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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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When I make pasta for dinner at home, I have a tendency, like many people I think, to make tomato, cream, or tomato-cream pasta sauces. I’m not sure why this is. I guess I just like tomato-based sauces. Marinara sauce, meat sauce, vodka sauce (a tomato-cream sauce), etc. I love cream sauce, but I [...]
Okay, first of all, let me just say, these cauliflower fritters are awesome.
I know what you’re thinking. Cauliflower fritters? That sounds kinda…ew.
I wasn’t sure what to expect with these either, but they far exceeded my expectations. These are delicious. After making pizza with a cauliflower crust, I should have realized the wonders [...]
If there’s one thing I love, it’s Japanese tofu hamburger steaks (called “tofu hanbahgu” or tofu hamburg).
Heck, there’s a lot of things I love from Japanese cuisine. Teriyaki salmon, inari sushi, sushi in general, grilled eel, curry rice, korokke, tempura, chestnut rice, kabocha… I could go on and on, but I’d probably start [...]
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 [...]
If you’re cooking dinner for a crowd, or want something classic and delicious that everyone will like to take to a potluck dinner; you can’t go wrong with scalloped potatoes with onions.
I made this for Easter to go with our Easter ham, and they were soooo good.
It’s hard to go wrong with [...]

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