Atlanta Macrobiotics

Hi Everyone!

Join our Group Macro Cooking Class: Sandwiches & Wrap-it-Ups!! A Hand’s-on Class!

Saturday, August 28            1-4 pm                           $45 per person

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com Limited seating!

Please confirm by email, and mail your check to reserve your spot:

Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

Wrap Around the Clock today,

we’re goin’ to rap, rap rap, aroun’ the clock today!!

A fun twist in Macroland, make a sandwich, wrap it up!

Hungry? need a snack, a travel meal, school lunches for the kids and yourself,

hiking picnik, or just a night off from the kitchen? This class fits you perfectly!

And, just what our macro counselor, Warren Kramer, suggested to many clients.

A perfect class for macro newcomers & long-time cooking macro!

Easily adaptable for gluten-free concerns!

And share with your family and friends too! Fun, yummy & light!

Experience & make the type dishes you’ve read about in Alisha Silverstone’s, Kind Diet!

Be the chef! Experience making today’s menu 1st-hand! A Hand’s-0n class for YOU!

Menu

The Magic 7

Mochi • Tofu • Nori Wrap

Tofu Vegetable Wrap

Totally Awesome Veggie Burger

Aveline’s Famous Hummus, A Rapper’s Delight!

Tempting Tempeh Reuben Sandwich

Rice Balls

Nori Rolls

We will show you what to do, have the fixin’s, then it’s all in your hands!!

Recipes will include lots of ideas & variations for each item we make in class.

Wishing you a great August – keepin’ kool,

Marsha and Fred Rueff

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

Join our next Group Cooking Class: Cooking to Restore Natural Beauty ‘n Health

Saturday, July 17               1-4 pm

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com 770 . 396 . 9413         Limited seating!

Beauty is only skin deep – what’s deep inside us is who we really are, right?

Ok, but in macrobiotic view and oriental medicine, our facial features, coloring, condition of our skin, hair and nails actually gauge our health deep within, and the health of each of our organs.

So, this macrobiotic cooking class examines lifestyle and recipes to actually  attain renewed levels of health. And bring you both compliments & personal delight at how improved you look and feel! A very special class!

The Magic Menu!

Hato-Mugi Salad & Light Dressing

Kool Cucumber Soup

Summer’s Pressed Salade & Yummy Citrus Dress-it-up!

My Favorite Daikon Nishimi with Sweet Miso Dressing

Arame Salad

This Can’t Really Be a Dessert?! Dessert

We will also discuss and include recipes for home remedies to improve our health.

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July welcomes Warren Kramer back to Atlanta! Yep, July 28-August 1

Join our great week, starting Wednesday evening, July 28 at Cafe Sunflower with

our Dinner at 6 PM, and lecture to follow at 7:30 ~ location at the Rueff home.

Five days packed with lectures, cooking classes, private consultations offering you a chance to really streamline the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle to your personal condition at this time. Check Warren’s information at www.atlantamacrobiotics.com, and follow the prompts to the flyer of the week’s events and discounts! Definitely worth the trip to Atlanta! Remember, Warren’s the macrobiotic counselor Alicia Silverstone is suggesting we see whenever he’s available in your city.

A few consultation times are open, morning, afternoon, and evening after the lectures, so call or email me to get your time preference!

Please share with your friends & family!

Summertime, and Let’s Make Cookin’ Eazy. How’s that for a very Macrobiotic Cooking Class! And what makes these dishes great for summer you might be wondering! Rightfully so. It’s warm outside, and in too, and who wants to spend sunny delightful days inside cooking up a storm! Doesn’t fit, and you’re absolutely right-on! You’ll see some of these same types of recipes in Alisha Silverstone’s new book, The Kind Diet, and on her website too. Everyone is wanting to keep it so cool in the summer! You can too

So, this class features our favorite dishes, using less stove and prep time, yet giving the energy, relax, cool effect we all need for Summer’s heat. Each of these macrobiotic dishes suits the very organs we wish to nourish this time of year, yes you guessed right! Heart and small intestine. And these need and deserve our attention all the way into the late beautiful Indian summers so many of us enjoy at home and while traveling.

Here’s the macrobiotic cooking class menu, with a little more detail for your keen understanding! What’s the favorite dish served all summer long, and causing havoc for people over-indulging when fall-time arrives? You guessed it, Ice Cream. So that’s why we start this menu with a light Creamy Corn Fluff Soup, to please everyone’s palate, and enjoy that creamy texture. And if you get yourself the awesome Breville blender your soup will be as fluffy as ours!

For our grain dish we’ve chosen a Colorful Couscous Salad with a medley of veggies to further lighten the dish, creating a delightful sweet taste with roots & round vegetables, as well as lighter seasoning such as parsley & basil, picked from your own garden. We enjoy our pots growing treasures on our deck, and these sparkling our grain and veggie dishes all summer long! That bitter taste of parsley also nourishes our hearts! Enhance your dishes with parsley all summer!

For our protein choice, we combined real macro delicacy and old favorite taste, tho you won’t find any chicken here. But I think you could easily disguise it to some friends and family who haven’t tasted tofu yet, and get away with it in this Tofu Old-Fashioned No-Chick’n-in this Salad. A winning taste you’ll repeat all summer long! And tofu’s ease in digestibility , great for circulation, respiration & nervous functioning as well as excellent source for protein, calcium, iron and vitamins A & B according to Alex Jack and Michio Kushi in Healing Foods. Creates  summer cooling! Look at this: tofu is even used as plasters throughout the East to bring down inflammation, swelling and bruises – even more effective than ice. So this dish is a must-have!

I’ve chosen the Arame – Orange – Watercress Salad for numerous reasons! As we perspire more in summer’s heat, we want to replace our minerals – voila, Arame with it’s iron & calcium & being so great for our bones & teeth, … benefitting our circulatory system.* It works on removing old dairy – help out the ice cream again. The orange cooling factor, sweet taste and lovely color fit perfectly, and the watercress according to Healing Foods is high in calcium, vitamins A & C, and other nutrients. It’s fiber aids digestion…is especially strengthening to the liver and gallbladder. Ever chew watercress? It’s just about the macdaddy of fiber. Remember we’re nurturing our heart and small intestine all summer long, right? So, strengthening the organs we pay greatest attention to in Spring — our liver/gallbladder pair — even into the Summer, benefits the next pay-attention-to-me, now-it’s-summer-heart-&-small-intestine-time still even more.

And, what’s summer without watermelon! Here’s a delightful surprise for a watermelon treat that goes a bit beyond just slicing it up, and passing it around! I mean, everyone in your world will know you’ve done something very special here! And what better way to cool off than this lovely refreshing Summertime favorite.

So we certainly hope to see you at one of our summertime macrobiotic cooking classes.

This is the first class for our series in 2010 we are offering at 2 different time slots, May 18 and May 22. Trying to honor your schedules, and requests for some guests who could not attend Saturday macrobiotic cooking classes!

Please RSVP as soon as you know, and mention which class you wish to attend!

At the home of Marsha and Fred Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com 770 . 396 . 9413

Limited seating: your check holds your place. Please write check to Marsha Rueff.

May 18          11 am – 2 pm       $45 per person

May 22          1 pm – 4 pm       $45 per person

Menu

Creamy Corn Fluff Soup

Colorful Couscous Salad

Tofu, there’s just No-chick’n in this Old-Fashioned Salad

Arame-Orange-Watercress Salad

Watermelon Surprise

*Healing Foods, Alex Jack & Michio Kushi

Scrumptious Desserts! We’re talkin’ macrobiotic, vegan without sugars, eggs, cream or other dairy products. Some ingredients are even used in macrobiotic home remedies. Meaning, they actually promote health, like soothing kuzu, aides digestion, and kanten flakes, a sea veggie full of minerals. Isn’t this amazing! And for sweeteners we use Suzanne’s Brown Rice Syrup or Barley Malt which are actually made from grains. Being complex sugars, not simple sugars, they go through all steps of our digestion process and don’t cause havoc with our blood sugar. These sweeteners appear in some macro home remedy drinks, such as Ame Kuzu and Warm Barley Kanten. You can be rest-assured these are not artificial sweeteners causing ill side-effects – no saccharin, splenda, or tropical stevia located here. We enjoy these sweets a few times a week, and find ourselves satisfied. Free from candy bars & cakes we use to crave.

What’s the ideal Macrobiotic Dessert? Gentle desserts, just cooked stove-top, rather than baked in the oven. Here’s the reason: when we’re changing our health, we avoid hard, baked ingredients with flour products so cookies, pies, cakes are not recommended daily fare. Instead we enjoy fruit cooked stove-top with a lovely kuzu glaze, or fruit kantens creating a luscious pudding consistency. Or select a parfait with fresh fruit, using kuzu rather than dairy for the creamy sauce. With locally-grown organic melons and berries soon available & ready to cool us down this summer, May’s perfect timing for a sweet macrobiotic cooking class featuring desserts!

S’pose you’re wondering: if I wish to be really healthy, why would I want to eat desserts anyway? A very insightful question! Here’s the reason. Just like deer are attracted to a salt lick, humans desire a sweeter flavor for eighty percent of food. That may seem like a lot, but just look at all the sweet vegetables we enjoy, as well as fruit, and there you have it. Even sauces served around the globe often have a sweet taste. And sometimes we just want a little something to end the meal, clear the palate, as Margaret mentioned when we prepped our Leftover Macrobiotic Cooking Class yesterday. And these milder treats keep us out of  t-r-o-u-b-l-e, like all traditional brimful of sugary, creamy, buttery sweets everywhere we go.

Another reason for learning good quality Macrobiotic Desserts is serving company and even friends stopping by. You feel confident something in your fridge is yummy-as-the-Ritz or NYC’s Serendipity – even serving friends who aren’t eating macro. You’ll enjoy your dessert, and their compliments. Recently we delighted Abe, the insulation expert inspecting our home, with our Apple Crisp, & we joined him too, natch! Learn some delicious, healthier desserts in this macrobiotic cooking class, and you won’t have to be singing this old song:

If I knew you were comin’ I’d've baked a cake, hired a band, goodness sake!
If I knew you were comin’ I’d've baked a cake
Howdya do, howdya do, howdya do?

This macrobiotic cooking class features desserts you can use frequently plus just one over-the-top for very special occasions, well, maybe two over-the-top! Sometimes we just need something a little more special, or when we entertaining. I mean wouldn’t you just love to serve a mini chocolate truffle? What if it had kanten flakes in it instead of eggs & a little Eden Blend Rice/Soy Beverage instead of butter & cream?

And that little chocolate chip cookie I made this December? Chips sweetened with barley malt, without dairy! So delish I gave them to lots of people in our world. One sweet note on top of a letter ~ Sure enjoyed those chocolate chip cookies! Thanks, Mailman Mike tells it all. Bet you’ll like them too! So like Rosemary Clooney sings, Come on-a my house, I’m gonna give you candy …!

Come on-a my house, my house,  I’m gonna teach you cookies and truffles and tarts,
Come on-a my house I’m gonna teach to you … some sweet, yummy, healthier macro things..

Join us in Atlanta!  Macrobiotic Center of Atlanta

Saturday May 15              1-4 pm        $45 per person

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com 770. 396  9413

Menu*

Fruit & Berries Tart, A Macro Perfection
Possibly the Yummiest Rice Pudding on the planet
Blueberry Pie
Chocolate Truffles
A very teeny, harmless Chocolate Chip Cookie
~ Peach Compote with Kuzu ~
perfect recipe for blueberries, apple, pears & more!

* menu choices may change slightly as new desserts are being tested! check for updates!

RSVP please,  soon as possible!

Your check to Marsha Rueff holds your space:
Please mail to 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, GA 30338

Atlanta-Macrobiotics Cooking Class Series with Marsha Rueff          2010

As we enjoying this late Indian summer, now’s the perfect time to recreate delicious opportunities for yourself as we approach Fall’s cooler days. Designed to enhance your well-being, with scrumptious, health-enhancing vegan recipes ‘n savory suggestions – these Macrobiotic Cooking Classes will guide your health to an all-time highest level. Just like you’ve been reading in Alisha Silverstone’s The Kind Diet!

Our wish: you attaining optimal health & energy accomplishing your 2010 dreams as we near this year’s end, anticipating a great 2011!

Call to  join these  engaging cooking ‘n lifestyle  changing classes! All based on preparing foods according to Macrobiotic principals, including no dairy, eggs, meat or poultry and sugar. Feel better already?? The savory dishes feature organic produce and the highest quality Mitoku Macrobiotic ingredients. Perfect recipes for football parties & other fun pot-luck dinners, and an amazing Vegan Thanksgiving! Your dishes will be the talk-of-the-town! And the Thanksgiving Class in late October gives you plenty of time to practice at home in your own kitchen, as well as shop for your ingredients and utensils! Easy as pie! So start compiling your guest list, because you’ll be excited to share these menus with everyone in your world!

All classes: 1-4 PM                                 Cost per class          $45

Saturday, Sept. 25                          Mama Mia! Let’s Eat Italian ~ Ciao Bella!

Saturday, October 9                      Mexican Fiesta, Ole!

Saturday, October 30                   Holiday Cooking, A Macrobiotic & Vegan Thanksgiving Feast!

Hope to see you! Early registration is greatly appreciated.

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com phone: 770.396.9413    cell:678.643.5662

With limited seating, your check reserves your space.

Send to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, GA 30338

**Private Macrobiotic Cooking Classes available, designed just for YOU!

**Providing Macrobiotic Meals to Go!