Cooking Classes, where all your study comes to fruition!

It’s always so interesting and funner cooking with Warren sez Margaret! These are wonderful cooking opportunities;  you’ll want to participate too!

Hmmm, those portobello mushrooms sure look delish!

Macrobiotic Meals in Atlanta is very easy! Freshly cooked meals prepared daily, ready for you, using the highest quality macrobiotic and organic ingredients, centrally located in Dunwoody, Georgia, near GA 400. Usually ready by 10:30 AM, each meal contains a home-made soup, grain dish and several vegetable dishes, including many amazing macrobiotic specialty dishes, all designed to increase your health and energy level! Join our client list who say now these are their favorite foods!

 So get ready to feel and look your best eating well. Increase your energy, shed those extra pounds, start your journey in the direction of health. The great attribute about the Macrobiotic Diet is its being based on yin and yang, and energetics – a diet about how it makes you feel when you eat this food. What is your energy like?

Call 770 . 396 . 9413, order some meals, and see how wonderfully you can begin to feel again!

 Visiting Atlanta from out of town? We often have clients traveling from other cities, and even from abroad, who wish to stay with their macrobiotic diet. We are ready to accommodate you in every way, and greatly look forward to your requests.

Visit Marsha Rueff at www.atlantamacrobiotics.com to learn more about these delicious macrobiotic diet meals ready for you!

You’re itinerary‘s perfection, car, hotel, entertainment, sight-seeing, including plenty of local color. But are you macro-ready? Am I what? Yep, are you prepared to eat well and within macrobiotic diet recommendations while away from your macrobiotic kitchen?

There are a few parts to this puzzle. It’s do-able, easy, and well worth it. Why? Because you’ll feel 100% better on your travels, and keep your direction of health at the same time. Avoid jet lag, sleep well, and be up to all the sightseeing and visiting you’ve planned. We actually give a complete macrobiotic cooking class on this subject. Here are a few pointers.

Take your most important macrobiotic items with you! Always be prepared. You never know what items will be difficult to find when you are away.

This was before the present restrictions on flying. We use to take more with us, in the original bottles and jars. We once packed a suitcase with 84 pounds of just our food when visiting Fred’s brother in Monaco. No more. Car trips afford luxurious space so we pack the minimum size of all our macrobiotic essentials: shoyu, ume plum, miso, kuzu, si salt, etc. But on the plane we strictly travel with carry-on luggage. We may take a small eye dropper bottle of shoyu to insure we have the best quality, and teeny jars of miso and ume plum as well. The Container Store sells these for minimal charge.

Google and email ahead to your destination to find local health stores, and contact them for products are availability. If staying in a facility permitting cooking – a suite hotel perhaps, or condo, you’re in like flint. Purchase your organic or bio veggies, prepare breakfast, and maybe rice balls to add to your lunch. Then a divine dinner at a special restaurant – you’re on vacation!

Use this easy way to cook in a thermos. Even on an airplane, you can carry an empty open wide-mouth thermos. Measure your grain in 1 cup portions: brown rice, quinoa, bulghur and yes, go ahead add the pinch of si salt. Put this measurement into a small wax paper bag, fold, and slide these into a plastic baggie. Brown rice -short, medium and long – should be rinsed, roasted til dry, and let cool before bagging. The other mentioned grains can be measured out without roasting.

So it’s now as easy as boiling water to make your grain. Just bring 1 1/2 cups water to boil, place the grain the thermos, pour in the water, and tomorrow morning you have delicious grain. We actually take 2 thermos with us: one for breakfast, and one for lunch.

Enjoy breakfast on your balcony, or join others in the bed and breakfast area, and you’re off and running for the day! No guilt about keeping a great macrobiotic regime! And the best benefit – you’re tiptop condition for the demands of travel!

Remember, what a meal is! Warren Kramer teaches a meal is a grain or grain product and a vegetable! Carrying kukicha tea bags with you is a great idea to end your meal. A bit us of wild caught fish is very nice, and often you can enjoy the local specialty as well, avoiding farm-raised fish.

What about ordering, when you don’t speak the language! Research the macrobiotic avoid words before you travel, and carry these with you on a typed, laminated wallet-size card. Duplicate this list to hand the person taking your order, and no worries about cheese, butter, milk being added to your cuisine! Relax and enjoy the ambiance. Bon voyage ! !

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Following the 1945 nuclear bombing in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, one of  the famous doctors Tatsuichiro Akizuki of St. Francis Hospital cared for his staff and patients using traditional foods, namely miso soup, short grain brown rice, sea vegetables, hokkaido squash, azuki beans, sea salt, shoyu. They avoided the foods seen today on a conventional diet, especially sugars and sweets. All survived, free from horrifying illness while others in the city perished from radiation sickness. And when the nuclear crisis hit Chernobyl, miso soup was used by the Russian doctors there under the auspices of experts from Japan, preventing leukemia and cancers.

Our dear friend and  Senior Macrobiotic Counselor and Teacher, William Spear’s excellent article in The Huffington Post, at this link http://tinyurl.com/4wblqew clearly depicts Japan’s crisis now. With possible outreaching effects throughout the world, Bill comprehensively explains  foods to boost your health during this radiation crisis facing Japan.

What can we in Atlanta do about this? If you have dear ones in Japan, who have forgotten their traditional foods, you might want to share this information with them. And if you ‘ve been reading Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet, whether you’re just opening the book, Flirting, Vegan or Super Hero, take a look at William Spear’s article! Right now is a perfect time to step into the Macrobiotic Diet and Lifestyle. A way to take responsibility for your own health so Bob Marley’s words, don’t worry ’bout a thing, every little thing’s going to be allright! can happen for you.

If you’re reading Alicia book, or Bill’s article, wondering how in the world to prepare the sea veggies, brown rice & other special macro foods they mention, just scroll down this website for our Atlanta Macrobiotic Cooking Classes.

Because we know you may be concerned for yourselves and your loved ones, we are streamlining our April Cooking Classes to include these special information. Thus our next April cooking class will highlight soups  to eat during this radiation crisis, including miso, sea vegetables & other vital macrobiotic dishes. Come study in group class settings or privately. As Bill says, learn to add kombu with beans and root veggies, nori with your rice, and wakame with your miso soup!

Atlanta Macrobiotics Presents

Tuesdays with Marsha

Tuesday, April 12                 10 AM – 1 PM                   $45 per person
Macro Soup du Jour: Always A Delish & Nutritious Treat!

Soups welcome your guests and family, too
Home to your heart-warming table with you!

Please join our Soup Class next Tuesday morning!
Learn Yummy Soups, simmering and blending.

Each recipe boasts it’s own special style,
Learn these, & you’re the new Julia Childs!

RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com                      770 . 396 . 9413
Please register early as class size is limited

Menu

Miso Soup

My Secret Creamy Carrot Soup

The MacDaddy Strengthener, Kinpira Soup

Over-the-Moon Split Pea Soup

Spring Sassy Lotus Soup

Aveline’s Amazing Brown Rice Soup

By Special Request: Sweet Vegetable Drink, the Remedy
soup-ed in disguise!

and to assuage concerns about fallout,  sea veggies are included here
Like Fred sez, why fear, when macro’s here!

Want more information?
Check this out: Bill Spear’s article in the Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/4wblqew

‘n if you’re still concerned . . .

email your inquiries to marsharueff@mac.com, give me a call 770 . 396 . 9413

For starters, here are two wonderful and basic recipes for preparing Miso Soup and Arame!

Miso Soup

Serves 4-5
Benefits: Because miso contains enzymes that facilitate digestion, strengthening blood quality with it’s Vitamin B and other minerals, miso helps remove toxins and radiation from our body, preventing cancer & heart disease.

Soak overnight:
4-5 cups water 1/2 cup daikon sliced in thin half moons
1/2 t wakame, in teeny pieces
1-2 dried shiitake mushroom, including soaking water

1 medium onion, sliced in half-moons
1 small daikon, cut in thin matchsticks
1 carrot, cut in matchsticks or diced
1/4 cup kabocha or butternut squash diced

4 teaspoon Sakarazawa Miso, pureed*
1 cup daikon greens, kale or napa sliced

Garnish: 2 Tablespoons scallion, finely chopped

Soak overnight for enhanced flavor, or place wakame, shiitake and soaking water in enamel cast iron pot.
Cover and bring to boil.
Reduce flame to medium-low, simmering 10 minutes.

Add onion, cover and simmer 1 minute; then add remaining vegetables for 5-7 minutes.
Dilute miso with soup broth, add this to soup and simmer 3 minutes without boiling.
At the same time of adding miso, add the greens of your choice, to lighten the soup.

*Usually 1 teaspoon miso per 1 cup of liquid

Serve in soup bowls, garnishing each finely choppd scallions, important to activate the miso! Miso soup may be enjoyed with benefit to most people 4-5 times a week. Variety is important with your miso, which, so vary your vegetables from the macrobiotic regular use of vegetables, including both land and  sea vegetables each day. Please use aged miso to get the most benefit from your miso soup. If wishing to remain gluten-free you may select Hatcho miso rather than the Barley Miso.

Arame, the Awesome Sea Vegetable

Serves 4-5

Benefits: Arame presents a significant protection from the absorption of radioactive particles that may be released because of the naturally occurring iodine. It is excellent source high of plant-quality calcium, iron for bones & teeth. Benefits circulation system, & flexibility! Helps remove the effects on our body of dairy foods we’ve eaten in the past. Onion: cooked onions give a calm, peaceful energy, especially soothing nervous conditions, muscle aches and pains. When cooked with squash & carrots, are the perfect sweet dish for diabetic conditions. Carrot: this root veggie’s high betacarotene & mild downward energy are especially good for lungs, large intestine, as well as liver, kidneys and heart. Lotus root helps dissolve mucus and fat in the lungs, bronchi, throat, and sinuses, especially from dairy or eggs. Corn provides light, expansive energy and is especially strengthening for the heart and small intestine. Healing Foods, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

1 cup arame, rinse, soak 10 min. Lotus root, sliced thin
1 cup onion, thinly sliced 1/2 cup dried daikon, soaked 10 minutes
1 cup carrot,match-sticks Hiraide Sesame oil
Spring water 1/2 cup fresh  or frozen corn kernels
Tahini if allowed Shoyu to taste
2 Tablespoons Tan Sesame Seeds

Rinse arame, drain and soak 10 minutes.
Discard soaking water
Layer in the onion, carrot, lotus, dried daikon, arame in a stainless skillet, adding just enough water to cover veggies. Drizzle with Hiraide Sesame Oil and diluted tahini, and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bring to boil on medium flame, let cook 10 minutes uncovered; cover & simmer 30 minutes.
Remove cover.
Add several drops shoyu, then corn kernels.
Cook to let excess water evaporate.
The secret tooth sweet. As the minerals in the arame crystalize, they become even sweeter!

Variation: add mashed tofu, broccoli, pumpkin seeds for other delicious arame!
Add sesame or olive oil instead of tahini.
Presaute onions in sesame oil before adding arame, for a more yang style cooking.

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

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