NYC: Our winter wonderland

Despite a few cold snaps in New York, the winter has mostly been a mild one, prompting us to occasionally venture out of our warm apartment and into the wild world of NYC to enjoy activities such as: 

The Chinese Lunar New Year Parade

The famous Ping's Seafood (great dim sum)

The NYC Fire Museum

Part deux

Trying on snow glasses

Enjoying a playground in the posh Soho neighborhood (with next year's winter jacket)

part deux

Oh, also I made 'Gaufre de Liege' (waffles with large pearl sugar crystals)

Visit relatives

Fortified by waffles, we braved the elements and noticed that spring is beginning to, well, spring

The Botanic Gardens

See the crocuses (croci?)

Part deux

OK, we didn't venture out for this. I made 25 servings of baba ghanoush during naptime and ate it all in 10 days.

Nor this: H dressing up as a snowman (sans hat, carrot nose, and two eyes made out of coal)

And H now likes to line up his cars into a 'choo choo truck'

March Cookie of the Month: Biscotti

For the grandpas for the month of March we made biscotti. Although weak jaw muscles, small mouths, and a nervousness about biting into something that seems to be some form of rock make this very low on the list of a toddler's favorite cookie, the biscotti is actually quite a good pastry treat for kids of all ages. It is easy to make, it travels well, and, since it is twice baked, it keeps for long periods of time. In fact, according to a wikipedia page we didn't bother to fact check, Pliny the Elder boasted that such twice-baked goods could be edible for centuries. 

As you may know, "biscotti" is the plural form of biscotto. The word originates from the medieval Latin word biscoctus, meaning "twice-cooked/baked."

We hope the grandpas liked them....