Kolaches are the pinnacle of carb perfection ... Modern twists on all of these recipes add deli meat to the mix, or swap it ...

but kolache is still the word more commonly used for them. "Being in Texas, we're meat-heavy down here," Lennington said. Technically, the Texas kolaches are a Czech-American pastry known as a ...

The Texans set about bastardizing them, filling them with meat and other savory ingredients ... was swapped into the old family dough recipe that yields pockets soft and luscious. The shop is selling ...

(In Czech tradition, meat-filled pastries are actually called klobásníky, but we stubborn Texans refer to all varieties as kolaches.) We’ve become familiar with the Texas kolaches that ...