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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 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 [...]
There are few things more wonderful than a properly made chocolate dessert.
The reason for this, is because there are few things more wonderful than good chocolate.
Chocolate is your friend. And mine. Good friends. Tasty too.
Just don’t try to eat your other friends. If you do, people will start calling you [...]
For Valentine’s Day the past couple years, I’ve made heart-shaped chocolate chip pancakes. First of all, their incredibly cute, and it somehow seems very fitting to have something with chocolate in it for breakfast (or maybe this is just my excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast…). This year, I made them extra special by [...]
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 [...]

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