Cooking with Eric!!!

It was great to see how Eric taught us how to cook today!
He moves so fast as you see the photo below.

Eric is going to make fried tempeh with veggee...

It looks like chinease food...!

We made fried greens with Amaranth leaves and swiss chard

This is Daikon salad with strawberry sauce

"Let me in!, I want to join you...! and I'm hungry..."Leo(the dog in front) says at the door between the kitchen and the office. He is so cute!!!!!

(We usually keep dogs away from the kitchen every time we have classes.)

Look at this Eric's food...
Cooking is ART!!!!!

Basics Cooking Class with Sanae & Eric

We had a macrobiotic basic class at the end of March that became second time.

I' ll show you one of examples which I'm sure will be good to know.

We made "Daily condiment" using carrot green tops and sesame seeds .

Carrots tops are one of the things that we usually throw away or don't know exactly

how to use, but this condiment adds a great touch to cooked whole grains!

I had never bought leeks before, and didn't know how to handle...

Eric is going to show how to wash and cut for today's soup.

This is "Lift up protein soup"~chickpea and spring vegetables with lotus root"

in which we put leeks .

This time, it was a small class , but everyone seemed to enjoy it.

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.....