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April 10, 2005
Mystery Breakfast Food
Sara and I decided it would be a good idea to start the day with a Dunkin' Donut's iced coffee, so we drove on over to Bellaire this morning. While we were ordering our coffees and donuts, we noticed a sign for something called kalache (I'm not sure of the spelling here). It is apparently some type of breakfast dish, one that we've never seen before and suspect might be a Houston-only type thing.
Needless to say, I was intrigued (Sara was disgusted). I ordered one sausage and cheese kalache which the fine staff at DDs very helpfully warmed up in the microwave for me. It looked kind of like one of those butter cresent rolls that you pop in the oven for ten minutes and come out a nice golden brown.
Anyway, with quite a bit of anticipation I sunk my teeth into the kalache and inside, to my delight, there was a spicy little hot dog like sausage and the inside of the roll was coated with cheese! The best description we have been able to come up with is that it is like a mini pig-in-a-blanket, except the pig completely covered by the roll part. We have taken to calling it either a pig-in-a-tent or a pig-in-a-sleeping-bag.
Here are a couple of pictures; it will be interested to hear if any nohatnocattlers out there have had any experience with the kalache.
Posted by stan at April 10, 2005 03:24 PM
Comments
Oh Stanny, have we taught you nothing? First of all it's spelled "KOLACHE" and it's a Czech pastry. While traditional Kolache is filled with apricot, cottage cheese or poppy seeds, some wacky folks, like your friends at DD have taken to filling them with a variety of fruits, meats, cheeses and/or veggies as well. See how versatile those Czechs are?
There's even a whole festival devoted to it. Get in your fancy Taurus and head over to Caldwell, Texas (Kolache Capital of Texas) and the Kolache Festival (www.bc-chamber.com/ent).
See, if you have an open mind little Stanny, you can learn all sorts of things by living in Texas!
Posted by: Deb at April 12, 2005 10:09 AM
I read your entry on the kolache to alex and we thought it was one of your best posts ever. I, too, thought it was some mysterious texas breakfast food thing. how exciting. We want one now!!
deb's entry kind of bursts your bubble.
and why are they selling czech pastries at a houston dd?
--steph
Posted by: steph at April 15, 2005 08:59 AM