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  • A double rainbow arching over a rain-soaked interstate highway under a slate-gray storm sky, with a distant overpass and green trees along the roadside

    Friday Roundup #27

    ByKara June 5June 5 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • The El Rancho Grande neon sign glowing at twilight in Tulsa: a green and red sign reading El Rancho Grande Mexican Food with a neon cowboy, a lit marquee arrow above, on a brick storefront with the street receding behind.

    I Came Home From Tulsa Obsessed With a Jalapeño

    ByKara June 4June 4 Cooking, Travel

    : I came home from Tulsa obsessed with El Rancho Grande’s peanut butter jalapeños. The dish, the plan to recreate it, and a bacon-on-the-Kamado idea.

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  • The exterior of Notes of Marrakesh, a Moroccan restaurant visited on a Tulsa road trip

    Friday Roundup #26 (Live from Tulsa!)

    ByKara May 29May 30 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • Close-up of fresh white cape jasmine gardenia blossoms in full bloom, with bright yellow centers and dark glossy green leaves in the background.

    Friday Roundup #25 (Halfway to Tulsa Edition)

    ByKara May 22May 23 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Posted from the Napoleon Hotel in Memphis, with my feet up and something cold from the cooler. Well, y’all. I made it halfway. This week’s roundup comes to you from Memphis, where I’m crashing for the night before the second half of the drive to Tulsa tomorrow morning. My friend Anna is meeting me for…

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  • Chesapeake Bay & Charleston  – Vacation

    Chesapeake Bay & Charleston – Vacation

    ByKara September 29May 16 Recipes, Travel

    I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of the post). This past winter, in the middle of a…

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  • Austin, Tx | Spring Vacation

    Austin, Tx | Spring Vacation

    ByKara May 5May 16 Travel

    I had an opportunity to spend a little bit of vacation time in Austin last month. Although I was born in Dallas, I consider Austin my hometown; it’s where I went to high school and college and spent the most formative years of my life. Central Texas has always held a special place in my…

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the word "Travel" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Travel: The Good, the Bad, and the Mundane

    ByKara January 1June 1 Travel

    Not a travel blog. No destination guides or SEO itineraries; just honest accounts of real trips, the good, the bad, and the mundane parts.

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