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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Few things smell quite as good as homemade bread baking in the oven.
Coffee, chocolate, and cinnamon come to mind, but that’s another post for another day.
Homemade bread baking just smells so dang good. If you’ve never made yeast bread, it’s almost worth it just to get that wonderful smell in your kitchen. [...]
Have you ever had kolache?
For that matter, do you know what they are?
I didn’t until we moved to Texas, and suddenly there are all these kolache places everywhere.
Kolache, pronounced ko-lah-chee, are a stuffed bun of sorts. From what I understand, they originate in Central Europe (namely the Czech Republic/Slovakia area), but [...]
I’m writing this post from my new desk at my mom’s office, where I’m helping out for the next few weeks.
It’s interesting to be working again. I haven’t worked full time in quite awhile now. I’m finding it difficult to fit in my workouts, cooking, and of course, blogging! I got up at 6:30 [...]
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 [...]
I was looking at Lucky magazine over breakfast this morning. Their spring shoe sandals section. *sigh* It really made me want to go shopping, bust out my spring clothes, and go to the beach.
Unfortunately, it’s still February, and although it’s been pretty warm here the past few days, it’s still not warm enough for sandals [...]

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