Instructor: TİJEN İNALTOG
Dates: 25-26 July 2009
Duration: 10 Hours / 10.00-12:30 – 16:30-19.00
Fee: 200 TL

This is a two day workshop. In the morning, we will prepare our lunch, in the afternoon, dinner. We will prepare tasty, healthy and colorful foods because a health body is possible with a healthy diet. We want to be energetic and live so we will learn how to do this with little changes in our cooking ways and shopping lists. We will see how we can replace refined, commercially prepared foods with seasonal, wholesome and local ingredients. We will see how we can enjoy our time in the kitchen, how to bake our bread, make our own yogurt and cheese. We will prepare healthy sweets by using natural sweetners, we will fill a bowl with all nutritious elements that a body requires during the day, we will enrich our salads or soups so that it can be our meal with a slice of bread. We will learn how we can use vegetables and wild greens in different ways, how to sprout beans and grains. We will even travel around the world by cooking healthy foods of other cultures. Then we will see that it’s time to eat and we will sit around the table with joy and excitement, hold hands and thank for all the foods on our table.

PROGRAM

I. The importance of healthy and balanced diet
Conscious shopping
Foods prepared by using wholesome/healthy ingredients; sweets made with natural sweetners;
soy milk and tofu; uses of whole grains and beans; alternative ways of using greens and vegetables

II. Bread, Cheese and Beyond
Have you ever baked your own bread? Breads made by using natural leaveners (chickpea, sour dough and linden flower); making our own cheese and yogurt; aromatic vinegars/oils.

III. Everything Bowl
Sometimes we have no time for cooking. Even if we do, we don’t want to spend much time in the kitchen. But we still want to eat healthy. What should we do? We fill a bowl with everything: carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and lots of fiber! A bowl of soup or a bowl of salad. May be a bowl of veggies with beans/legumes/grains.

IV. Wholesome recipes from Anatolia and/or from the World.