Atlanta Macrobiotics

It’s so easy following a macrobiotic diet near Holiday time, because we can shop our holiday meal list early before the crowds hit the markets! That’s right! Hardly any of our food is really perishable, so collect most of what you will use even a week out or more, and that week just pick up your fresh organic veggies, firm tofu, and you are back home, relaxing on your lounge chair with your favorite book!

Here is the list for our Thanksgiving Class Menu, featuring:
Tofurkey with Herbed Stuffing and Southern Pecan Mushroom Gravy
Easy Squash Pie
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie
Warm Cider

We’ll start with the Tofurkey
Equipment:
Colander depending on the size of your dinner party, medium to large
11 x 5 – serve 20-25 6-7 pkg of 14 oz. tofu, extra firm
8 x 4 – serve 8-10 5 pkg of 14 oz. tofu, extra firm
7 x 4 – serve 4-6 3 pkg of 14 oz. tofu, extra firm
Please have extra tofu handy just in case you need it to fill the colander.

Cheesecloth
Baking Sheet
Pastry Brush
Baking Paper – we prefer this to aluminum paper
Heavy Object (1 gallon apple juice jar works like a charm)
2 Metal Spatulas
Knife, wooden spoons

Tofurkey Ingredients:
Extra Firm Tofu, Nasoya, Whole Foods, Wildwood are brands we use
Shoyu: Sakurazawa or Johsen Mitoku, Natural Import Catalogue is special!
Toasted Sesame Oil: Mitoku Hiraide, Natural Import Catalogue, very gourmet!

Herbed Stuffing Ingredients:
organic olive oil
1 organic yellow or white onion
celery – as white as you can find in color is sweetest!
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup raisins
14 teaspoon Si Salt sea salt – Kushi Institute Store
1/3 cup pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup shoyu
4 1/2 cup sourdough bread cubes, Whole Foods Bakery – non-yeast bread
3 Tablespoon fresh sage, or 1 Tablespoon dried
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 Tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
1/2 teaspoon black pepper, optional

Southern Pecan Mushroom Gravy Ingredients – Serves large group!
1 large onion
2 cups mushrooms
5 Tablespoon Kuzu, – Natural Import Co.
3 Tablespoon Shoyu – Sakurazawa or Johsen Mitoku Natural Import Co.
2 Tablespoon Sesame Oil – Hiraide, Natural Import Co.
3/4 Cup organic pecan
chopped parsley

Cranberry Sauce
2-3 boxes organic cranberries
Suzanne’s brown rice syrup to taste
2 – oranges for juice and zest
lemon zest

Easy Squash Pie
kabocha squash 1 per 8 people
potato masher, wood or metal
Si Salt sea salt

Pumpkin Pie
Crust
3/4 cup organic whole wheat pastry flour, Arrowhead Mills
3/4 cup organic unbleached flour, Arrowhead Mills
1/4 cup corn oil or organic safflower oil
pinch Si Salt sea salt, Kushi Institute Store
1/2 cup ice water

Filling
2 cups winter squash, kabocha or buttercup
1/3 cup Suzanne’s barley malt, Natural Import Co.
2 Tablespoon corn oil
1/2 cup organic pecans
Pinch Si Salt sea salt
2/3 cup Suzanne’s brown rice syrup
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 cup vanilla amasake, Rhapsody Foods, Montpelier, Vermont! Delish!
4 Tablespoon kanten flakes
3 Tablespoon kuzu

Warm Apple Cider
In Atlanta we enjoy Whole Foods 365 Apple Juice, not Gravenstein
In Northern California, try Nana Mae’s Apple Juice! Worth the trip to Calistoga!
Enjoy with or without cinammon sticks! A warm welcoming aroma for your guests!

You still have time to order ingredients from these wonderful macrobiotic food resources:
Natural Import Company www.info@naturalimport.com 800 . 533 . 3919
Kushi Institute Store www.kushistore.com 800 . 645 . 8744
Rhapsody Healthy Foods www.rhapsodynaturalfoods.org 802 . 229 . 6112

So, get out your fun Thanksgiving decor, shop early, relax and enjoy your guests! Enjoy knowing the freshness your guests will savor, from these beautifully prepared dishes. So different from preparing dishes in advance, freezing them and pulling them out to defrost Thanksgiving morning! Not us!
Everything is freshly prepared, organic with the finest ingredients, soon to become your favorite holiday memory foods! Our whole family can hardly wait to savor these now familiar dishes! And the turkey will love you too!