Healthy Soshoku/Japanese Healthy Cooking

I hosted an Airbnb experience garden tour & Soba noodle and tempura class today. I escorted them to vegetable garden and showed them what’s growing now. The guest is Indian couple and their 6 years old daughter. For my surprising, she likes Japanese food and she wanted to learn how to cook Japanese food such as sushi. She wanted to join today and she cut green onion, peel sweet potato skin very well. I harvested Butternuts squash & Chayote squash from garden.

I taught Japanese pancake & noodle class today. This class is the wedding gift to today’s customer who just married few month ago. The wife visited Japan twice and she knows about Japanese food pretty well and she can cook too. She is a Italian and he is a German, so they are European. They are very health conscious and they grow own vegetables in the backyard. They are very sweet, gave me two big pomegranates which they got from neighbor.

I re-planted Burdock and seeded Turnip today.

Today’s harvest

Turnip & Komatsuna & Chayote squash

I taught Black Cod & vegetable tempura class. This class was spacial request from the guest her husband lived in Japan around two years and he loves Japanese meal. Even this menu is not on my list but she requested for her husband. He speaks very good Japanese too. I was so impressed that he was so ready to adapt Japanese culture and life.

I harvested carrot, Komatsuna, Japanese pumpkin, chayote squash, shiso leaf, green onion from my garden.

I taught The Art of Sushi class today. This time the guest was university student who returned home during summer holidays. Her father requested cooking class for her since she loves sushi and wanted to learn how to make sushi at home. She learned a lot and she did pretty good job for this class. Her father helped some part but mainly she cooked everything by herself.

I harvested Komatsuna, green onion, green shiso and trefoil from my garden. I brought home made miso and pickled plum as well.

I taught Japanese pancake & noodle class first time. I thought about detailed logistics & work flow for this new class but still I was kind of nervous for the first class. The customer worked together very well as a team and they cooked nice Japanese pancake(pork & seafood), stir fried noodle and dessert. For my surprising, they liked agar agar texture too which sometimes people does not like.

I taught The Art of Sushi class today. Today’s class was a gift from daughter to her father as a father’s day gift since he was very interested in Japanese cooking. The kitchen was very organized and they have compost too. So they are environmental conscious. I harvested Komatsuna, Trefoil, green onion, shiso leaves from my garden.

They really enjoyed roasting sesame because for my surprising she already tried to roast sesame with fry pan & oven. I respect her challenging spirit and seriousness for healthy cooking. We chat a lot during class and this is very fun class to teach.

I traveled to Switzerland visited Luzern, hiked Jungfrau area, visited Bern, Mt. Pilatus, and München.

06/30 Luzern

It was unusually hot in Luzern, no cooler in hotel. But very pretty city.

Capel Bridge

07/01~07/05 Lauterbrunnen

I stayed Lauterbrunnen and hiked for 5 days.

Schilthorn, North Face trail

Kilchbalm

Obersteinberg

Gross Scheidegg

Via Alpina

07/06 Bern

I visited Paul Klee museum & Einstein Museum

07/07 Mt. Pilatus

07/08~07/09 München

Bike ride to English Garden, Beer Garden, city

I visited vegetable garden this morning for harvesting vegetables and visited this afternoon to seed vegetable.

I taught The Art of Sushi class as the anniversary celebration for the relationship. I harvested Japanese cucumber, shiso leaf, green onion trefoil from my garden. They worked together as a team and we finished class little earlier than usual. They made very nice presentation too. They really enjoyed hand wrap sushi.

I taught cooking class on Saturday & Sunday this weekend, so pretty busy weekend. Every time I teach class, I learned something new. I love teach cooking and meet new people.