The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Cesar R M]

I'm going to take a nap. I've been up since 2:30 so I don't see a problem doing so

I second this motion.. NAP TIME!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

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not to mention the sparkling.. :|

 

[Gabe1]

I still extend my invitation to you all, its a balmy 79F (thermal feel of 82)

 

[Gabe1]

Neither Mexicans, we're still paying full price of GAS :/

OIl closed up 12 Percent yesterday. Gasoline up 15 cents a gallon today.

And so it begins...

 

[Gabe1]

Yep, we have similar too. Although, I'm not so used to them looking like filled donuts with lots of icing. Only a few drizzles of icing or maybe a little powdered sugar, actually.
What I posted were my Czech heritages originals...!!!
But, then again, the definition of a kolache has been extended, in recent years. We have them in all sorts of savory forms, as well...stuffed with sausage, cheese, jalapeño,bacon, etc....

ETA:
And yes, the pastry in a good kolache is always very light...a very light and wonderous food vessel, indeed...!

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Yes Kolaches are wondrous marvels. My guess is it isn't as much Kolache being expanded by definition more the ones I eat around here are not Czech they are Polish. Likely even throughout Poland each region does something different. I see that with cabbage rolls too.
My next door neighbors are from Poland but on opposite ends of the country. They met here but they seem to have some very different traditions kinda like we do here also.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[Gabe1]

Belle doesn't do that. She just insists on being on top of me usually. If I need to move her, I do. She looks momentarily insulted until I start petting her, then she's fine with it.

When Walt was a puppy I could move him. He weighs more than I do. If he is asleep there is no budging him.

 

[Gabe1]

So has my dog, and she's only 19 lbs yet pushes me around.

Walt climbs up the middle of the bed, falls asleep and then stretches in his sleep and I have 4 paws shifting me closer and closer to the edge. He use to steal my pillows too. I went to Walmart and bought him his own. Not into sharing my pillow.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Ours are very different than that pastry form. They are very round and light and the various fillings are packed into the middle. The pastry is very light and delicate and yummy filling is smack in the middle.

These look like paczki.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

This is my favorite so far!

Mine too.

 

[Gabe1]

Technically, the world CANNOT handle these low prices.. even if they were "designed" and planned to destroy IRAN, Venezuela and Russia's economies (all enemies of USA).
Because there are a lot of countries whose economy were planned for at least 40 USD barrel.
Ironically, Mexico supposedly had bought an "insurance" in case the barrel would go lower than 40 USD. it is now below 20 USD for Mexican's mix.. and who knows where the "insurance" went... Probably gone to pay some fat politicians retirement bill in the Maldives.

I'm actually annoyed that cars still require gasoline. There has been awesome tech advances in the last 30 years or so and I cannot buy into the theory it is taking scientists and engineers this long to create cars that operate more efficiently on batteries and much smaller batteries at that. It would solve all sorts of pollution problems too.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Ah, not me. I'm into the vampires.

One of my daughter's favorite books.

 

[Gabe1]

These look like paczki.

Around here paczki are pastry not stuffed but sliced like a hamburger bun and a great variety of stuff is layered between the pastry.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

so this trifle happened at dinner tonight
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Why do I have to be on a diet!

 

[Gabe1]

Oh jeez Antonin Scalia is dead. Wonder who found him. eek. The news is just sending teaser headlines now.

Thought the earthquake was more than enough news today.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

And, in other awesome news...
DWifey called me on the way home from the office to tell me she got the promotion she found out she was up for only two days ago! She may have shed a tear...or two...
They told her they didn't even bother to interview two other possible contenders 'cause it was no contest.
The director of the department wanted her for the position back in Oct., but, higher-ups wanted to hold off for a few more months to see if she would still be performing at such a high level...apparently, they couldn't believe it...!!!
I'm sooo happy for her, and she sooooo very much deserves it...!!!
And, yes, it also came with a monster raise...!

Interviewer: "Carolyn, now that ya' got the big promotion and raise, what are ya' gonna' do now...?!"
DWifey: "Whataya' think silly?!!! We're goin' to Walt Disney Wooooooorld...!!!!!!! "

 

[MOXOMUMD]

You're talking about Star Wars, right?

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[donaldtoo]

Yes Kolaches are wondrous marvels. My guess is it isn't as much Kolache being expanded by definition more the ones I eat around here are not Czech they are Polish. Likely even throughout Poland each region does something different. I see that with cabbage rolls too.
My next door neighbors are from Poland but on opposite ends of the country. They met here but they seem to have some very different traditions kinda like we do here also.

Yes, I very much get the whole regional aspect, regarding pretty much every conuntry on the planet.
Most of my relatives are from Bohemia and Moravia, the two regions which cover the vast majority of the current Czech Republic. And, I guarantee you, none of them were making kokaches in the Motherland, back in the day, filled with such things as jalapeños and smoked brisket.
There is a huge Czech population in Texas, that began around the turn of the last century. Whole towns and communities.
My pops pop was first generation on his side and born here in Texas back in 1900.
Maybe it's just us crazy Czexans , but, the concept of the kolache has definitely been expanded over the generations down here.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Good morning all. For me not so much. It's 15 degrees outside but it looks like the temperature may not budge until tonight and then it only goes down Then the wind is going to pick up or it may pick up before noon Tonight's dinner roast groundhog with chestnut stuffing gravy, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole. A celebration of his demise!

 

[Gabe1]

When I was in college, some of my friends and I would head up to Lake Marie in the Snowies. We'd stop and get a bucket of fried chicken and have a picnic. And every year for our top level choir, we had a retreat in the Snowies. There was a lodge up there and it was gorgeous and isolated, and we'd do ice breaker games to get to know the new members (it changed every year because people graduated and we held new auditions) and then we'd close the day by going outside and singing one of the pieces we'd been working on...usually something dramatic and religious in nature....the one I particularly remember was Sing Out My Soul. I think it might have been an arrangement our director did, but it was beautiful and somehow majestic when sung out in the mountains...I miss that.

Something about those Mountains. I only did the Aspen area once during the summer and it was so pretty. Still even then I really wasn't into climbing rocks. Lift Chairs and swooshing down the mountains more to my liking.

My friend couldn't have children and she was in Aspen when she found out that she was being given a yet to be born baby girl. She went out to the mountaintop and just screamed Its a Girl, I'm going to be a Mom.