Texas Sheet Cake or Chocolate Buttermilk Cake from the old-school Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book. You get to boil things & then get cake!

Celebrating Mad Men’s season premiere with a 1963 Sunset Magazine recipe for broiled nectarine halves…or the Peach with no fuzz.

Tuesdays with Dorie makes cute as a Brownie Button

It’s my turn to pick this week’s TWD recipe! Classic Banana Bundt Cake is moist, easy and oh so delicious!

Garden jewels…Heirloom cherry tomatoes with pasta and basil

Special breakfast of Cinnamon-Oat Pancakes before a trip to Disneyland!

Ginger Spice Cookie with Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich.

Join me as I eat my way through a Japanese Buddhist Obon festival in Los Angeles. Starting with Okinawan Dangos (donuts)!

Enjoy these cute Rabbit Manju in three flavors from Piyonya in Kyoto. Special sale in a Los Angeles Japanese store.

Tuesdays with Dorie makes the Raspberry Blanc Manger. It’s like eating a cloud.

Peanut Butter Coffee Cake…a yummy breakfast treat.

Baked, not fried, donuts from the new Beach City Baked Donuts in Redondo Beach, California

Tuesdays with Dorie makes Tribute to Katharine Hepburn Brownies!

Donut or Saturn Peaches are used to make individual peach galettes for You Want Pies with That? challenge

Have a few bananas looking past their prime? Make Donna Hay’s Banana Cake!

Strips of egg for Japanese cold somen noodles. Summer = Cold Somen!

Donna Hay’s Chocolate Sponge Cake filled with strawberries and Nutella

Bon Appetit’s Ginger Spice Cookies…filled with both ground and crystallized ginger.

Fruit Buckle made with awesome mango flavored nectarines. It tastes like summer.

Delicious Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Cake that is perfect morning, noon and night.

Ellie Krieger’s double soy Edamame Hummus

On my way to making Gourmet’s fresh Cherry Upside-Down Cake