This year will be different than most as we celebrate at home and not camping like we did in 2019.
The Dutch government made it unlawful to shoot fireworks this year. I celebrated the no fireworks rule! Hopefully a new tradition as it would be better for the environment and better for those of us who suffer from PTSD.
So instead we decided to make some traditional Dutch treats. Oliebollen and appelbeignets. Known in English as oil ball donuts and apple donuts.
We did take the shortcut of making these from a box.

We started with the apple donuts.





We decided we would use our CADAC cooking system outside for this part of the process.



Then after we ate enough of those we just had to stuff ourselves with the next traditional donut. Oliebollen!






There is a reason we only eat these treats once per year. When we eat a few of these on New Year’s Eve we are really sick of them until the following year!
Happy New Year to our followers, friends and family. We wish all of you a healthy and happy 2021.
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Happy new year!
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To you too in NYC!
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💗💗
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That all looks pretty yummy to me! Happy New Year!
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Ohhhh… so good and now I have had enough of them!😂 🎉
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Wow they look so nice, Happy New Year
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We have extra, should I send you some?😂 Happy New Year in Aussie Land!🎉🎉🎉🎉
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I’m still waiting for a painting I sent to the UK on the 6 weeks ago. I’ll have some fresh ones in a few years when I come to visit
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Good idea! 😊
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Wow looks delicious! Happy new year!
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Finally finished them off today. Done until next New Year! Happy 2021 to you.😊
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Those look so good! And I’m glad that the Dutch government banned fireworks too. In St. Louis, people started shooting them off early in the evening (even though it’s illegal), and poor Finn was just terrified. Fireworks are hard on so many…people who were in active duty, animals who fear noise, and even young children. (I hated them when I was young because they literally hurt my ears.) Why do we have to celebrate in a way that is hurtful to others?
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Hummm… better (less fireworks) than in past years but not anything like it should have been. Why is it that people do unlawful things? The rules apply to everyone for a reason. Ok, done with that soapbox! I just think there are so many other ways we can all celebrate without being crazy loud, ruining the environment, spending billions on explosives each New Year! I hope that in 2021 we start putting those old ways into the history books and find more enjoyable less disturbing ways to bring them n the New Year or celebrate July 4th.
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Happy 2021 from southern Minnesota! This has to be a better year, right?
Those doughnuts look so delicious. But I understand the once-a-year is enough. I just baked a homemade chocolate cake for my grandson’s second birthday. About 3 cups sugar total went into the cake and frosting. Yikes. No wonder I seldom bake any more.
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😂 I know, that much sugar seems crazy. I stopped putting frosting on things several years ago for that very reason. I think my waist line was very happy about that!
As for 2021…
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That brought back memories – as a kid we would make the “oil” donuts on special occasions – usually when we were out in our tent trailer, thus our name for them “camping”. Happy New Year! (we observed the coming of the new year at a southern historic Civil War battlefield memorial)
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Sounds nice. The battlefield visit. Any ghosts? I have visited most of the bigger ones and some of them even in daylight give me the jeep’s
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Didn’t see anything mysterious while we were there, but there is something about those places that puts a dagger in the soul. I tend to imagine what it would have been like to cross those killing fields – both sides believing they were in the right with each soldier surviving by determination, sheer luck and the inconsistencies in ammunition prevalent in those times. On to happier locations!
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Amen!
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