Today is Fat Tuesday. Since I am Polish and Catholic (Gasp! Don’t mix religion and food Stef!) that olny means one thing for me today…Paczki!!! It is pronounced poonch-key. This Polish dessert is similar to a jelly doughnut-except better, because it is Polish and has no filling. You fill up on these fried bad boys today before you start the season of Lent tomorrow. My mom once told me a story about my Dziadzia (Polish for grandpa, pronounced jah-jah), where he tried to make a chocolate cake from a box and failed terribly. You see, my grandmother was working days and my mom forgot to tell her she needed a cake for a bake sale at school before she left for work. The next logical choice was to ask my Dziadzia to make the cake (ou would think). My Dziadzia came from the mentality that nothing is cooked until it looks cooked. So, he baked the crap out of this cake. My mom told him she could not take this cake to school for the sale; nobody would buy it. He tried to pawn it off on her saying,”This is how a cake is supposed to look!” My mom snuck …

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