Cookie of the Month: October - Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

It's October already?

Yes, light a harvest-scented candle and put on a sweater, because it's the best season of the year! And for the kids' grandparents this month, they helped us make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. (As you know, we’re doing a year of chocolate chip cookies … even though I think this recipe would have been better with butterscotch chips. But maybe that’s just me….)

With the pumpkin and the warming spices, like cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger, these cookies are full of fallish flavor. But they are admittedly a bit moist. Well, wet. You see, pumpkin is mostly water. And we used a huge can of pumpkin. I double-checked the recipe for the size of the can and, because it said 'one can,' I thought we'd be fine. Well, they’re certainly not bad, but they’re more like muffins than cookies. Still not bad, right? To make them better, I recommended whipping up some frosting and making whoopie pies out of them.  

The September 2014 edition of "At home in NYC"

Why, hello there. In this special and somewhat late edition of "At home in NYC," we bring you some photos from times past ... a few weeks ago ... when we were all younger and the weather was warmer.

Events in September included:

My half-birthday.

Soccer practice!

School begins!

We spent a few hours with Aunt Breanna and Uncle Brian at the Maker Faire in Queens (it's the 'Greatest Show and Tell on Earth' and was HUGE, but since Elizabeth threw up on the way there (motion sickness) and Henry had a cold and was a bit grumpy and then fell asleep in my arms, we cut our losses after seeing roughly 10% of the event.)

Walking in the Ragamuffin Parade, one of Bay Ridge's oldest traditions ... it's a kids' costume parade and the kids thoroughly enjoyed it. (The costume idea started as H being E's doctor and treating her arm. Then, as you can see, it morphed into a vet clinic.)

One last time at Coney Island. Actually, this was at Brighton Beach (a Russian neighborhood a few blocks down the boardwalk) and there were still a few babushkas in the water.

Harvesting our crops ... this is a pretty grody looking carrot.

We FINALLY made a trip to the Statue of Liberty

H was into holding his face in place ... he's holding a smile now

Now he's holding open his eye