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The other evening, the kids were playing outside, enthusiastically and energetically careening down our backyard mountain. Alex overshot the sled and slid down on his face. When he came inside, his head hurt, his mouth was a bit bloody, and…

Early this year, in March to be precise, I had written about BloggerAid Changing The Face Of Famine and their Cookbook Project.

"BloggerAid is a growing group of international food bloggers determined to make a difference in aid of world famine. The love of food and community that brings them together drives the compassion of its members to reach out to the world to help those less fortunate.

Do you feel it? Can you smell it? It’s in the air, growing ever crisper. It’s in the leaves, growing ever redder. And it in the cooking, which grows ever more warming. Autumn is upon us! I revel is all things autumnal; the changing leaves, the shortening days, wearing sweaters, the cool, crisp days, and the warm cooking and baking, especially. I love the flavors of autumn. Pumpkin, butternut squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, apples, oranges, pears, all of these flavors work in a way that, regardless of what goes on in your life and around the world, well…they make you feel happy.

One of my all-time favorite autumnal sweets (besides candy corn) is gingerbread. Not the cookies (though I love those, too), but the cake. However, I sometimes find it hard to find a suitable recipe. So many that I read extol the virtues of how there is “but a hint of spice,” or “a touch of ginger,” or “just a touch of molasses” to the flavor. Now, I don’t know about you, but w…