Holiday luncheon hosted by a local Japanese cooking teacher was just so amazing. Amazing in that as stuffed as you are, you feel good NOT guilty about stuffing yourself with this quality food. Normally after stuffing yourself, how do you feel? Fat and sick? You may suffer from various not-so-good feelings normally when you over-eat. Not with this food with its detox benefits in mind. Her cooking really brings home the idea “Food as Medicine” . Fresh ingredients are locally sourced and organic; other less known ingredients with health benefits were imported from western/southern regions of Japan.
Here’s the link with few of the dishes served but will try to translate onto this site in the near future…
Among many dishes, one and only dessert she served appealed to me especially because there’s no place you can find this kind of healthier version of a traditional sweets anywhere in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley – typical oshiruko is a very sweet red bean soup that has a mochi, fluffy white sweet rice dumpling floating in the bowl.
Oshiruko, when done right has sweetness that’s subtle and not over-powering. It is a dessert dish you don’t have to feel badly about upon eating but rather, feel healthier, stronger and energized from it with no worries over counting calories. You eat this dish slowly as it’s served hot – thus, it feels you up s l o w l y… Guilt-free! Indeed, this dessert is so good for you. Like this dessert dish, each and every dish she served had significant health benefits. The most convincing proof ?
I feel GOOD … no, No, NO
I feel GREAT!
