Making Mashed potato donuts, and what a great pictures from Botanic Gardens of Sale, Victoria, Australia. Christmas is soon. Are you ready?

First step in making mashed potato donuts dough is going to rise.  

images from the Sale Botanic Gardens 

Look at this date, Tuesday Dec 23rd.   No, I am not ready for Christmas.  Today and tomorrow, I will make my raised potato donuts.  They will be for Christmas morning.  Long, long time ago, I made 4 batches of donuts and gave out 35 food baskets on Christmas Eve.  They were fresh and now I wondered how I did it. Now I do about 6 food baskets.  I have been making these for our 50 years of marriage.  The recipe for the fried donuts has mashed potatoes in them, so they are soft.  That is one of my Christmas traditions.  Just like you have some.  Cut out sugar cookies, wrapped bacon little smokies, fudge and just some I have heard from you about.  The wrapping is almost done.  Then I will also cook for Christmas day tomorrow.  But I love to cook and bake.  We will be with family at Christmas.  That will be the best part.  Hope all of you have a family filled Christmas holiday. We are blessed to have the baby Jesus born for us. 
 
Australia friends and family for their Christmas holiday I was told “we are going to have a cool Christmas with it warming up again next week.  I like it when it is milder weather when we get together. It makes for more pleasant visit.” Evelyn wrote. Temperature high for their Christmas Eve Dec 24th will be 69F(20C) and their Christmas day will have a high of 63F(17C).  They will have windy conditions.  Stay cool, stay safe. 
 
I am posting two different worlds.  You see the donut dough at the first raising.  I will let it rise 2 to 3 hours.  Then I will cut them out.  I will post those pictures as I do them.  Second picture is from the Sale Botanic garden, and it is fun to see color and green.   

Love the beautiful pink flower carpet of the Brachychiton bicolour, commonly known as the Lacebark Tree or Pink Kurrajong created as the flowers fall from the tree to rest on the ground. 
A native tree to northern New South Wales and  Queensland it has adapted to growing in the cooler southern climates.
Interestingly the leaves drop off as the trees begin to flower. As the flowering season approaches the end, the leaves begin to reappear.
Taken from the Sale Botanic Gardens, Sale, Victoria, Australia
Till next time this is Becky Litterer, Becky’s Greenhouse, Dougherty Iowa [email protected]  641-794-3337  cell 641-903-9365  Beckysgreenhouse.com  Facebook Becky Kerndt Litterer or Becky’s Greenhouse