This year my husband and I decided to have a quiet, low-key New Year's Eve. We wanted to spend it with our kids and other immediate family and make it a special 1 for them, instead of 2 a babysitter and going out on our own. The logical way to do this was through 3. As we all know, food had a magical way of making a night 4 ， and our New Year's Eve certainly 5 that way, thanks to doughnuts（甜甜圈）.
I decided to make doughnuts because my cousins had 6 a batch（一批）on Halloween and I found it very 7. I used a recipe from the 1976 Mennonite cookbook More With Less and it 8 a curious ingredient — two cups of mashed potatoes that 9 made the texture lighter. The doughnuts were 10 and cut from a sheet of dough（生面团），then left to rise until ready to fry in hot oil. Then they took several seconds to 11 ， which meant that my enormous batch of 100 doughnuts was 12 cooking in a fairly short time. We glazed（浇上浆液）the tops and then 13 them for the rest of the evening. The leftovers disappeared at breakfast.
This will become an annual 14 ， I have no doubt. Whether we host a bigger party or keep it small, there will always be 15 doughnuts, because when you have hot homemade doughnuts, you can't help but have the best time.
