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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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I love bread. Especially hot fresh bread right out of the oven. There’s something magical about it really.
I also love cheese. Oh, cheese. How wonderful you are in all your many forms! Soft, hard, gooey, creamy, and best of all, melted.
So when you combine fresh hot bread, and gooey delicious cheese to make [...]
I think the typhoon completely missed us, and hit western Japan instead of here.
Talk about a let down. They’ve been talking about the how the typhoon was going to us for days, warning us every day to take precautions and to try not to venture outside today and tomorrow. I was actually hoping the [...]
Despite just getting back home yesterday from vacation, I did manage to make Hisa’s lunch this morning. This is one of the advantages to having things available in the freezer. Last time I made calzones for dinner, I made double the amount and individually wrapped and froze all the extras. Yesterday I took one out [...]
It’s gradually been heating back up here in central/Eastern Japan. Several weeks ago we had a typhoon come through, and although it was bad for a lot of cities on the coast where it hit, here a bit further inland, it simply rained a lot and then got blissfully cool. I’m talking about a high [...]

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