Let’s Enjoy Pasta!
Pasta has become among the most popular foods around the world and is a major way of consuming grains. A main factor for their popularity is their versatility, ranging from salads and cold pasta dishes, quick sauces and sautéed pastas, warm gratin pastas and elaborate fresh, handmade pasta dishes, the options and possibilities seem endless. Of particular interest for this class will be the use of whole grain pastas with a fusion of classic styles and original ideas with new ingredients

Quick and Easy Sweets
Macrobiotic sweets offer the perfect solution for those who like sweets yet are careful and selective with food choices. Using mild, unrefined sweetener lower in simple sugars and other natural, wholesome ingredients, they can be part of a healthful way of eating. In this class we will focus on simple sweets that are satisfying yet can be made in a short time, which are particularly useful for our modern, busy lifestyles

Delightful Sea Vegetables
Sea vegetables provide valuable sources of nutrients, including important minerals such as iron and calcium that nourish the blood, increase immunity and strengthen the bones. In Japan they are an essential part of a rich food culture and recently being recognized as one of the secrets for their longevity. In this class we will share ideas for incorporating sea vegetables while discovering ways to cook with them that will delight even those who are beginners to this wonderful food

Healing Soups
Soups can be very comforting and helpful for restoring balance. Their soft textures and digestibility provide easily absorbed nutrients and quick source of energy. As we will demonstrate in this class, some soups can be more strengthening and provide vitality; others can be more soothing and relaxing, which are more suitable when feeling stress. Also soups can help to clean and detoxify our bodies, which can be helpful for those who wish to loose weight

Cooking for Mind and Spiritual Development
Oriental countries have a long tradition of cooking for maintaining a calm, peaceful mind and spiritual development. In Japan this type of cooking is commonly called SHOJIN RYORI and is popularly served at temples. However in recent years the quality has been declining due to poor quality ingredients, speeding the cooking or too much emphasis on taste and presentation as compared to understanding the effect that food has on the mind and spirit. In this class we will demonstrate some simple dishes while discussing on some basic cooking principles and the importance of food selection

Seaweed Delights
Traditional and new ways of using nori, hijiki and other seaweeds that are
very rich in calcium, iron and other minerals.

Oriental Seitan Dishes
Seitan(wheat protein) is great meat substitute. Will introduce some rich
Seitan dishes with an oriental taste.  Even meat lovers would love them!

New Noodle Dishes
Noodles are tasty, easy to cook and fun! Quick and easy ways of cooking
Udon, somen and soba will be introduced in new styles.

Japanese Pickles and Fermented Foods
Pickles and fermented foods help your digestive system to absorb nutrients
properly. Will introduce some quick pickles and dishes using Japanese
fermented foods.

Wild Herbs Festival
In this cooking class you will learn how to prepare wild vegetables and herbs on a medicinal and culinary way. Beautiful and very tasty!

Daikon Dishes for Discharging
To achieve the best results you have to understand the following: the way of cutting the daikon; cooking it shorter or longer or not at all; choosing fresh daikon or dried daikon; which dish for which health condition. It will all be explained and shown in this class.

One Person Meals
Use your time and your ingredients on a clever way and you will be able to prepare in no time a very attractive and satisfying meal. Wieke will give personal advice on how to adjust your cooking for your personal circumstances.

Delicious Tempeh Dishes
Tempeh, made from fermented soybeans, is traditionally a food from Indonesia, a former Dutch colony. Through the Dutch macrobiotic cuisine it found its way all over the world and is now a staple food in macrobiotic cooking. Wieke will show you some tempeh dishes you will love, with an international twist.

Cooking for Gluten- and other Allergies
Dishes and drinks for better digestion. Which foods better to avoid, which foods help restore good digestion and a healthy intestinal flora.

The Art of Miso Soup
Relaxing, Strengthening, and Discharging
Miso soup is the world’s best provider of healthy enzymes and bacteria that help your digestion. Learn to prepare this soup to improve your condition. Delicious, nutritious, and always adaptable to your personal needs, work, the season and the weather.

International Famous Fish Dishes
Fish can be prepared in a variety of tasty, healthful ways. This class will show you how to select, prepare, season, and serve memorable fish dishes for special occasions.

Chinese Dim Sum
Surprising little bites from China, using vegetables, mushrooms, tofu and seitan. With the traditional Chinese dressings and sauces

Wrap Your Food!
Wraps from all around the world, from different cultures and with a variety of tasty fillings. Ideal finger food!

Cooking for Pure Skin
Macrobiotics provides a variety of drinks and dishes for a radiant skin, shiny hair, and strong nails. Beauty comes from within and should be nourished with every meal you take. Ask all your beauty questions.

Tofu in many Varieties
Low in fat and high in important nutrients such as protein and calcium, tofu is a wonderful soybean product. In this class you will discover the secret for becoming more imaginative cooking with tofu. Deep-fried, cooked, with the best seasonings, tofu will be much appreciated by young and old.

Nourishing Summer Salads
For picnic or travel, or just for a quiet meal at home, nourishing, easy to prepare salads and dressings.

International Bean Dishes
Beans have always been important protein sources. Horriah will prepare bean dishes from different cultures, using the typical beans from different areas. From Asia to the Arabic countries to South America, bean dishes traditionally are a delicious part of the daily food.

Healing Bean Dishes
Beans give us strength and vitality. Beans are richest in plant protein and high in fiber and complex carbohydrates. They traditionally give stronger, more long lasting energy than animal food, and can be prepared in delicious soups and dishes to everyone’s taste. Do you have difficulty to digest beans? Often this is not caused by the beans but by other, acid forming foods in combination with beans. Learn all about it!

Cooking with Miso
Miso, world’s most excellent food, is a staple in Japanese cuisine with many nutritional and health benefits. In this class, everything will be cooked using miso - from a grain dish to dressings for vegetables or salads..

Cooking for Diabetes
Cook the best quality sweets: sweet vegetable drink, strengthening azuki-squash, and other dishes, using grain sweeteners. Jeanne will explain the different nutritional approach for diabetes 1 and 2. (See also Adelbert Nelissen’s lecture on diabetes 1 and 2)

The Magic of Macrobiotic Home Remedies
Jeanne will show you special healing dishes for emergency and more chronic conditions, for every day’s use. Learn to make adjustments for your personal health condition.

Beat the Sugar Blues
The use of unrefined, grain based sweeteners and other natural sweeteners that help create balance in our body, without the side effects of what white, refined sugar normally does with our mind and mood.

Basic Macrobiotic Cooking  (1 and 2)
Explanation of the various ingredients used in the macrobiotic kitchen, Daily, simple and satisfying cooking for better health will be showed.

Bringing Magic into Your Kitchen 
How to enhance simple macrobiotic dishes with flavor! Scrumptious yummy treats from Sheri’s new cookbook “Macro Magic for Kids and Parents.

Lighten Up:  Refreshing Soups and Salads for the Summertime!
Sheri-Lynn will prepare soups and salads for warm days. Maximum result with minimum effort. Cooling, yet nourishing food you will love!

Deep Fried Treats
Get rid of your fear of deep-frying and surprise everybody with this most delicious and most popular food.

Sweet and Delicious Macrobiotic Desserts
A variety of healthy sweeteners will be used in various desserts. Seduce your friends and family with these incredibly tasty and beautiful desserts. Finger licking!

Home Made Sourdough Bread
Serge makes wonderful sourdough bread. He will share all his secrets with you.

Basic Cooking for Total Health (1 and 2)
Explanation of the various ingredients used in the macrobiotic kitchen, Daily, simple and satisfying cooking for better health will be showed.

Surprising Sexy Salads
Salads help us relax after a long working day or with warm weather. Petronella will show in this class the most delicious and healthy dressing for a variety of attractive salads.