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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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Do you like flan?
It’s super popular in Japan (they call it “pudding” though, not flan), but it seems like you don’t see it all that often in the U.S. Of course you can buy flan, and I’ve seen mixes for it, but it’s not really on the same level as things like chocolate [...]
Few things say summer quite like a berry trifle.
I was a bit late on the game, as I made this in September, the end of summer (depending on what part of the country you live in of course), but it doesn’t cool off here until like November, so I think this is allowable.
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I turn 26 today.
Yes, it’s my birthday.
I’m not sure how this happened…(the turning 26 part, not the birthday part).
I mean, I was just 21!
Now I’m 26?
Over the hill of my 20′s?!
Closer to 30 than to 20?!?!
I feel woozy…
I think I better have a cookie.
I don’t [...]
If you instantly recognized the title of this post as being from The Lion King, then you have my congratulations. You’re a person after my own heart.
For people of my generation who grew up in the 90′s, it was the golden age of Disney animated movies. We got all the good ones: Aladdin, The [...]
If there’s something this world can never have too much of…
it’s banana bread.
Considering that before 1870 (ish), Americans had never even heard of bananas, it’s quite amazing when you think about how predominant in our food culture they’ve become in such a relatively short amount of time (banana pudding, bananas foster, banana [...]

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