Atlanta Macrobiotics Presents

Gluten-Free Macrobiotic Cooking Class Saturday Series – 2012

Class Fee $45 per person    RSVP: 770 . 396 . 9413    Cell: 678 . 643 . 5662

marsharueff@mac.com                          1 – 4 PM

Limited seating. Please respond early. Your check reserves your place.

Please send check to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

Bonus: Sign up and pay for 10 classes, and get one class free.!

Saturday, January 28 Let’s Start at the Very Beginning!

A great Class for Beginners, and for those wanting to Begin the New Year on the Right Foot! Call it Basics, Getting Your Footing,  Beginning Macro 101! This class prepares your Macrobiotic journey in an orderly & non-time-consuming fashion.

Miso Soup

Chestnut Rice & Gomashio

Nishimi Vegetables

Arame on Watercress

Scrumptious Pear Kanten

Bancha Tea

Plus, we’ll discussion & information covering:

What’s a Macro Kitchen Like, Anyway????

Tools of the Trade: What’s my Kitchen Missing & Where Do I Buy It?

A Little Kitchen Organization Goes A Long Way

What Pot’s For What, and What’s Not

Cook Books to Make My Life Easier, and Food Delish

Shopping Locally & Ordering Speciality Foods

Saturday, Feb 11   Cooking Nabe, the Perfect Winter Dish, Macro-Fondu, Qwik N Easy!

Want to enjoy a warm, cozy feeling, relaxing all winter long. Nabe serves your family and friends so easily.Festive fun cooked Sur La Table, reminiscent of the popular Fondu Pots, now enjoy a healthier, lighter version. Easy to prepare. Relaxes your kidneys, and this meal is very easy to digest. Bring out the Nabe Pot soon as the weather begins to cool.

Preparing the Nabe Pot: Kombu & Shiitake

Noodles: Udon, Rice or Soba

Serving Equipment at the Table

Vegetable Selection

Seasoning Your Bowls

Garnishes: Mochi, Scallions,

Bancha Tea

Saturday, March 3   Cooking for Digestion: IBS, Colitis, Chrones, etc.

Approaching Spring the time of year to support our liver qnd gqll bladder through strengthening dishes and special remedies. We’ll also discuss foods to avoid, the friendly food mill, and how to ease into Macro with serious health concerns.

Kinpira Soup

Millet with Vegetables, Oh How Sweet It Is

Nishimi Vegetables with Kuzu Gravy

Steamed Greens with Lemon Slice

Brown Rice Lotus Patties with Lotus Sauce

Remedy: Ume Sho Kuzu

Sho Ban Tea

Blueberry Peach Puddin’ or Pye

Saturday, April 14  Cooking for Strong, Healthy Bones

Concerns of osteoporosis, osteopenia, scoliosis, arthritis just to name a few are greater concerns as we age, & hear how many close to us face these diagnoses. Choosing these dishes, and learning foods to avoid, relieves intense pain while improving the condition.

Sweet & Brown Rice

The Yellow Soybean O-s-t-e-o Stew

Daikon Roots & Tops

Sardine Spread , A Very Unique Remedy

Nori Condiment

A Berry Soothing Kanten

Barley Tea

Saturday, May 5    Eatin’ Healthy on the’ Fly! Plane, Airport, Road-trip ‘n Out!

How’s a serious Macro travel on a plane, in a car, if you please? Can I ever again go overseas? What’ll I eat, and stay on track? I really want to get my health back. Can I ever eat out with friends again? Or do I just have to stay in. Designed for you, this class will show, ‘xactly how Macro’s can be on the Go!

Rice Balls

Rolls: Nori Rolls; Green Rolls

Pasta Salad

Thermos Rice & Other Grains

How to Survive Airport Food

Packing a Cooler for Your Road-Trip

Cooking in Your Hotel Room without Anyone the Wiser

Restaurants ~ How to Order, Healthier Choices & When to Splurge

How to Cook Macro when You’re a House-Guest, & Get Invited Back!

Saturday, June 9  Heart Healthy Summer Sizzler’s, Light Macro Cookin’

Summer picnics, lighter cuisine, and cooling off Hotlanta’s steamy sunshine highly lightens this menu.To relax and cool you with Summer’s Favorite Fare!

Cucumber Coolers

Watercress Shoyu Broth

Long Grain Brown Rice & Fresh Corn

You wouldn’t believe it’s Chick’n-less Tempeh Salad

Pressed Napa Salad & White Miso Tarragon Dressing

Arame Orange Watercress Delight

Watermelon Kanten

Red Zinger Tea

Saturday, July 14 Macro Cooking for Diabetes Can Change Your Health

You’ve heard this: change your cooking, change your health! Macro is so helpful with diabetes, hypoglycemia, pancreatitis, and other diagnoses related to the pancreas. A solid base of healthy Macrobiotic recipes improves these conditions rapidly when well-learned and conscientiously followed.

Miso Soup

Brown Rice and Millet

Black Soybean with Onions and Chestnuts

Kinpira

Sauteed Collards & Kale

Sweet Vegetable Drink

Bancha Tea

Saturday, September 15 Pizza Party & Gluten Free! Let the Good Times Roll!

Pizza Night’s a whole lot Funner now! Kid-you-not, and here’s the How: Gluten-free, & nightshade veggies aren’t in sight! So, top those Pizza Pie’s to your delight

Gluten Free Crust

Polenta Crust Pizza

Millet crust Pizza, avoids Candida

All Vegan Macro Toppings

Just a Few More Topping Surprises

Bancha Tea with Hot Apple Cider

September 29:  Macro Gluten-Free Cooking is a Win-Win Combo!

I’ve often wished everyone new to Macro could first have 6 weeks gluten-free, & address Candida issues, well, just because of what we all use to eat. I experienced the pleasure of a Macro-Candida diet a few years ago, and the benefits were enormous! Eating gluten-free has become an issue for many, and this class will help you use your macro knowledge and many of your products, raising your health to the next level.

Candida doesn’t like Millet for Breakfast

Creamy Broccoli Soup

Brown Rice & Rye

Savvy Navy Bean Soup

Sauteed Greens

Hijiki

Pau D’Arco Tea

Additional foods, teas and remedies to be discussed

Recipe Handout will also list food to enjoy ‘n avoid

Saturday, October 13 What’s a Macro Girl/Fella Taking to Tailgate & Potluck?

Everyone’s talking ‘bout the exciting game, but you’re just focused on what to bring? Will your friends like what you’ve cooked? You just can’t stop looking through all your cookbooks. Now you can relax, no worries, or frown. Your Super-Bowl Dish just scored a Touch Down! Make it early in the day! Easy to carry and savory tastes for later!

Hands Down – Wild About Rice

Chili: but Nightshade Veggies are Not Invited!

Easy Enchiladas

Carrot Apple Walnut Salad

Apple Crisp

Saturday, November 17 Holiday Cooking for Thanksgiving Dinner Memories

Thanksgiving Memories come alive with the savory flavors and aromas of these selected dishes. Cooked with all organic foods and minimum seasonings they still satisfy our memory palate, and will delight your guests!

Tofurkey with Herbed Stuffing

Southern Pecan Mushroom Gravy

Granny Chester’s Cranberry Sauce

Easy Squash Pie with Toasted Pecans

Collards & Kale Garnish, just to get in the Greens

Pumpkin Pie with It’s Better’n Creme

Bancha Tea with Hot Apple Cider

Did you use to cook a Sweet Potato Pudding for Thanksgiving with 4 cups of brown sugar, Carnation condensed sweet milk, sweet potatoes – queen of the night shade vegetables, plus 3 cans of Dole crushed pineapples? Topped with melted brown marshmellows? Yep, that was my beloved family’s heritage recipe from all Thanksgivings past, and just about every other holiday as well.

Now enter a Macrobiotic Diet, 17 years of it to be exact, and we found the most delish substitute – cooked stove-top, delectably sweet, savory and healthy!

In my macrobiotic cooking classes I call it Easy Squash Pie, but our first Thanksgiving dinner with my son-in-law’s family when his dear Aunt Gail said, “This is the best Sweet Potato Pie I’ve ever had”, my daughter and I never said a word that it was made with Kabocha Squash! Kids of all ages enjoy this one! And a dessert really good for you, too! Didja know, squash is really good for our skin and especially our pancreas?

Here’s the recipe for you and your family to enjoy and savor!

Easy Squash Pie
1 Kabocha squash per 8 people, cut in inch large chunks
please use organic and do not peel, just cut away hard spots on
surface
potato masher
Steamer basket
Filtered or Spring water
Pinch Si Salt Sea Salt – teeny pinch enhance sweetness of squash
Optional: Suzanne’s Brown Rice Syrup if you wish a little sweeter

Directions:
1. Steam squash for about 20 minutes, until knife slides easily through chunks.
2. Mash squash, and place in pie pans, serve warm.
That’s it folks! Nature has sweetened this squash for you! Yummy it up!
Optional: set into pie crust if you like.
Sprinkle with toasted pecans.

Please join our Thanksgiving Cooking Class, Sunday November 22nd
Atlanta/Dunwoody, Georgia 1-4 pm for a complete Thanksgiving Dinner
Menu perfect for vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic diets! $45 per person.
Can’t make that date? Private classes are available.
Check our website for menu: www.atlantamacrobiotics.com
RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com or call: 770 -396-9413
Not in Atlanta? Send your $20 check to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338 for perfectly wonderful and healthy Thanksgiving
recipes! Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your dear ones!

Wow, Warren is cooking up a storm in Atlanta!

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!

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Macrobiotic Counselor

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues.

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Saturday, July 18, at 5:00 PM please join us for a Macrobiotic Lecture, Application of the Five Transformations, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy, following the Wrap it Up! Awesome Sandwiches & Wraps Macrobiotic Cooking Class at The Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

We learn studying macrobiotics how the effects of food we’ve eaten in the past does not just exit our bodies when we stop eating it. We all wish this were the case! Clients often say, Oh, I haven’t eaten cheese for over a year, how can you think it is affecting the arthritis in my knees? So, what do we do to expedite a change in our health, and reap the benefits of eating on a Macrobiotic Diet?

Just wait til you hear Warren’s lecture, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy Applying the Five Transformations. His information will absolutely astound you! Applying macrobiotic principles, makes so much sense, and as Warren explains the energetics of the food, everything falls into place. Learning how to draw the effects of food out of your body gives you such freedom to restore your health, melt tumors, look and feel younger, and increase your energy tremendously. And you’ll understand the why of it all. I always introduce Warren as our why man – because he takes the time to explain and chart the rudimentary basis of this structure. The yin and yang of it all will surely play into this too!

And you can’t even begin to imagine how much better you will feel! Food tastes more delish than ever before! Yes, our taste buds change when we stop sugar and dairy. We develop a gourmet taste for real food and some items we’ve never before enjoyed. Macrobiotic cuisine isn’t bland or tasteless, but flavorful and delicious. We  still satisfy our sweet tooth using Suzanne’s Genmai Brown Rice Syrup and Barley Malt and sweet vegetables. You might even easily slim down in the process. One thing is for sure! There is almost no favorite dish you will have to do without. It’s surely been recreated in a macrobiotic recipe version to please your palate!

Warren will be suggesting actual dishes, and some home remedies, special drinks – certain combinations of foods, and your notes will reflect unique properties of these dishes.You will find this class very beneficial as Warren introduces you to a whole new level of macrobiotic cooking, broadening your understanding of the macrobiotic lifestyle.

Recommended cookbook: Sweet & Natural, by Meredith McCarty for 120 desserts without sugar, eggs, yeast, butter

A little more details about Saturday’s Macrobiotic Cooking Class on Snacks ……..

March 9-14, what a great way to Spring Clean, and jumpstart your health for 2011! Warren Kramer, yes the same counselor film star, Alicia Silverstone mentions in The Kind Life website. Arriving in Atlanta in just a few days, and there are a few private counseling sessions open! You can call or email to save your very own time with Warren! And get ready to implode your health journey!

Lectures and Cooking Classes with Warren! Once you’ve attended one, you’ll be hooked like we are! This guy is fresh off the Macro Cruise where he was booked around the clock and lectured to standing room groups. And why not? Warren was private assistant to Michio Kushi nearly 12 years, a non-paying position, for one dedicated individual to learn from the Master! Scribing notes during counseling sessions from early morning til the wee hours – and he learned it so well.

And there’s so much more to Warren, than just that! You’ll hear it all when you join us. In fact, Warren is now the Senior Counselor Michio recommends for counseling. Yep, Michio’s handed it over to Warren. So come join us in Atlanta and reap the benefit of all those counseling experiences. Check out this website event times, places.

RSVP: Marsha Rueff  770 . 396 . 9413 or email: marsharueff@mac.com

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