Happy Fat Tuesday!

Today is Fat Tuesday and a wonderful day to eat paczkis. Macri's bakery makes some amazing ones. They don't make them quite like the traditional ones, but these are even better. They essentially take the doughnut, cut it in half, put a layer of heavy whipped cream on the bottom half, add starberries and strawbery goo, add the top half, and make sure both sides get a coating of powdered sugar. Each one has about 800 calories. Absolutely freakin' amazing!!!

My mom had brought me some paczkis from Martins last night. Unfortunately, they weren't all that great. Don't get me wrong, they tasted pretty good as far as a regular custard filled powdered sugar doughnut tastes, but nothing close to the ones from Macri's. So I had decided to take a mid-afternoon stroll up to Peds to visit with the nurses. While up there, the nurse tech mentioned that Lori had brought in some of the paczkis from Macri's. My eyes got huge and I'm fairly sure I started drooling. She was then kind enough to offer one to me. And she brought it out in all of it's powdered sugary, strawberry, whipped cream deliciousness! I gave Lori a big hug and ran downstairs to devour it :-)

As I skipped into my room, I noticed a box from Macri's on my bedside table. I quickly ran over to it with breathless anticipation. And YES, there was ANOTHER strawberry paczki from Macri's!!!! "Holy crap, this is my lucky day," I thought excitedly. But there was no name on the box, just the word "Enjoy!" I quickly called several potential benefactors trying to figure out who I needed to thank with no such luck. I'm still not positive, but I'm fairly certain it was from the nurse in charge of my clinic. She's so sweet.

So I had a custard one from Martins last night, a lemon one from Martins with breakfast, a wonderful strawberry one from Macri's with dinner, and will eat the last one tomorrow morning. Tis a very merry Fat Tuesday!