RecipeMuncher

Festive cooking never fails to bring out the Kid in us - esp baking. The fun of loved ones milling about, shouts of laughter and arguments, kids running here and there makes us jump with utmost glee. Thanksgiving always reminds me of the Gingerbread Man, of course after Pumpkin Pie. I just realised that I had almost all the gingery bites posted. Right from Gingerbread to Gingersnaps to Ginger

"And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread. – William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost"

There are few recipes out there which make me re-incarnate an old saying into "Slow and Steady wins the taste"!! Some recipes are such. They take their own sweet time to blossom and develop, but when they do - their taste and smell etch an everlasting impression in your

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…