Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Paczki Day!

Fat Tuesday coincides with the Polish American celebration, Paczki Day. Paczki (pronounced poonch-key) are essentially jelly donuts. While the donuts don't seem too unique from your ordinary bakery donuts, the holiday gives you an excuse to indulge and bring home a box full of jelly and cream filled pastries. Yum!

My fiance grew up celebrating Paczki Day every year. My fiance is from the Detroit area in Michigan, where there is a large Polish community. As a result, many surrounding bakeries prepare paczki for this special day. Here in Seattle, they're a little harder to come by...but we discovered Metropolitan Market carries paczkis!

Now, buying a box of paczkis and eating them together has become a sweet tradition we celebrate together. Celebrate with us and go grab yourself a paczki (or just a donut and claim it's one!)

{pictures of the paczkis we picked up at Met Market}
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10 comments:

  1. GinaMarch 8, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    That word is fun to say!! Any holiday that celebrates something yummy is ok in my book :)

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  2. Monika - Twoja AsystentkaMarch 9, 2011 at 2:20 AM

    I am from Poland I we truly eat a lot of paczki here. But I don't like, them. I prefer faworki - I don't know if you know faworki. They are delicious and crunchy.
    You can read about them here: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43216.asp

    and here you can see how they look like: http://bialczynski.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mak-faworki.jpg

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  3. VivianMarch 9, 2011 at 2:56 AM

    Sounds like a delicious tradition, thanks for sharing about this! Doubt I can find Paczki in Japan, but thanks for giving me an excuse to eat a donut!

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  4. Diana MieczanMarch 9, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    We also eat paczki each year with Balazs. Its such a cool tradition:) Those look really yummy! Kisses, sweetie

    Ps: I’m hosting a charming jewelry GIVEAWAY today! Hope you’ll join in:)

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  5. LMarch 9, 2011 at 11:34 AM

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  6. LizMarch 9, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    aw this is so sweet! and this makes me want a donut really, really bad!

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  7. sensiblyluxeMarch 9, 2011 at 8:57 PM

    I have never had one, but these look delicious.

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  8. kelli g. { bug miscellany }March 10, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    ack! i grew up in metro Detroit, and i didn't even KNOW it was Fat Tuesday this week, because there weren't any signs advertising Packzi sales. hahaha.

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  9. HollyMarch 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    i love little traditions like this!

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  10. Urban ScarletMarch 10, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    ooo, i've never heard of these treats... now i must hunt some down and try for myself! www.urbanscarlet.com

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