Nectarine Cake

So yes, when you come home from a foreign country, you want to cook all the things you ate there--to see if you can recreate the magic--but then you also want to cook something familiar: the kind of food you missed when you were abroad. The very first thing that I made when I came back from Barcelona was a tomato salad. Sure, there were tomatoes there in BCN, but I wasn't looking for a tomato rubbed on toasted bread with garlic and oil; I wanted big chunks of tomato with basil, olive oil...