It's been a long day today....it all began very early this morning when I hopped out of bed to pop out, remove the auto from the underground garage and place it in a restricted parking place out near the front entrance to this building. I am reserving a spot for the guests coming over for tonight's festivities. You're probably wondering what in the world I'm on about. Well, it is because of the parking situation here in the town centre. Parking in certain places is not possible without a parking permit for one's quarter of town. We have a private parking place under our apartment...it was purchased along with the apartment, so we do not need such a permit; however, when we have guests or workers coming to do work in our home they need to be able to temporarily park nearby the front door....so then the municipality sells temp. parking cards to facilitate this. Are you still with me? Right then If park outside, then I need to fill out the scratch card good for four hours, and place it in the auto's front window to avoid getting a ticket. So I had to do that first thing this morning. Of course we had to set the alarm on the tablet to warn us when the four-hour period was up to put a new card in. When the guests arrive this evening they will give me a call when they are near us and I will go back down, let them have the parking space and I will then return to my parking place under our apt. building. After brekkie then it was house cleaning and finally we biked down to the Red Stone (dead centre of the old city) to pick up our order of oliebollen with krenten (currents and raisins) and appelflappen. We ordered it yesterday and while it was beautiful, sunny weather all during the day, it had turned into a cold, grey and windy afternoon. We quickly headed off after our afternoon tea, stood in line for a short time at the oliebollen stand, and then headed back home with fire works going off all round us. We usually couldn't see who was setting them off, but one made our ears ring. Once back, we stalled out the oliebollen and appelflappen with powdered sugar. Coffee and teas cups at the ready and the basket of zoutjes (cashews, crackers and dips, etc) awaiting in the pantry for later in the evening. Oliebollen and appelflappen: Taken from the School paper of the Wesselink College website. We have to go and have a light supper sarnies now...I don't want to waste too much stomach room on regular food, now do I . Addendum: What are...? Oliebollen--dough balls with or without raisins. Appelflappen--circular dough with a thin apple slice inside. Served with sprinkled powder and cinnamon. Have lotsa fun tonight, good folks.
Sjoerd i'm still with you and I know the sort of apartment you have ….very nice food I must say and where's my invitation Well it's all be planned to detail nice one and all I can say is don't get going mad...best behaviour please at all times ….
Sjoerd I do hope you have a lovely evening with your guests. The pastries look tempting. We spent 4 nights over Christmas in Igls in the Tirol and one of the customs that I enjoy in Germany/Austria is Kaffee und Kuchen in a Konditorei. This was on our trip into Innsbruck on Christmas Eve. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU SJOERD AND ALL MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD, AND A HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2019
When we lived in upstate New York, we had neighbors whose ancestors were from Holland. My next door neighbor taught me to make olliebollen, and also a fried dough with raisins that was rolled in sugar when it came out of the hot oil. It was called risenbollen (forgive me if I spelled this incorrectly). I still occasionally make both, but only for special occasions. Happy New Year to you and your bride, and I hope you enjoy every mouthful of you luscious pastries!
Happy New Year my friend. We'll have a quiet night here although there will be fireworks going off all around us. Have fun with your guests and I hope you and your bride have a wonderful 2019.
CD---You sound like my first grade teacher! hahaha. Mate, it was delicious...and we had a bit left over. Oh, oh, oh.... (my Graham Norton imitation). GAIL--Thanks for your nice comments. As for that invitation...must have gotten lost in the Post. However if you ever do drop in, I'll feed you like you were a princess. I was pretty well behaved last night. Thanks so much RADDANG--You two were feasting like royalty weren't you. I like the food in Austria and Germany as well. The foto showing your spread was really good to see. Yum. Thanks also for your New Years' wishes for the Bride and I. JANE--How interesting that you had some Dutch relatives in up-state NY. I had some in up-state NY as well. Rozijnenbollen...Yes, I lurve those as well. Rozijn is raisin. A type of dried grape called sultana here. Hello dear EILEEN--Thanks so much for reading my thread and we hope that you and your man have a great coming year as well.
Sjoerd your welcome and I always say credit where it's due..preparation as you explained it was done to detail besides the food and very pleased to hear best behaviour was accomplished
