#my first job was baking kolaches!

[ofwings]

can you explain kolaches? Are they like... sweet hot dogs? We had a Shipley open here and it shut down after a year. Never got a chance to try them 😭

kolaches are a type of breakfast pastry brought to texas by czech immigrants. traditional kolaches (kolach) are made with a slightly sweet dough and a sweet filling, normally fruit preserves, poppy seeds, or a sweet cheese. savory kolaches - made with the same dough as the sweet kolaches, but with meat, cheese, and sometimes eggs baked into them - are technically a different pastry called klobasnek, but at least in texas we use "kolache" as the catchall term for both. the dough itself is what defines a kolache to me, so i'm always disappointed to go somewhere that says they have kolaches and it turns out they're just like. sausage wrapped in puff pastry or something. this menu has pictures of all the type of kolaches you'll find at a good kolache shop in texas.

you're not missing out on much because shipley's kolaches are trash, i am sorry to report. the ones at bucee's also aren't particularly good outside of texas (richmond, ky bucee's....... how dare you call that a kolache). if you are ever in houston you should go to one of the kolache shoppe locations (the one on richmond has been around for 50+ years and is my fav) and get a ham and swiss. thank me later.

[diamondwerewolf]

The bread dog is so…so good if you know how to use it. His name is Kolache and he sets up the battle for my Mudsdale primarily.

He knows baby doll eyes, play rough, fire up, and baton pass in that order. Baby doll eyes always goes first, so I can bring the opponents attack all the way down and then baton pass it to my Mudsdale or paralyzing/flinching Pokémon. If they’re up against a dark type or dragon, the opponent goes down in one or two crit hits with play rough, so sometimes I don’t have to baton pass. Well baked body also means they aren’t affected by fire type moves.

My Mudsdale is named ChocBox(chocolate box). She knows iron defense, earthquake, body slam, and mega kick in that order. Her job is to hit as hard as possible when I need her to. With iron defense I crank her damage resistance ALL the way up.

The destruction after a dachsbun/Mudsdale wombo combo is RIDICULOUS. It’s so great, mudsdales can’t be made confused either, because of Own Tempo. So they can’t tank themselves.

[smilepal]

unusual asks; 8, 16, and 47?

Unusual asks for @rindemption 🥰🥰

8.) What would you say is your best quality?

The ability to focus on a task and work at it until I'm satisfied with it, and just keep trying. I'm determined damn it 😂 It doesn't matter if it's a job at work, or something more creative--I'm going to keep trying until I can be proud of my work. This has been challenging in college/having more work than I can dig into, and it's lately been an exercise in sometimes saying 'it just needs to be good enough' so you can move on to the next task. But in general, I'm happy to be able to pick a task and focus on it/get lost in the little details.

16.) Are you more like your mom or your dad?

Definitely a bit of both. I got a lot of my interests from my dad--history, fantasy/reading, cooking, ect and we're both introverts (who have an absolute distaste for parties and any sort of public speaking.) We definitely look alike too 😂 I discovered a picture of him in seventh grade, and my mom thought it was a picture of me at first. We both had this long blond, stick straight hair, and glasses. And we never seem to run out of things to talk about with each other, and are happy simply reading near each other. Me and my mom have an interesting relationship? I grew up around her a lot/underfoot while she was doing photo work/ got accustomed to doing my own thing, or being a 'photo assistant' so we're definitely close. But we also argue/bitch at each other like siblings. It's typically pretty good natured, but ho boy, our fights are loud and dramatic (and blow over equally as quickly.) We also have a lot of interests in common--art/fashion and hiking <3 As I've gotten older, there are definitely parts of her personality I've noticed--a healthy sense of protectiveness of my loved ones/friends and willingness to go to bat for them, and a tendency to favor a direct, rather than a passive-aggressive approach.

47.) What’s your favorite holiday?

Aaaa that's a hard one. I love Halloween--it has so many good things about it. Hard to go wrong with dressing up, lots of candy and spooky movies (and such tasty fall flavors). I also really enjoy Christmas with my family--a lot of them are amazing cooks and it's a chance to see my cousins/extended fam, who I don't see often. One of my favorite traditions is making homemade pirogi with my mom, aunt and younger cousin. We make enough to send to the entire family--60+ people, it's h u g e, and it tends to be an all day endevour. It's fun to spend time with them gossiping, and baking and cooking though, and it's something I always look forward to. We do a lot of baking too--almond braid, poppyseed bread and kolaches, and this alone makes the holidays worth it. And all the pretty decorations/ornaments too, and getting to have fires in the fireplace again/hot drinks. It makes the gross winters here almost worth it.

Thanks for asking!! 💖💖

[calliethompson]

I encounter a young woman working in a kolache bakery: Why I know she will succeed in life

 My wife and I recently traveled to Waco, Texas, to attend a dear friend's funeral. Our drive home to Baton Rouge took us through College Station, the home of Texas A & M University.

We had left Waco early in the morning without eating breakfast, and we were hungry. I pulled into a gas station near Texas A &M, which happened to house a kolache bakery.

If you've never eaten a kolache, you should search out a bakery that makes them. Kolaches are a yeast-roll pastry topped with fruit or stuffed with sausage. They originated in Czechoslavakia and came to Texas with the Czech immigrants who settled in central Texas in the nineteenth century. Texans are crazy about the Kolache, which is sometimes called a Texas donut. 

 I walked into the kolache bakery and ordered two cups of coffee and three kolaches stuffed with sausage, cheese, and jalapenos. I was served by an attractive young woman who welcomed me with a smile and a friendly greeting. 

The kolaches were delicious.  They were each topped with a thin slice of jalapeno that had been baked into the yeast roll. That little jalapeno slice was something extra--both a garnish and a message that these particular kolaches were stuffed with hot peppers. 

While we were eating, the young woman began conversing in Spanish with another employee who was diligently mopping the bakery floor.  I imagine they were brother and sister. How quintessentially Texan: a family-owned Hispanic bakery that specializes in Bohemian pastries. 

I noticed then that the woman who served me was wearing a t-shirt bearing the name of Texas A & M's Mays Business School. Undoubtedly, she was a business major at the university or an MBA student.

That woman will make a success of her life. How do I know?

First, she has basic work skills. Although selling pastries is a menial job, she did it cheerfully and professionally. She has the workplace skills that will serve her well, whether she spends her whole life selling kolaches or working for Goldman & Sachs.

Second, she is bilingual.  Texas is now a bilingual state--not at the level of Canadian Quebec, but the Lone Star State is rapidly heading in that direction. This woman's language skills will serve her well throughout her life.

Third, she chose to major in business--a major that will probably lead to a good job. Not for her those vacuous programs in the social sciences, education, or ethnic studies.  

Finally, this young woman is working while in college and probably has minimal student loans or perhaps no student debt at all.

I wish more college students were like the woman who sold me three kolaches. We would be a stronger nation if young people graduated from college with this woman's work skills, language proficiency, and an academic major that will prepare them for a good job.  

PS: Purists call a sausage-filled Czech pastry a klobasniky, but most Texans refer to fruit-filled or sausage-filled pastries as kolaches.

Is this a klobasniky or a kolache?

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[calliethompson]

I encounter a young woman working in a kolache bakery: Why I know she will succeed in life

 My wife and I recently traveled to Waco, Texas, to attend a dear friend's funeral. Our drive home to Baton Rouge took us through College Station, the home of Texas A & M University.

We had left Waco early in the morning without eating breakfast, and we were hungry. I pulled into a gas station near Texas A &M, which happened to house a kolache bakery.

If you've never eaten a kolache, you should search out a bakery that makes them. Kolaches are a yeast-roll pastry topped with fruit or stuffed with sausage. They originated in Czechoslavakia and came to Texas with the Czech immigrants who settled in central Texas in the nineteenth century. Texans are crazy about the Kolache, which is sometimes called a Texas donut. 

 I walked into the kolache bakery and ordered two cups of coffee and three kolaches stuffed with sausage, cheese, and jalapenos. I was served by an attractive young woman who welcomed me with a smile and a friendly greeting. 

The kolaches were delicious.  They were each topped with a thin slice of jalapeno that had been baked into the yeast roll. That little jalapeno slice was something extra--both a garnish and a message that these particular kolaches were stuffed with hot peppers. 

While we were eating, the young woman began conversing in Spanish with another employee who was diligently mopping the bakery floor.  I imagine they were brother and sister. How quintessentially Texan: a family-owned Hispanic bakery that specializes in Bohemian pastries. 

I noticed then that the woman who served me was wearing a t-shirt bearing the name of Texas A & M's Mays Business School. Undoubtedly, she was a business major at the university or an MBA student.

That woman will make a success of her life. How do I know?

First, she has basic work skills. Although selling pastries is a menial job, she did it cheerfully and professionally. She has the workplace skills that will serve her well, whether she spends her whole life selling kolaches or working for Goldman & Sachs.

Second, she is bilingual.  Texas is now a bilingual state--not at the level of Canadian Quebec, but the Lone Star State is rapidly heading in that direction. This woman's language skills will serve her well throughout her life.

Third, she chose to major in business--a major that will probably lead to a good job. Not for her those vacuous programs in the social sciences, education, or ethnic studies.  

Finally, this young woman is working while in college and probably has minimal student loans or perhaps no student debt at all.

I wish more college students were like the woman who sold me three kolaches. We would be a stronger nation if young people graduated from college with this woman's work skills, language proficiency, and an academic major that will prepare them for a good job.  

PS: Purists call a sausage-filled Czech pastry a klobasniky, but most Texans refer to fruit-filled or sausage-filled pastries as kolaches.

Is this a klobasniky or a kolache?

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