Hey there! 
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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Wow! It’s almost Halloween! I didn’t realize that until I looked at the calender earlier.
It’s a good thing I bought Halloween candy at the store yesterday. I thought about waiting until the Sunday before Halloween to buy it (which, I guess would be this coming Sunday), but I thought that all the good candy [...]
Few things smell quite as good as homemade bread baking in the oven.
Coffee, chocolate, and cinnamon come to mind, but that’s another post for another day.
Homemade bread baking just smells so dang good. If you’ve never made yeast bread, it’s almost worth it just to get that wonderful smell in your kitchen. [...]
I love scones.
I remember when my mom first started making them. She a got a recipe for them from someone at our church, I believe. I was in elementary school, and I’d never heard of nor had scones before. But from that very first scone I was in love. Fresh scones are hard [...]
I’m so glad it’s Friday!!
Between going to school part time, and working part time, I’ve become busy full time! This probably seems like a fairly obvious observation, but it’s true nonetheless. Yay Friday!
When I was kid, we sometimes went to McDonald’s. I’ve always hated their hamburgers, so when I was a kid, [...]
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 [...]

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