Growing Snowflowers

Chinese Moon Festival - 'abridged version'


Well okay, we tried. First off I decided to find mooncakes, so I drove 40 minutes to an Asian food store that was 'sold out', no problem, I picked up a few things that we can't find in our regular store, so the trip wasn't entirely for naught. If you are a Kiwi or an Aussie...I found MILO!!!! Can you believe it!

Then we decided we'd make our version of moon cookies...our neighbour Kristine makes these disgustingly delicious thumbprint cookies with a Reeses peanut butter mini in the middle...I know, it's awful, but it's delicious, so I asked how to make them...easy enough but I didn't want to have to buy a mini muffin pan just to make them so I scrapped the idea entirely!

We decided to eat Chinese food then go to Caribou coffee and have a 'moon fluffy'...okay, that's lame, but we were looking for ANYTHING moon-like to emphasize that we hadn't forgotten! Piper was pretty stoked to have not only a fluffy (kids cocoa) but that she got to have a chocolate covered pretzel too! Sorry mooncakes, chocolate wins over lotus paste!

It's pretty cloudy in Minneapolis today, we spotted the moon for a mere 2 seconds before it retreated behind it's cloud cover...maybe next year!

We did read 'round is a mooncake' and 'Papa, please get the moon for me'...that'll just have to do it. Next year we'll try harder!