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While shopping at Trader Joe’s the other day, we headed over to the sample table. They had this simple yet delicious coleslaw available for tasting. I loved the spicy peanut vinaigrette with the crunchy peanuts and sweet raisins. My kids liked it too so I grabbed all the ingredients and decided to make it with dinner that night. I served it alongside chicken pot stickers. It was a quick and tasty

While shopping at Trader Joe’s the other day, we headed over to the sample table. They had this simple yet delicious coleslaw available for tasting. I loved the spicy peanut vinaigrette with the crunchy peanuts and sweet raisins. My kids liked it too so I grabbed all the ingredients and decided to make it with dinner that night. I served it alongside chicken pot stickers. It was a quick and tasty

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…