We were pretty lucky this season. At least in New York, towards the tristate area, since that is the only area of the country that I can speak of with any sort of authority and credibility. We had quite a lovely winter. I'm serious. The weather was surprisingly warm (I mean, "warm"), and snowfall? Non-existant. Maybe this global warming thing isn't so bad...okok, I'm kidding. Let's not get into the whole global warming things right now. It's too political and to be frank, I am not the least bit interested in discussing politics at 9 am on a Friday morning...or most of the time for that matter, to be perfectly honest. I just hate having to trudge around the Columbia campus and New York City for the most part when the ground is covered in a nasty, gray blanket of "wintery-mix"...you know, that blend of sleet and snow and rain that just ends up getting super dirty on the ground...ew. Just ew. HOWEVER...we didn't have any of that at all this winter! Save for that really random snowfall we got on Halloween weekend, New York City was completely devoid from winter snow. That's my kind of winter!
Manco "Colada" muffins. I put "colada" in quotes because there's no alcohol in these muffins, which only makes sense I think. Booze is totally alright in cupcakes, but in muffins? Nah, that just sounds kinda strange to me I think. But anyway. I actually made these muffins a couple of weeks ago, while I was still at home during winter break, obviously in denial that it was actually still "winter," and I wanted to make something that reminded me of spring or even better, of summer! Sounds like a totally legit reason to bake up some mango "colada" muffins in the middle of January right? There was also the fact that my mom came home one day with a giant cardboard box containing something like...ten mangos.
"Surprise! Here you go, make something with mangos!"
"Uhhh, sure mom, ok!"
