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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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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 [...]
The store I always buy butter from has been out of butter for several days now.
And I need butter.
Every other store’s butter is super expensive.
Why is butter so expensive in Japan?
This perturbs me.
I like the word perturb. It’s fun.
The dictionary defines perturb as: “to disturb or disquiet greatly in [...]
I love pancakes.
I also love waffles (not the thinner crispy kind, but the thick, soft Belgium waffles), but due to my current lack of a waffle maker, I make due with just pancakes.
Pancakes, like muffins, are so versatile. You can add so many things and make so many kinds.
Around this time [...]

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