Have you ever heard of a kolachi?
It is pure deliciousness,
all wrapped up in a pastry.
The Kolachi is a pastry brought over to
rural Texas by Czech settlers in the 1800s.
My best friend is from Texas and ever
since she introduced me to this delightful
delicacy I've been looking for a
colachi Baker and lucky for you and me,
Texas transplant Harvey Foreman is
bringing the tradition to the PNW
with a flying kalache in Stanwood.
Thank you for being with us.
Oh my pleasure.
Already brought me my own apron
because we're gonna get to kalachi
making right now right?
So grow quick question.
Did you grow up eating kolaches?
No, I didn't start.
I'm not originally from Texas.
When I got to Texas was 3538 years ago.
Every place you go they have
kolaches bakeries, donut shops.
They sell more kolaches than anything
else and I fell in love with them.
And so when you came here you said.
Where's the kalachi? Where's the kolaches?
And nobody knew what I was talking about.
It was like I'm from the void, yeah.
So I 35 years ago.
Yeah, I met this older woman
who adopted me as her grandson.
I love it and she was a clatchy champion.
Ohhh in Grandview TX so.
She taught me how to make hot.
She did, and there's
a lot that goes into making
kolaches. So yeah, let's
let me one thing first.
Yes, they also make them
in Minnesota and Nebraska.
And if you ask anybody from Minnesota,
they have the largest check population.
And if you ask them from Nebraska,
they have the largest check population.
And if you talk to anybody in Texas,
they have.
Of course you know of course because
everything's bigger in Texas,
everything's bigger in Texas. The original
ones did not have anything but fruits.
They had a poppy seed apricot plum.
And walnuts OK, so
you are also making some
that are more savory.
But let's get started and
those are from Texas, right?
And obviously they take some time.
You have to do this in stages.
Let's talk about the dough because we've
got some video here of of how it all works.
How's the dough? How?
How do you get it together?
OK, so the dough is a sweet bread dough.
It's it is actually grown
in Eastern Washington,
and we can tell which grower grew them.
After the dough rises,
we put it on this red.
Great, OK, that you see there in the
machine and it makes 36 stove balls
in six seconds and six OK, that's the way
to watch it. OK, you press it down you.
That's the cutter blade and then that
rolls them right there. Ohh how fun.
Yep, so these over here on the table.
Yeah they were more round than up.
OK they were drive here, they sunk.
It's always the way alright.
So once you've got the dough balls ready,
how do you? How do you fill them?
OK, so we have the fruit ones OK,
and those are topped right.
This look like these gut tops,
so we take the take a dough ball OK,
and then we take this measuring cup
and we make a circle and like a
little indentation. Oh that's cool.
And then we fill it with over
here like this is cream cheese.
This is apple.
And we make all of our own feelings.
Ohh you do. Yeah
I do. Did I get enough in there?
I put a little more OK and when
the dough is new IT sinks down
more so you can get even more ohk.
OK, alright and then we have
Raspberry we have we made 64
varieties 64 varieties so if
there's anything you want stuffed.
Or fruit wise we can make it.
I wanna make another one what
does that really dark color
right there? This is cherry ohh
my gosh cherry favorite.
Yeah, so all smushed down OK,
you gonna hire me. How am I doing?
Sure, you're doing great. All right.
Fill it up a little more, OK?
And then how do you make the
same for Chino cherry over there?
OK and put it on top
and put it on top? That's the only
part we don't get from Washington OHP.
How cute is that? I love it.
Alright, so how do we make this
everyones? Yeah alright so.
This there is a right here.
Little rolling pin OK. And.
We just letting them out
flatten them out at the shop.
We have an attachment to our
KitchenAid that does it for you.
Yeah it makes like pasta. Oh my
gosh, oh, I know what you're
talking about. Just goes through.
It goes through it OK and flattens
it and the dough is like I said,
this is our older done now because
we came from Stanwood and stuff.
I love that y'all came from
Stanwood Forest. That means so much.
So you take some cheese OK?
And put a little cheese on there.
OK, a little too much. OK, OK,
and then I'm already fired. Yeah
no, you take one of those.
OK and you put it on there.
Alright, this is what I was used
to from Texas. This is what
my girlfriend always brings me when
I come over and I'll stay at her
parents house and she'll bring them for
breakfast and we all. Yami, kolaches
so. Anyway, when the toes
come when the dough is good,
it rolls up nicely to one of these.
It looks like one of those, right?
So tell me about the flying kolache.
You said that you made how
many different flavors?
I mean, you have 67 flavors,
67 flavours everyday,
no, no no OK. Let's see seven regular.
Fruits and then beautiful wife right there.
Yep, that's my beautiful wife and then
seven with a cream cheese around it.
Ohk OK. And then we make 8 savories and
then we make them for breakfast also.
So that's a display. Of in our we're
going to need you to expand
the flying kalachi to Seattle.
We were here. We started off
in Fremont and then we were
in Pike Place for three years.
Oh my goodness, outside across
from beechers cheese and a tent.
I had no idea. Yeah. And then what
happened was they changed the rules.
That always happens.
Yeah, and all of a sudden we
didn't have a farm so I said,
well, what happens if I?
Yeah, go ahead, try it.
Yep, I'm not sure which one it is, but Angus?
Well that's a hot sausage ohh.
Hot sausage and cheese.
And we make them with helenos.
And actually that's the
biggest seller in Texas.
There's the jalapeno is the jalapeno.
That's the biggest seller here.
The jalapeno breakfast.
So it's got a hot sausage,
jalapenos.
It's got potato,
egg and cheese,
and that sounds amazing.
I got to tell you the sweet
bread with the the spicy so good.
Oh my gosh, thank you so
much for coming up here.
Oh my gosh, the flying.
Ohh I hope we see you again soon.
And would again has that rotating
menu of sweet and savory kolaches.
You can find their feature
favorites on their social media
and we've got it all linked on our
website, so you can just go there.