered sugar…just a hunch. I’ll try to snap a picture or two on the next round to share with y’all.

Now for the real challenge: finding something I like that doesn’t make me fat. But that’s a challenge for another time. This day’s already shot…no sense in turning back now!