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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I’ve always been a fan of veggie burgers since I discovered them.
I do love my hamburgers (homemade, not fast food burgers. Bleh), but sometimes I just want a veggie burger.
When I was a college student, one of the restaurants on campus had these really good veggie burgers and curly fries. *sigh* I [...]
Now, I’m not a vegetarian.
I like my meat. I’m not much of a steak person, but more of a hamburger and meatloaf person…
However, that being said, I don’t like red meat every day. Maybe once a week or so.
I’m more of a fish/seafood kinda girl, really. Sadly, being so far from the [...]
Well, after almost three days of being sick, I’m finally feeling normal again today.
Enough so, that Hisa and I went lap swimming this morning. For whatever reason it was super crowded this morning. More than I’ve ever seen. It reminded me of pools in Japan. Always super crowded. Hisa and I ended up swimming [...]
Homemade sauerkraut, ready for some lacto-fermentation action!
What comes to mind when you think, “fermented”?
Hopefully it’s not “ewww”, because fermented foods can be incredibly tasty, not to mention they have a ton of health benefits!
Fermentation is the way most cultures all over the world preserved certain foods so they wouldn’t go bad [...]
My brother sent me a link to this recipe for cauliflower crust pizza, suggesting I try it out, a couple of weeks ago. I’d never heard of such a thing, but I was intrigued. Cauliflower as a substitute for bread. Who’d ever heard of such a thing? Would it hold together? Would it taste [...]

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