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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When I make pasta for dinner at home, I have a tendency, like many people I think, to make tomato, cream, or tomato-cream pasta sauces. I’m not sure why this is. I guess I just like tomato-based sauces. Marinara sauce, meat sauce, vodka sauce (a tomato-cream sauce), etc. I love cream sauce, but I [...]
If you’re like me, then the idea of cold, leftover pizza is a horrifying thing.
But we all know people who’ve done it. Even more terrible, people who ate it, and enjoyed it. *collective gasp*
Do not fear the title of this post, fair readers, as I would never suggest you commit such a [...]
I used to not like thin crust pizza.
I was all about deep dish pizzas. Original/regular crust was okay too, but if I had a choice, deep dish was the way I always went. Something about all that lovely, soft yet chewy, delicious bread just made my day.
Not that I don’t still like [...]
I taught my first ever cooking class last Friday here at our apartment.
It ended up being a small affair with just a few people, but considering our apartment is quite small, and this was my first time to teach a cooking class, I was glad for the small size. It was more intimate [...]
Since moving to Texas [cue crashing lighting and horses neighing alla Frau Blücher] , Hisa and I have discovered a great lunch place: La Madeleine French Cafe. It’s a chain cafe, but has great food. My only complaint is that they’re always so loud, but, I dunno, maybe they’re going for authentic busy French bistro [...]

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