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I'm Rachel, a small-town girl from Oklahoma. I just came back to the U.S. after living in Japan for the past four years. I love all things food related, and am particularly interested in nutritional, whole-food cooking from scratch. Join me in my culinary adventures, my domestic doings, and the story of my life, one day at a time.
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Have you ever had kolache?
For that matter, do you know what they are?
I didn’t until we moved to Texas, and suddenly there are all these kolache places everywhere.
Kolache, pronounced ko-lah-chee, are a stuffed bun of sorts. From what I understand, they originate in Central Europe (namely the Czech Republic/Slovakia area), but [...]
I love my mom’s abundance of cookbooks.
She has your regular cookbooks (ex. the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, a crockpot cookbook, a Christmas food cookbook, etc.), some not so regular cookbooks (an Indian food cookbook, a Vegetarian food cookbook, etc.), and then some completely random cookbooks (a cookbook with traditional recipes from Somerset England, [...]
For those of you who don’t know how to make a Reuben sandwich… have never had a Reuben sandwich… or (dare I say it?) don’t know what a Reuben sandwich is…
This post is for you.
I had my first Reuben sandwich in years last night, and it was a lovely thing indeed.
Hey there [...]
When I made this lasagna recipe earlier this week, I informed my mother that one can use cottage cheese as a low-fat alternative to ricotta cheese in lasagna.
I then informed my mother that although I like cottage cheese very much, I wouldn’t be using it in the lasagna this time around, as I hadn’t [...]
I had realization the other day.
I say certain things that kids today probably would thing are weird.
For example:
“Roll the windows up/down.”
When I was a little kid, it was before automatic windows in cars were available, so we literally had to roll the windows up and down in our car. Even after [...]

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