Homemade Lemon Cake

I picked this out for the big splash dinner on my recent trip to the north end of the central California coast (spoiler alert--I prefer the...

I had an arduous birthday in 2023, when my friend and I bakes all the cakes for one of my sons wedding, all while my spouse was gone for th...

There I was, in the middle of an atmospheric river-something that sounds so lovely and is really a climate catastrophe, trying my hand at b...

We love the Hong Kong Lounge II, also a dim sum restaurant and also on Geary St, but it was time for a change. The problem with 2 people ...

On a recent trip to Northern California, we happened upon a wild fire that was not yet under any sort of control, including not having yet...

I recently had the pleasure of eating in this restaurant, which is the best bold American food that I have eaten in Fresno (I have to excl...

 Art has so many permutations.  I love to see things that I could not do or make or even think of.  I love the highly detailed art of the ...

On a recent trip I realized that I had sold San Diego short.  I am not a beach person.  I like a bucolic water view almost as much as the ...

 We ate at this great restaurant in San Diego on a recent trip.  This is my birthday dinner for this year, and it was all kinds of wonderf...

On a recent trip to San Francisco we stayed at this wonderful bead and breakfast in the Mission.  Breakfast is not a great meal to have in...