All Saints' Day Donuts

To celebrate the morning after Halloween Molly and Geoffrey hosted a donut and apple cider party in their back yard. If anyone reading this has the chance to cultivate friends from Michigan, I highly recommend it.

The donuts were delicious, and all of the guests clamored around to eat them as soon as they came out of the oil and into the carton filled with cinnamon and sugar.  They reminded me of the donuts that my grandpa used to make with leftover mashed potatoes from dinner. Eventually those donuts were so popular around our house that my brother would cajole my grandpa into cooking way more mashed potatoes for dinner than we could ever eat just so we wouldn't have to risk not having leftovers.

Sweet Lu

Lucy hangs out with her new friend Pippa

Geoffrey deep fries donuts in the back yard

 

Donuts frying in the cast iron skillet

 

The finished donuts, fried and rolled in cinnamon and sugar. It took many, many rounds of donut frying before any of the guests would hold their appetites long enough to let the donuts pile up like this.

 

Shaggy and Charlie with some hot apple cider

 

 

Emily, Lucy, and Erin

Erin with Teaberry

Gina and Jeremy, new parents of Eli

Eli Henry, one month old