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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When I made this lasagna recipe earlier this week, I informed my mother that one can use cottage cheese as a low-fat alternative to ricotta cheese in lasagna.
I then informed my mother that although I like cottage cheese very much, I wouldn’t be using it in the lasagna this time around, as I hadn’t [...]
I had realization the other day.
I say certain things that kids today probably would thing are weird.
For example:
“Roll the windows up/down.”
When I was a little kid, it was before automatic windows in cars were available, so we literally had to roll the windows up and down in our car. Even after [...]
I had something relevant and funny to talk about, but I’ve forgotten it in the pre-Christmas things-I-need-to-do-between-now-and-Christmas-morning rush.
Not that I really have that much I need to do, honestly.
My Christmas shopping is done (thank God; the current state of the malls frightens me), and all the gifts are wrapped and under the tree. [...]
As a quick notice, I’ve been working a lot on some big changes for this blog. Hopefully all good changes!
Keep your eyes peeled, and when it’s done, I hope you’ll all be pleased!
Now for today’s lunch!
Turkey sausage, egg, and cheese English muffin sandwich, half a small baked sweet potato, edamame, and half [...]
Hisa and I finally picked the day to move back to the U.S. and bought our plane tickets over the weekend! We’ll be moving back on December 6th!
We had a hard time finding tickets because A) tickets in December are expensive to begin with, and B) one-way tickets are a LOT more expensive than [...]

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