Hijiki, dried daikon....

✤ sauteed hijiki ,Japanese sweet potatoes , red swiss chard stems, asparagus, and cilantoro.

Dried daikon and daikon greens pasta( angel hair)

✤Boild greens .

Boiled navy beans with vegetables(carrots and burdocks)

✤Abbey and Chris. Abbey is a comedienne who is learning macrobiotic cooking little by little .

Kris is going to take a hiking trip on Pacific Coast Trail for five months, and he prepared the dehydrated food all by himself !!

✤Abbey seems so interested in ceramic daikon grater.

We are having fun cooking, come and join us!

Yukiko

New Thursday Cooking Class

We started our new cooking class on every Thursday.

You must bring one to two items that left in the refrigerator and in the pantry and the item you are interested in or don't know how to cook with. We show you how to cook using all what you brought.

It's so much fun because we have no idea what we are going to make, but the food taste so good and it's like a magic!!!

Hope you joint this class with us.

These are what we made today:

✤ Kabocha , Taro potato and onion soup

✤Arames , Burdocks, beets Kinpira
✤ boiled greens
✤ pasta with lotuses and mountain potatoes sauce. We add carrots and leeks in the sauce.

Natural Products Expo West

Last Sunday, we went to the Natural Product Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center.

There were so many products to see.....

This is one of them that Eric stopped by to see, he seemed so interested in the beautiful wooden mill.

There were many books for sale about food. These are the ones I bought.

I think I'm going to be more careful about the foods we usually eat and I want to learn more about it through the books.

Basics Cooking Class with Sanae & Eric

We had a macrobiotic basic class at the end of last month, February.

These are the ingredients for miso soup. ( mountain potatoes, daikons, lotus roots, burdocks. carrots)

We show how to make goma-shio condiments for rice.

We started to sell them at seed, recently.
Sanae is giving the lecture about yin and yang
It was educational and fun!

Spring is on the way...

Last week we picked greens from roof-top garden at Studio mugen for our cooking class.

We picked Italian parsley, orange flowers, asparagus and dandelion leaves.

We cooked with these greens in our cooking. We made pressed salad with daikon, red raddish tops and carrots seasoned with lemon, apple juice and salt.

We also made whole wheat pasta salad with sauteed vegetables (red onions, yellow onions, snow peas leaves, lotus roots, carrots, seasoned with balsamic vinegar and salt).

Steamed rolled tofu with chestnuts cream sauce:

Creamy Japanese yam soup:

After cooking class we got puppy's therapy....

Jessica Porter with the puppies.....

Amazing Story About Kona

Eric and Sanae are known for having a house full of golden retrievers, but what many people don't know is that Sanae fosters golden retrievers with Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles and donates her pups to organizations like Paws'itive Teams and autistic foundations.

One of their special goldens, named Kona, has gone on to do amazing things for one young man named Patrick.



Patrick was paralyzed as a toddler and has lived most his life in a wheelchair. But, this doesn't stop him from living an exciting life and doing his favorite activities now with the help of Kona and friends.

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Pepole at Seed (1): Jose Sanchez

Hi, everyone! Today, I would like to introduce one of our assistant chefs, Jose Sanchez.

At the age of 23, Jose comes from one of the most well known cuisines. Especially here in Los Angeles. That’s right! Tacos, burritos, enchiladas, tamales, you name it. Coming from a Mexican background is truly a blessing in his eyes. Former employee of M café de Chaya, he became conscious of the toll his diet was taking on his body.

Then, he totally changed his lifestyle when he started working at Seed. He became a vegan-macrobiotic activist. Eating lots of vegetables and grains is his way of reaching out and voting for awareness towards global warming, sustainability and of course animal rights! No better way than to do it yourself.

Jose has become a huge fan of Yoga, outdoor running, and indoor cycling. He tries to squeeze in a work out at least 4-5 times a week. He participated in the L.A. marathon last month and is continuing his races every other week throughout the year. Follow him on Facebook.

Now, living a macrobiotic way of life, he is not only focusing on his physical health, but also concerning about an ecological lifestyle.

Plastic cups are not his thing. Jose enjoys collecting unused glass jars from jams, pickled foods and reusing them as his drinking container. You will see him walk around everywhere with one thinking it might be something strange. It’s only kukicha tea, so don’t be worried.

One of his many goals/dreams is to star in the revival of RENT on Broadway, of course whenever it is time for another run. He is taking acting classes at Santa Monica College now to help truly master his craft.

His message to us is this:

“Stay out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself with something new. Laugh at fear.”

We are apt to be “normal” as we are getting older, but he seems to be suggesting living a life with passion to feel alive.

I hope his dream will come true.

Nobu