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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Homemade chocolate chip cookies have to be my favorite dessert of all time. They’re a simple, humble dessert. There’s nothing gourmet about them. But when they’re fresh from the oven, warm and gooey (no crunchy, crisp cookies please), and served with a glass of cold milk… Ah, that is heaven my friends. At least [...]
You know those kind of days when you have a super strong chocolate craving, and you need something super chocolatey, and you need it now? I had one of those days recently. Rather than making the usual chocolate chip cookies or brownies, I decided I’d make something different using both chocolate chips and cocoa [...]
My fall pumpkin kick continues!
Yesterday I found myself with half a Japanese pumpkin (kabocha) and the desire to make something yummy with it.
I was also feeling kinda tired and bleh yesterday, so I wanted to make something fairly easy with said pumpkin.
Result: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Now if you’ve never had [...]
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 [...]

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