Being shellfish
Today was devoted to shellfish and included a lecture and demo on the different kinds of shellfish and how to prepare them. By lunch, we were preparing and eating raw oysters, fresh boiled lobster, mussels simmered in wine, baked stuffed clams, and blackened shrimp on a stove top grill. Rough life!
In the afternoon, we prepared fresh squid for a Sicilian style stuffed squid dish and fried calamari, and each person had to prepare a bouillabaisse type recipe in a sautee pan with clams, mussels, squid rings, shrimps and scallops, and the chef reviewed and tested each one, ensuring that we had the right consistency for the seafood in particular and it was not overcooked. We all passed with flying colours and got to eat our results!
After this, we were able to prepare whatever we wanted with the remaining shellfish, which was in piles on the front counter... mussels, clams, squid, shrimp, large scallops, etc. I made a pot full of mussels and clams with a mouliniere type sauce, which turned out quite well. After filling up on as much shellfish as we could possibly put in our bodies at one time, with accompanients of bread and pasta, we cleaned up and headed home, wondering how our bodies would handle the overdose of seafood in our systems. Each day, most of us have not been feeling well after too much of one food item and have been sharing the effects, which I won't go into detail here. And, for the next two days, we will focus on egg dishes, with salty type dishes on day one and sweet type dishes on day two. Stay tuned...
This afternoon, I had an appointment with a master healer of oriental therapy, Ken Kobayashi (www.kensheaven.com), who was referred to me from friends in NY and I met recently at a dinner at their place. He's a well known healer in Japan and in NY now, with many celebrities as his clients such as Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey of the Who, Catherine Deneuve, Andie MacDowell, etc. He's quite the incredible person, half Japanese and half Russian, who comes from a well-known family in Japan that has done healing for over 350 years. He came to NY over 28 years ago with only $75 and started up his business by doing shiatsu and his healing now include a holistic health approach that combines Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs (kampo), Shiatsu Massage, Do-In-Koh, Organice Yakuzen, Shintsu Riki, Feng Shui Koh and Kabbalah healing. He doesn't advertise, people come through word of mouth to him, and he gives away most of the money that he makes. He said that when he arrived in NY, people started coming from all over to be treated by him, and as the word spread quickly that he has incredible results in alleviating symptons and treating root causes of diseases he was up to 100 people a day at one point. However the government said that he had to reduce his business to a maximum of 5 people a day. I was fortunate to be one of those 5 people today and had an overall assessment, shiatsu and accupuncture. Wonderful! Afterwards, I went for Ken's Do-In-Koh exercise program that my friends have been really encouraging me to attend and they love. Do-In-Koh originated in China over 3,000 years ago as a Taoist system to ensure health and abudance flow of positive energy. Each posture works on a specific body part, but mostly on the kidney which Ken feels is one of the most important parts of our body to take care of, and you inhale "ki" energy (life source energy) and exhale "jaki" (toxic energy). He said he taught this exercise program to people like Tina Turner and Roger Daltrey who do it regularly and now feel they don't need to see him anymore as they are doing well. I should able to sleep well now after all these treatments...
In the afternoon, we prepared fresh squid for a Sicilian style stuffed squid dish and fried calamari, and each person had to prepare a bouillabaisse type recipe in a sautee pan with clams, mussels, squid rings, shrimps and scallops, and the chef reviewed and tested each one, ensuring that we had the right consistency for the seafood in particular and it was not overcooked. We all passed with flying colours and got to eat our results!
After this, we were able to prepare whatever we wanted with the remaining shellfish, which was in piles on the front counter... mussels, clams, squid, shrimp, large scallops, etc. I made a pot full of mussels and clams with a mouliniere type sauce, which turned out quite well. After filling up on as much shellfish as we could possibly put in our bodies at one time, with accompanients of bread and pasta, we cleaned up and headed home, wondering how our bodies would handle the overdose of seafood in our systems. Each day, most of us have not been feeling well after too much of one food item and have been sharing the effects, which I won't go into detail here. And, for the next two days, we will focus on egg dishes, with salty type dishes on day one and sweet type dishes on day two. Stay tuned...
This afternoon, I had an appointment with a master healer of oriental therapy, Ken Kobayashi (www.kensheaven.com), who was referred to me from friends in NY and I met recently at a dinner at their place. He's a well known healer in Japan and in NY now, with many celebrities as his clients such as Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey of the Who, Catherine Deneuve, Andie MacDowell, etc. He's quite the incredible person, half Japanese and half Russian, who comes from a well-known family in Japan that has done healing for over 350 years. He came to NY over 28 years ago with only $75 and started up his business by doing shiatsu and his healing now include a holistic health approach that combines Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs (kampo), Shiatsu Massage, Do-In-Koh, Organice Yakuzen, Shintsu Riki, Feng Shui Koh and Kabbalah healing. He doesn't advertise, people come through word of mouth to him, and he gives away most of the money that he makes. He said that when he arrived in NY, people started coming from all over to be treated by him, and as the word spread quickly that he has incredible results in alleviating symptons and treating root causes of diseases he was up to 100 people a day at one point. However the government said that he had to reduce his business to a maximum of 5 people a day. I was fortunate to be one of those 5 people today and had an overall assessment, shiatsu and accupuncture. Wonderful! Afterwards, I went for Ken's Do-In-Koh exercise program that my friends have been really encouraging me to attend and they love. Do-In-Koh originated in China over 3,000 years ago as a Taoist system to ensure health and abudance flow of positive energy. Each posture works on a specific body part, but mostly on the kidney which Ken feels is one of the most important parts of our body to take care of, and you inhale "ki" energy (life source energy) and exhale "jaki" (toxic energy). He said he taught this exercise program to people like Tina Turner and Roger Daltrey who do it regularly and now feel they don't need to see him anymore as they are doing well. I should able to sleep well now after all these treatments...
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