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.
Want to know more? Check here.
|
I have a confession.
Stir-fries make me a little nervous.
Why you ask?
All that heat! You have to cook everything very quickly, and at a really really high temperature. The result?
Spitting oil,
excessive smoke,
smoke detector going off,
DOOM!
At least, that’s pretty much how it goes in my head.
In reality [...]
I’ve been on a big Southeast Asian food kick recently.
I always like Asian food, but recently I’ve been making it more often than usual.Especially Thai and Vietnamese food.
This recipe for Spicy Thai Peanut Noodles I originally found on Skinnytaste. I changed the chicken to shrimp and a few other things to suit [...]
Last Saturday morning I got the closest I’ve ever come to passing out.
It was the weirdest thing. I woke up first, and as my mom usually fixes breakfast on Saturday morning, I relaxed, read for awhile, set the table, etc. By the time we finally ended up eating breakfast (almost an hour and a [...]
I don’t remember the first time I had fish tacos. I guess it was probably a few years ago when they first started becoming popular.
I’ve always loved fish though, so I thought they were a great idea from the get go.
Making fish tacos myself, however, is a more recent thing. I think [...]
Hisa and I went swimming this morning, but it was not the most pleasant swim. Actually, it wasn’t pleasant at all, because the water was freezing.
The only reason I’m able to get up at the crack of dawn and go lap swimming when I’m barely awake, is because the water is always nice and [...]

|
|