Atlanta Macrobiotics

Atlanta Macrobiotics Presents:

Tuesday’s with Marsha

Macrobiotic Cooking Class Mid-Week Series – 2011

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Tuesday, January 18        Welcome to Macrobiotics!

Happy New Year! A perfect time for New Year Resolutions, and turning over that new leaf! How about starting this New Year with an interest in eating a balanced meal that enhances how you feel! We‘ll prepare a balanced meal you can use as a guideline and enjoy the amazing effects eating well easily brings! Energizing you at the same time! Introductory basics and excellent refresher for the experienced macro cook!

The MacDaddy Miso Soup

Pressure-Cooking Brown Rice Really isn’t Scary!

Azuki Beans-Kombu-Squash, the Magic Potion of Macrobiotics

Quik-Quik Blanched Greens with Pumpkin Seed Dressing

Homemade Gomashio

Poached Apple Surprise

The Secret to Bancha Tea

Tuesday, February 8      Macrobiotic Home Remedies

Mid-winter! And you’re determined to avoid meds, side effect warnings and toxins! Learn instead how your daily food ingredients found in every macro kitchen make remedies to recreate your health. Sample & learn when to use, for whole new level of health benefits on your Macrobioitic diet!

Ginger Compress

Ume Sho Kuzu Drink

Sho Bancha Tea

Sweet Vegetable Drink

Carrot-Daikon Drink

Lotus Root Tea

Black Soybean Tea

Tuesday, March 15        Macrobiotic Basic Dishes

Warren’s just been here the previous week, and some of you want to know if you are getting everything just so! This class we’ll cover the basics so you feel really secure in preparing all foods Warren has recommended in your Private Consultations! Remember, macrobiotics was never really meant to be learned from books, but shown and shared!

Brown Rice & Barley

Nishimi Vegetables

Pressed Salad & Easy Dressing

Arame Supreme

Lemon Creamy Kanten

Bancha Tea

Tuesday, April 12    Macro Soup du Jour: always Delish &             Nutritious

Yummy and delish, these soups relax us when we sit down to dine. And  you know, with the radiation crisis in Japan, interest for ourselves and loved ones here and elsewhere focus on strengthening ourselves from being affected by fallout. Each of these 5 recipes represent styles of cooking soups with the most effective foods used at the time of previous nuclear crisis. Besides this, these soups will become your family favorites, and give you a basis for many variations as you discover more and more recipes.

My Secret Creamy Squash Veggie Soup

The MacDaddy Strengthener, Kinpira Soup

Over-the-Moon Miso Soup

Sweet and Sassy Azuki Bean Soup

Aveline’s Amazing Brown Rice Soup

Tuesday, May 10    Shop, Meal-Plan, When & How to Cook What

Do you ever wonder which pot to use, what to soak when, which dish to cook first, and how in the world to have everything ready to serve at the same time? And what about shopping? What brand, quality, store, ordering on-line or over the phone? Meal plan? Are you kidding? You actually think I have time to sit down and write out what I’m going to cook?  I’m wingin’ it so much, I’m growin’ feathers!

Meal Planning

Ordering Food from Natural Import, Kushi Institute, Rhapsody

What’s the Pot Callin’ the Kettle? Le Creuset, Iwachu pot, Pressure Cooker

Iron Skillets & The 3 S’s: Stainless, Stoneware, Soapstone

Now You’re Cookin’ with Gas!

Tapas Taster in this class to demo various cookware

Tuesday, June 14 Macro-Gluten-Free-‘N While We’re at it, Let’s Get Rid of Candida too!

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

Tuesday, July 12        Breakfast of Champions: Feel Your Best Every Single Day!

Just about everyone inquiring about macrobiotics eventually asks: What do you really eat for Breakfast! Bet these will become your favorites too!

Really Creamy Porridge that’s Not Oatmeal

Creamy Corn Grits

Fried Polenta Squares

Sauteed Greens

Blueberry Pancakes

Mochi Pecan Waffles & You Won’t Believe it’s Not Maple Syrup

Macro Cappucino

Tuesday, September 13

Cooking to Eliminate Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Osteopenia

Get ready to feel improvement immediately! Learn the acidic & tropical foods to avoid, all about nightshades, and how alkaline foods comprise your new friendly cuisine! Using The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, we’ll look at exactly where you will find guidelines for your particular condition.

Sweet & Brown Rice Sushi Rolls

Soybean Stew

Daikon Roots & Tops

Sea Palm Parsnip Delight

Azuki Almond Mousse

Kinpira

Barley Tea

Tuesday, October 11

Just Women: Cooking Macro for Health & Beauty We Deserve

Whoever realized a woman’s job is never done was brilliant. Especially as she works outside the home, today’s woman truly has 6+ jobs! Career, family, husband, household, social life & entertaining, and taking care of herself: eating well, including shopping, cooking & taking the time to eat; exercise; walking in Nature, Add to this how fast everything is moving in today’s world, and she carries huge pressure day-to-day, Recipes nourishing female organs, emotions, & tendency to get too yang will keep us supple, sexier, dancing & flexible!

Chestnut Black Soybean Rice

Nishimi Vegetables

Carrot Apple Walnut Salad

Arame Supreme

Tapas Dessert Collection: A Girl’s Gotta do What A Girl’s Gotta Do

CCCookies Teeny Bit of Chocolate Mousse      Oh, Lacey Almondine Cookies

Red Zinger Tea & Hot Apple Cider

Mu Tea on request

Tuesday, November 8         Thanksgiving Memory Meal

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.

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

Tuesday, December 13        Hors D’oeuvres, Party Foods, Healthy Desserts

Holiday entertaining is fun when you have just the right dishes to pamper your guests. These time-saving dishes will easily get you the accolades you deserve and you will have lots of time to get everything else done too! Happy Holidays throughout the month!

Millet Pancakes and a Latke Look-alikes

Mushroom Nuggets

Tempeh Rolls

Assorted Spanikopita

Baby it’s Cold Outside, Chili

Easy Does it Enchiladas

Note: nightshade veggies are not invited!

Cranberry Apple Pear Crisp

Hot Apple Cider

We associate certain dishes with every holiday! The Green Bean Casserole was certainly a favorite on our family’s table, set in that exquisite silver covered dish! Topped with crispy onion rings! Can’t you taste it!! So how does this overcooked half-canned, half-frozen vegetable dish ever surface on a healthy Vegan Macrobiotic Thanksgiving Feast we love to share with family and friends today??

Since I served this dish to my children as they were growing up, our daughter has mentioned it to her daughters, who in fact tasted a not-so-healthy version, and of course loved the taste a year or two ago. Each Thanksgiving since, they’ve requested my old Green Bean Casserole. They may as well have asked for Green Eggs and Ham! It just wasn’t going to happen. Then, my daughter called, saying this last week Trader Joe’s featured a tasting station of  a healthier green bean casserole. And  at Whole Foods I spotted Lars Imported Crispy Onions, All Natural. Now I felt  challenged to reinvent this dish.

Just last week my Navy Bean soup surprised me and tasted just perfect for the base of this dish. Here’s what I did, and hope you get to enjoy also for the Thanksgiving Holidays. Maybe this recipe will guide your own adaptation down your family’s Memory Lane of Favorite Holiday Cuisine.

1 cup organic navy beans, rinsed & soaked over night in heavy Le Creuset pot       Recipe for about 4-5 persons
4-5 cups water
1 inch piece of kombu
Si Salt Sea Salt, from Kushi Institute Store
Shoyu, Sakurazawa from Natural Import Company or Kushi Institute Store

Discard soaking water, add kombu and add water to cover.
Bring to boil, skimming off foam, adding additional cold water to shock beans, and skim more foam,
for about 20 minutes. Cover beans and cook til soft.

1 cup sliced organic mushrooms
2 cups fresh string beans, sliced thin, sauteed in olive oil
1/2 cup sliced lotus root
1/4 cup sliced jerusalem artichokes
1/2 cup organic almonds, toasted, and chopped
1/4 cup Lars crispy onions to mix within vegetables
1/2 cup Lars crispy onions topping casserole dish

While beans cook, slice vegetables for casserole dish very finely.
Saute vetables in olive oil til soft.
Once bean dish is a soft creamy soup, add Si Salt Sea Salt, and Shoyu to your preferred taste.
Transfer to a casserole serving dish you can place in oven.
Stir in sauteed vegetables, almonds, and add 1/4 cup crispy onions for crunch.
Top with 1/2 cup Lars crispy onions, and bake just to meld flavors, about 20 minutes at 325 degrees.

And when you serve this dish, I hope you sit back & enjoy remembering the sweet times at your mother and grandmother’s tables this Thanksgiving, just like me.

Cooler weather’s started, and we’re amidst Fall’s colorful leaf serenade! Warren Kramer, Macrobiotic Senior Counselor, once again on the Atlanta scene, lecturing, counseling and presenting his always informative, entertaining and delicious cooking classes for this very season, carrying us into winter!

Hurry to book your private consultation: 90 minutes for your first appointment, and 60 minutes for follow-up! And if you follow Alicia Silverstone’s website, The Kind Life, after reading her book, The Kind Diet, you’ll recognize Warren Kramer is her counselor!  Warren’s the one she recommends you to see if he’s coming to your city! We are sooooo lucky having this great counselor, Michio Kushi’s private assistant for about 12 years, travelin’ to Atlanta 4 times a year!

If you are newly practicing Macrobiotics, this is a wonderful place to start, like Julie Andrew sings, Let’s start from the very beginning! You will meet like-minded, lovely participants with wonderfully encouraging stories and helpful hints to share with you ~ and great confidence builders! As well as others pretty new to macro-land, and very willing to share the pointers that helped them start in the most recent months.

How Warren develops these amazing new topics just floors me. We are so much looking forward to Warren’s new topics. Check out the descriptions in the following brochure. Please just click on this link to visit the page with a link  to the PDF, named Warren Kramer November Web. Clicking on that text opens the flyer we’ve prepared for you with dates, prices, discounts & and location for the numerous events Warren will be presenting.

Have any questions? And to RSVP: please email marsharueff@mac.com or call Marsha Rueff at home: 770 . 396 . 9413 or cell: 678 . 643 . 5662. Your check reserves your appointment with Warren, and your place in the lecture and cooking classes. Events will be held in Dunwoody: 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338. Easy access to Georgia 400. Soon as you contact us, we’ll email you directions! Hope to see you soon!

Thanksgiving gatherings and memories with familiar tastes featured in healthy holiday recipes make this Macrobiotic Cooking Class special.  You’ll be amazed how we’ve captured  flavors of dishes you will easily remember from your own family Thanksgiving celebrations. Our participants’ taste-buds always recall their grandmother’s recipe, and when this feeling resonates throughout the room, it’s so gratifying! It’s a Wow! And now you, too, can recreate these memory foods for your family and friends in a much healthier version, continuing your own family traditions.

And the October date allows you plenty of time to practice dishes at home, call or email any questions you may have, as well as shop for your ingredients well before November 25 rolls around! Start up singing Turkey in the Straw… cause you’ll be serving our Tofurrr-key instead, and let the turkeys enjoy their Hootchie Kootchie Dance!

And remember, these recipes are developed on guidelines for practicing a macrobiotic diet, so very healthy ingredients are used, and there’s no sign of poultry, eggs, sugar, meat, nightshade veggies anywhere near this Pilgrim’s Thankful Feast!

Menu

Tofurrr-key or Faux Turkey
Herbed Massasoit Stuffing
Southern Folk Pecan Mushroom Gravy
Easy Squash Pie with Toasted Pecans
Granny Chester’s Cranberry Sauce
Pocahantas Pumpkin Pie with It’s-Not- Creme
Oh my, do i see a Pumpkin Nut Bread, too?
Warm-panoag Apple Cider

RSVP: Marsha Rueff       marsharueff@mac.com       p: 770 . 396 . 9413     c: 678 . 643 . 5662
Your check holds your reservation. Please write and mail check to:
Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

and we’ll have you out the door in time for your Halloween Party!!!

singin’

Over the river and through the woods
To Grandfather’s house we go.
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh
Through white and drifted snow.

Over the river and through the woods
To have a first-rate play.
Hear the bells ring,
Ting-a-ling-ling!
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!

Over the river and through the woods,
Trot fast, my dapple gray!
Spring over the ground
Like a hunting hound,
For this is Thanksgiving Day.

Over the river and through the woods –
Now Grandmother’s cap I spy!
Hurrah for fun!
Is the pudding done?
Hurray for the pumpkin pie!

Are you new to a vegan, vegetarian, or macrobiotic diet and wondering what in the world to feed your family this Thanksgiving Dinner? Well, wonder no more, and stop fretting about all the delightful yummy wishful dishes you are missing this year! Because, here is Thanksgiving memory food created at its very best! Gourmet tastes featuring the finest healthy ingredients! Exactly what you’re looking for! Without sugar, eggs, dairy, and poultry, msg, etc.

You’re Invited to

Holiday Cooking Class Series

A Macrobiotic Thanksgiving Dinner

featuring

Tofurkey with Herbed Stuffing

Southern Pecan Mushroom Gravy

Cranberry Sauce

Vegetable Medley

Pumpkin Pie

Sunday, November 22

1-4 pm

$45.00 per person

We will be cooking a Tofurky, or as my granddaughter Brittany calls it, a Faux Turkey! Unbelievable taste – you’ll relish it and wonder why you suffered with turkey all those years! Now, if you had store-bought tofurkeys in the past, they do not even come close to comparing with this incredible taste of a fresh home-made look-alike turkey breast made from the best tofu. Filled with amazing Herbed Stuffing, and everyone’s favorite: Southern Pecan Mushroom Gravy. Homemade Cranberry Sauce, Pumpkin Bread, and Pumpkin Pie featuring Franciscan Monk, Brother Ron Pickarsky’s award-winning crust. Every dish features organically grown vegetables and other products.

RSVP your reservation to hold your spot with Kushi Institute trained Marsha Rueff at 770-396-9413. Your  check will hold your place. Please send to Marsha Rueff, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338.

This class might even be worth your trip to Atlanta! Can’t make that particular date? Other dates can be arranged, and private classes also available.