Learn To Cook

Seven Days To Better Health

  • Give yourself the kick start you need to transform the way you eat and feel by building healthier habits.
  • One on one intensive training in your home.
  • Seven days that can be done consecutively or over a period of time.

 

Below is an outline of the kinds of things that you will learn over the seven days.

Each course will be individually tailored to fit each person’s needs, abilities and desires.

Create a working Kitchen

  • Organising and rearranging your kitchen work space
  • Obtain proper equipment and tools
  • Stocking all necessary ingredients
  • Buying and sourcing products
  • Storing products and produce
  • Introduce natural cleaning products

 

How to take the next steps forward:

  • Evaluation of your current health.
  • Customised menu planning for your condition.
  • How to create balanced meals for vitality, weight management and clarity of mind.
  • Lifestyle guidelines - learning habits that support your health.

   
Cooking Together
• Cutting techniques:
Slicing with the energy of vegetables, diagonals, matchsticks, half moons, half moon diagonals, ribbons, roll-cut and dicing, etc.
• Cooking styles:
Pressure cooking, steaming, boiling, blanching, shocking, sautéing, deep frying, stewing and baking.

 

The Basics
Soups, whole grains, pressed salads, dressings, beans, sea vegetables, stews, hearty meat alternatives such as seitan, tempeh, dried and fresh tofu, plus a variety of vegetable preparations.

Beverages

  • What to drink when and why?

Desserts..all non-dairy and sugar free

  • Chocolate cake
  • Lemon poppy seed cake
  • White almond vanilla Kanton with orange sauce Pumpkin cake
  • Amazake muffins
  • Apple cinnamon muffins
  • Carrot walnut cake.

More Gourmet Dishes

  • Vegetable / seafood tempura with roasted red pepper sauce or sweat and tangy lemon dip.
  • Sushi with marinated shitake, tempeh or tofu plus avocado, spring onion and carrot.
  • Broiled halibut with shitake teriyaki sauce and orange zest.
  • Vietnamese spring rolls with spicy peanut sauce.
  • Fried spring rolls with sweet and spicy mustard dip.
  • Vegetable coconut curry Thai or Indian style.

Making your own pickles:
(An important part of a healthy diet)

  • Quick pickles, salt pickles, soy sauce pickles, ume pickles, flavoured pickles.

Preparing condiments

Basic recipes and drinks to
alleviate common ailments

  • Sweet vegetable drink - for balancing blood sugar levels.
  • Ume-sho-kuzu drink – for strengthening digestion and relieving general fatigue.
  • Ume-sho-bancha drink – for strengthening the blood and circulation.
  • Sweet kuzu drink – relieves overly tight conditions and headaches.
  • Lotus root tea – relieves coughing, respiratory problems and excess mucus in the body.
  • Shitake mushroom tea – relaxes tension and stress in the body and helps to dissolve excess animal fats.
  • Ginger compress – stimulates blood circulation in stagnant organs especially kidney, stomach and intestines.
  • Salt Pack – To warm the body and relieve such things as diarrhea and menstrual cramps.

 

E-Mail Simone for more Information
S@SimonesKitchen.com