Macrobiotic Cooking Class, Atlanta: Breakfast of Champions & Company too

Breakfast of Champions! Gets You Up and Keeps You Going!

So, why attend a class about breakfast! What’s so special about this one meal to warrant a Macrobiotic Cooking Class called Breakfast of Champions. Numerous reasons! One of the first questions asked about Macrobiotic Diet is: what do you eat for breakfast?? do you really have miso soup in the morning? What’s wrong with dry cereal and skim milk for breakfast?

Want the skinny on breakfast? Ever notice Dunkin’ Donuts logo: we get you up and keep you going! Sure do! All that sugar and caffeine, and guess what happens to our blood stream at 11:00 AM & 3:00 PM? Hypoglycemic dip ~ we are falling on our face, and needing what??? Another coffee break: latte, donuts, breakfast bars to get us going ‘til lunch.

And now, folks, here’s the Macro take on breakfast: providing sustainability. How would soaring energy til 12:30 or 1:00 fit your bill! Perform all morning, and be the wiz at work, home, home-schooling, driving without dozing, exercise/yoga/walk strongly. In other words, enjoy peak performance throughout your day.

Easily achieved with a macro breakfast: composed of a grain and a vegetable. Our rice and other whole grain, warm nourishing dish would keep the 3 bears and Goldilocks happy forever! And you too. Delish and sweet without sugar, it’s so easily digested we can concentrate on tasks at-hand, rather than sluggishly, barely being able to navigate through the morning. Looking for the donut cart to peel around the corner. Vegetables for breakfast??? you ask. I know it seemed so different to me too, but just think about it. Veggies get the digestive tract moving, so what better time than first thing in the morning? And speaking about time, wanta know the best time for eating breakfast? Best before 8 AM. Between 5-7 AM, and we’ll explain more about this in the class. Really Creamy Porridge that’s Not Oatmeal – oatmeal is sooooo mucous forming we just save it for when we’re traveling and can’t get our other grains!

Here’s more about the selections & health benefits you will learn in this Macrobiotic Cooking Class: Breakfast of Champions

Join us!!   February 26, 2011           1:00 – 4:00 PM                  $45 per person

RSVP marsharueff@mac.com

770 . 396 . 9413                          cell: 678 . 643 . 5662

Your check holds your spot: please mail to 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

Yummy Macro Creamy Porridge
Inspired by all the wonderful breakfasts we create day-to-day
Benefits: Containing a nearly perfect balance of nutrients & energy, brown rice restores brain cells,
intestines, spine digestion, & nerve endings. Healing Foods, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

 

Sauteed Greens & ‘Shrooms
Inspired by Wendy Esko, Eat Your Veggies
Benefits:  Turnip greens are loaded with calcium, iron, dietary fiber and vitamins A & C. They help strengthen blood,
tonify the liver & gallbladder and prevent bone loss. Daikon tops, are especially helpful as well as broccoli, collards,
kale – all especially high in vitamins A, C & calcium.  Mushrooms help remove harmful effects of old chicken.
Healing Foods, Michio Kushi & Alex Jack

Creamy Corn Grits
Taught by Fatim and Warren Kramer. Benefits: Corn benefits the heart, and is a lighter cracked grain.
Healing Foods, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack; lectures of Warren Kramer

Fried Polenta Squares
Benefits: Made from dried corn, grits is a source for niacine & lysine.
A light breakfast to get you up & out the door! Easy ‘n quick because you are already cooked those grits!
They’re just waitin’ for you!

Bancha Tea
Benefits: Soothing, beneficial effects on digestion, blood quality and the mind, without caffeine.
Healing Foods, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

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Now, what about when company comes for that special brunch, or out-of-town visitors for breakfast? Oh, we’ll be showing you great Macrobiotic Cooking Class answers for a fancy-schmancy company brunch/breakfast! And these dishes serve a great purpose too! Memory food, relaxing, and yet without sugar, eggs, dairy, and can even be gluten-free.

Blueberry Pancakes & Blueberry Sauce
Inspired by Cooking the Whole Foods Way, Christina Pirello
Benefits: Relaxes, lovely memory-food from childhood celebrations and gatherings
The Sauce actually has kanten flakes ~ a sea veggie ~ adding minerals to our sweeteners.
Great for a lazy weekend morning!

Blueberry Sauce
My parents discovered this in New Orleans ~ I was 8
Benefits: Just about the yummiest pancake topping on the planet! Blueberries are antioxidents, too

Mochi Pecan Waffles & You Won’t Believe It’s Not Maple Syrup
thanks to Yoko and Charlie Kendall for this wonderful Mochi, and great idea for Waffles!
Benefits: You can have a Belgian Waffle without eggs, flour, sugar & butter! Qwik, qwik, & no clean-up!

Tofu French Toast & A little Pan-Fried Dulse Bacon
from The Kind Diet, Alicia Silverstone & Cooking with Rachel, Rachel Alpert
Benefits: You get to wow your family with a much healthier version of everyone’s favorite breakfast dish!
Benefits: Dulse has minerals only found in sea veggies, and has the distinction of maybe reminding you of
the taste of bacon, without the harmful effects.

Macro Cappuccino
Inspired by Warren Kramer’s class
Benefits: Relaxes, satisfying drink, can also serve as a dessert

 

Nabe Cooking Class is Macrobiotic Vegan & Gluten-Free! Atlanta, January 22, 2011

That’s perfectly right! This awesome Nabe Cooking is just as Gluten-Free as you wanna make it! So, if you’ve been enchanted by the idea of vegan or macrobiotic cooking directly at your table, for 2 or company, and gluten-free is a criteria for you – look no more! Call it Nabe, Hooto, Shabu-Shabu, we’ll cover it all, and this class features completely vegan, macrobiotic and gluten-free organic ingredients!

How’s that possible you ask??? Simple. We’ll be cooking Tinkyada or Quinoa pasta, and if you prefer no flour choice at all, why, we’ll have freshly hulled brown rice just for you! Next, hmmm, seasoning. Okay, here’s the scoop: in Nabe dining, guess what! You season your own bowl! So, we’ll have 3 different levels of Macrobiotic Mitoku Shoyu for you, or the barley free San-J, and if that’s still not within your guidelines, well, there is Si Salt, Sea Salt, gomashio & shichimi. So, your meal will have a very delicious flavor.

And vegetables galore! They are truly the kingpin of this meal, plus a few garnishes, all within realm of  gluten-free! Goodness, you wouldn’t want me to give away all the loveliness of this divine meal!

So, here’s what one of my clients told me about her Nabe experience: I made Nabe for my parents, and suddenly the room became so quiet, and we were all so relaxed as we were enjoying the meal! Yep, that’s the purpose and result of Nabe Cooking: it relaxes us deep within, creating a lovely warmth inside & out. And isn’t this exactly what each of us can use in our busy, busy lives. Relaxing, feeling warmth in this snowy, cold season. Anyone remember Simon & Garfinkle singing, slow down, you’re moving too fast!

Hope to see you! Early registration is greatly appreciated.

New Date: Saturday, January 22                     1 PM – 4 PM                           $45 per person

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

With limited seating, your check reserves your space:
Please send to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, GA 30338

Atlanta Macrobiotic & Vegan Cooking Classes, January 18 & 22

Welcome to Macrobiotics — a Macro Cooking Class

Our beginner’s cooking class welcomes Newcomers to Macro
Covering delicious easy recipes, and important basic info!

You’ll learn what Macrobiotics is really all about,
So you can cook with success and reap many benefits – without a doubt!

We’re excited to offer our Tuesday series just for you
To spice up your health and well-being through Macro food!

New Date: Tuesday, January 18                  10 AM – 1 PM                  $45 per person

Menu

The MacDaddy Miso Soup
Pressure-Cooking Brown Rice Really Isn’t Scary!
Azuki Beans-Kombu-Squash, the Magic Potion of Macrobiotics
Qwik-Qwik Blanched Greens with Pumpkin Seed Dressing
Homemade Gomashio
Poached Apple Surprises
The Secret to Bancha Tea

plus handouts what to buy & where to order it!

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Nabe, the Perfect Winter Dish, Macro-Fondu, Easy and Quick!

Nabe Cooking?? What could this be?
Just come to class — and then you will see!

Why in Macro-land this is the dish we all do,
And almost no clean-up, once you are through!

A one-dish meal: noodles, veg & protein all served in one bowl,
Cooked at the table, easy for two or a party, just so you know.

This might remind you of Swiss Fondu — no need to beware,
Minus cheese and heavy oil, we enjoy this meal without a waistline care!

Winter’s the reason Nabe is my first cooking class.
‘Tis Relax-our-Kidneys-season, and Warren asked me to teach every lad and lass!

This clay Nabe pot’s perfect for Winter, a great way to go
Guaranteed to turn you into a Nabe fan after Saturday’s Nabe Demo!

Saturday, January 18                     1 PM – 4 PM                           $45 per person

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:
Please send to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, GA 30338

Macrobiotic Diet Free Recipe for Genuine Brown Rice Cream

Servings: 4-8 This leftover may be kept in refrigerator for 2 days.

Based on Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

Whenever we feel a bit under the weather, this turns us around to health again.

Benefits: Perfect food, so easily digested, it simulates intravenous feeding for instant improvement to our blood, giving smooth energy and assists healing the body. Perfect for a liquid diet.

  • 1 cup short grain brown rice, rinsed and soaked overnight. Handmill.
  • 5-10 cups water depending on the person’s condition
  • 1/2 –1 umeboshi plum or pinch sea salt
  1. Place rice, water  and umeboshi plum or pinch si salt in pressure cooker; cover and bring to pressure.
  2. Reduce flame to medium-low, simmering 1 hour on a flame diffuser.
  3. Remove from flame, open and stir thoroughly for an even consistency.
  4. Puree the brown rice through a handmill. You will eat the soft cream, omitting the grain pulp.