Macrobiotic Diet Thanksgiving is So Easy! Hints 4 U!
Can you believe it’s almost Thanksgiving? Just one week, and you sit down to dinner with guests at your very own table! Are you ready?!!
Perhaps these hints will smooth your holiday weekend, and you will truly enjoy yourself and your company!
Ready your table soon as you can! We did it today, one week out! Extra leaves, table pads, tablecloths – and the folding chairs are all in place! Reconfirmed the guest list – we’re all set knowing our numbers! Believe it or not, this took a good 3 hours, and we gladly checked it off our to-do list!
This organization maximizes my cooking time which is important since all our dishes are prepared fresh Thanksgiving Day! No cooking a week or so early and freezing these beautiful vegan and macrobiotic dishes. Our 5 o’clock dinner time is easily met, and we also will have served breakfast and lunch to our visiting family and friends – with us, numbering 7!
Errands, shopping, personal paperwork are up to date! Especially with family coming in town, we complete everything else to truly focus on this wonderful time together, and sharing special places in Atlanta. Five extra folks staying with us means readying guest rooms – checking closet light bulbs, shelves, sprucing up the bedrooms! Guest bathrooms too, well-stocked 2 weeks out!
Now, the meals. Thanksgiving is my very favorite holiday! Loving the tastes, gatherings and wonderful historical story of sharing harvest. Thanksgiving memories shared across this great country.
Well, I’m ready to start cooking, having shortened my preparation time considerably, and you can too.! I call it prepping, just like I prep for my macrobiotic cooking class! That’s right! This Sunday just before Thanksgiving, I’m giving a Vegan and Macrobiotic Cooking Class for Thanksgiving and I have just completed measuring all non-refrigerated ingredients. Set on individual trays for each of the 8 recipes we will make in the class. That’s the trick! Each tray holds the recipe and ingredients of a single dish, copied from my macrobiotic cooking class Thanksgiving recipe handout, so it’s easy to identify each dish. Here’s an example. For ease, the pumpkin pie actually has two trays: one holds ingredients for the filling – the different spices, the kabocha squash; the second tray separately holds the flours & the rolling pin for my famous pie crust, with room for the additional items we add Sunday morning.
Getting a jump on gathering these ingredients, and leisurely measuring ingredients saves so much time Thanksgiving Day. Giving me one more chance to ensure my recipes are understandable, and all ingredients made the final shopping list. We shop early Friday morning for my Sunday class. Before the crowded weekend, and by then we know our final numbers for the class, and the produce is still exquisitely fresh for Sunday! Early morning class day I gather all refrigerated items, adding them to trays before starting to prep each dish. And we’re off and running!
And you can do this too! Turn on your favorite music, get to grooving around your kitchen, pantry, dining room, and wherever else you may have extra table space. We set up two extra card-tables in our living room, so our 23 guests will sit in close proximity, and those tables are holding my trays for my macrobiotic cooking class. Have fun prepping your holiday cooking this Thanksgiving, and you’ll learn to enjoy this shortcut whenever you entertain!
I just came across this Cranberry Sauce Recipe you might enjoy this year! It’s always fun trying new tastes, and this one is sweet, and really stretches those organic cranberries! From Gail Jack’s wonderful book of American Macrobiotic Cooking, she credits it to her friend Alice, from Becket, Massachusetts! Thank you Alice and Gail!
I call it sweet smilin’ cranberry sauce! And you would too if you saw my sweet husband’s smile when he tasted it for me tonight!
SWEET SMILIN’ CRANBERRY SAUCE
from Gail Jack, Amberwaves of Grain
1 cup organic cranberries
2 cups apples, chopped
1 cup apple juice, Whole Foods, not Gravenstein!
pinch Si Salt sea salt*
Rice syrup to taste
1 1/2 teaspoon kuzu
• Place cranberries, apples, apple juice and sea salt in a saucepan.
• Cover, bringing to boil & simmer til cranberries soften, approx 15 minutes.
• Add a little rice syrup, if too tart.
• Dissolve kuzu in little cold water & add to sauce; cook & stir til thickened & clear.
*Si Salt Sea Salt – preferred in Macrobiotic Diet recipes, fine, still contains 67 trace
minerals, available at the Kushi Institute Store 800 . 645 . 8744!
Hope you and yours enjoy this free Macrobiotic Diet Recipe,
Wishing you a very, healthy, Happy Thanksgiving!
where can i find Daikon should i get it from the supermarket or the farmers market? Also do u know of any macrobiotic classes that are taught in New Jersey?
Hi Alexis,
Daikon directly from the farmer’s market is a gem! Also, usually Whole Foods has organic daikon with tops, and you can ask your produce
manager there to please keep the tops on for you! Often they are removed to fit the daikon into the small section allowed, and alas, some
of the most nutritious part is tossed. Warren Kramer teaches awesome cooking classes in New Jersey. Please check out his website for the
New Jersey/New York calendar or email warrenkramer@verizon.net. or phone is 617 . 803 . 6597.
Wishing you all the very best in your macrobiotic journey towards health! And if you are in Atlanta, please let us know! marsha and fred rueff
My husband has had blood clots recently for which coumadin was prescribed he also had an A Fib 13 years ago and then again after the second time he went in for blood clots and was re prescribed the coumadin. The first time the blood clots occured was about 2 years before and he was on coumadin and then he was taken off after about 6 months. There are no aparent reasons for either other then maybe genetics. Would he be better off on a macrobiotic diet? If so, how does one go about doing this right. I am so afraid to do the wrong thing.
Hi Ali,
i’m so sorry to be this late getting back to you. Macrobiotics would be so helpful to your husband, and I would love to talk to you personally about beginning a Macrobiotic Diet, and getting the proper consultation and guidance for your husband. It’s very exciting to have the results with Macrobiotic Diet and lifestyle changes, just all wonderful common sense type suggestions you will enjoy, and find sustaining. Please call me at 770 . 396 . 9413. A wonderful book for you is The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, and I would love to guide you to first steps.
Warren Kramer is coming to Atlanta November 4-9 if you wish to be here during any of that time for consultations and lectures. Please note his schedule on my website! Wishing you all the best.
Marsha
Hi Julie,
so sorry I didn’t get back to you before Warren’s weekend. Somehow this didn’t appear til today – I’ll have to improve something! Warren is returning March 3-9, and if it’s okay i’ve added you to my email list, so you will get the information in
plenty of time. You can email me to marsharueff@mac.com as well. I’m teaching a macro Thanksgiving Holiday Dinner class
November 22, 1-4 pm. It will be amazing tastes with healthy ingredients! please consider coming! You can also call me at 770-396-9413!
Wishing you all the best,
marsha
Years ago I followed a macrobiotic diet. Back then you could walk into any health food store and buy Amasake. It seems impossible to find these days. Do you know why, or where I can find some?
Thanks
Yes Joanna, we order from http://www.Rhapsodynaturalfoods.org. from Montpelier, Vermont. They are a small restaurant and you’ll be delighted knowing they ship on Mondays, just place your order by Friday, and you can email.Or call 802-229-6112. We also order their Tempeh, which still has Vitamin B-12 in it because of the manner processing within a small environment. We order the larger 2 pound size which costs 40 % less than the small size, and it is delish-ious! We resisted ordering for the longest time, and finally our macrobiotic counselor Warren Kramer kept after us, til we tried it, and after that we were hooked. Even bought a second refrigerator/freezer so we could bring in all we need for the year by the end of March, and take advantage of the colder weather shipping to Atlanta! They recently told us their local business is not substantial enough to keep their amasake orders going, but their national orders are, so we are delighted to help support their great efforts for quality by ordering their two products! Enjoy, and thank you so much for writing!
I am looking at that recipe, it looks delicious…..
Oh, it is! Use the Mayer lemons – that’s the trick, and you might find them at Whole Foods in your area! Otherwise, use
less lemon, and sweet to taste, or it might be a bit sour. Course that is the taste for this time of year, nurturing our livers,
lovin’ that sour taste!
If you are ever in Atlanta, come on over and take our macrobiotic cooking classes! we are almost neighbors! good luck in this
wonderful journey towards health!
Let me start by saying excellent site. Im not sure if it has been addressed, however when using Firefox I can never get the whole site to load without refreshing alot of times. Could just be my computer. Thanks
Thanks so much for taking time to reply to our site. I am using a mac computer, so Safari is the button i enter website world, and
godaddy is my website host. If that helps, surely hope it is all compatible with Firefox. My nephew loves Firefox, but he’s in Uganda
helping bring solar lightbulbs there, and i’ll see if he can give me some answers about this, or the Apple store. Will try to make this
easier for you!
Are you related the the Nygaard family in Atlanta? We would love for you to contact us for our cooking classes here, and hope to
help in any way we can in your journey towards health!
Highly impressed, discovered your post on Ask.Happy I finally tested it out. Not sure if its my Opera browser,but sometimes when I visit your site, the fonts are really small? Anyway, love your blog and will check back.See Ya
Thank you so much! Hope to hear from you often. Where are you? If you are ever in Atlanta, please let me know.
Please take one our our cooking classes! Will check out the font thing. I think i’m in 12 or 14, comic sans.
Wishing you all the best in all your interests, and especially this journey towards health!
Intriguing blog. My family and I were just discussing this the other night. Also your site looks nice on my old blackberry. And thats rare. Keep it up.
Thanks so much!!! Please keep your interest in Macrobiotics. There are so many benefits. If you are ever in Atlanta,
come take some cooking classes, and try out our food! Where are you???
Wishing you all the best, and great journey towards health!
It is good that you took your time to write this post; it’s encouraging to see another’s opinion. I appreciate your work on this site, and I’ll come back for more info.
Thank you so much for your sweet comment! We are very strong on Kids with macrobiotics, and have seen such great achievements
and happiest kids eating this way! Wish we can reach more families of youngun’s! If you are in Atlanta, let us know, would love to
have you join our cooking classes, and experience our wonderful macro cuisine!
Wishing you all the very best!
marsha