Saturday, April 07, 2007

Easter visit to Czechowski's



Since I was a boy, occasions like Easter and Christmas meant a run to Czechowski's for kielbasa. Back then, it was to Queen West and Euclid - there's a restaurant there now that has appropriated the name. It was run by two brothers. Later, they split and one of the brothers opened up on Queensway near Royal York Rd. It seems to me the business was sold along the way, many years ago. Back when I was a kid, Czechowski's on Queen St. was the only game in town for quality sausage, and I recall line-ups down the street a couple days before Easter. When I smell a chunk of kielbasa coming to a boil in the kitchen, my mind drifts right back to childhood.

Tuffy P hardly eats any meat; however, last year she declared kielbasa a vegetable (because the garlic content is so high). When pressed, she'll tell you it's a root. So we sometimes refer to it now as vegetarian kielbasa.

4 comments:

A said...

The smell of kielbasa is a great childhood memory for me, too. When Grandma died two years ago at the age of 94, we had a massive picnic after the service and grilled mountains of klobase, as it's called in Slovenia. It was a fun day and we're sure she'd approve.

Anonymous said...

I can't stop laughing, was Tuffy educated by Jesuits? Her logic is flawless, it IS a root vegetable!

mister anchovy said...

yeah, if she can figure out how to extract the kielbasa seeds, we're going to market those suckers and be rich beyond our wildest dreams.

Gardenia said...

You have all the good places up there.....Tuffy has the right idea...here's to the addition of kielbasa to the vegetable list!