cooking japanese @ wabi+sabi+ kitchen

Have you ever wished you knew what a lot of those confusing looking ingredients sitting on Japanese supermarket shelves were? And have you ever wished you knew how to cook healthy dishes with them? Well this is the place to go to learn how to cook healthy, well-balanced dishes using Japanese food ingredients at home. Not only you’ll acquire a whole new variety of tasty dishes, you will learn a lot of Japanese tradition thru our food culture. Come and join us!

Friday, May 18, 2007

++Workshop Formats++

The menus change by month which is arranged depending on foods in season and special occasions or events the occur that certain month. Each menu basically consists of a rice dish, a soup dish, okazu (main dish), 1 to 2 fukusai (small sidedish mainly using vegetable, tofu, beans, etc) depending on time, and dessert.

A lot of the vegetable we use are fresh picks from a vegetable field near our house. (I am currently searching for a field where I can grow my own vegetables)
Each workshop is for 2 persons max and is conducted at our apartment, and the time is basically 3 to 3.5 hrs; 2.5 hrs of introduction (ie ingredients, culture, tradition etc) and cooking, 1 hr of eating and cleaning up (but many tend to stay for more hours!)

Aside from regular workshops, I also offer extracurricular workshops where we prepare Japanese preserves, ie umeboshi (pickled plums), miso, salted cherry blossoms, dried vegetables, and special Japanese dishes like osechi (Japanese New Year cuisine) etc. I also arrange special excursions upon requests, ie Tsukiji market, Kappabashi shopping, sansai (mountain herb) picking etc.

posted by Kaori @ 1:23 AM