What’s Misodama
Misodama is the miso-soup stock that you can make on your own.
Unlike those store available freeze dried soup stock, you can see what ingredients are used and also you can make them as you like.
As it looks like sweet chocolate truffle, or Japanese “NERIKIRI”cake you can easily have miso soup just pouring hot water.
Steamed rice and Miso soup are traditional and basic meal that have been eaten by Japanese.
Miso soup the soup that has broth from dried fish (skipjack and small sardine or others)and sea cabbage, cooked with vegetables and sea weed, tofu as ingredients and dissolve miso.
[Japanese broth - Dashi]
Dashi contains Umami flavor, which has healing effect and soften nervousness.
It also contains minerals too.
Japanese Dashi(broth) has clear color, no oil on surface.
[Ingredients]
Including fibers and nutritions from vegetables, minerals from seaweeds, we can also have proteins from Miso which is made of soy beans.
Miso is one of traditional Japanese fermented food, made by fermenting soybeans, rice, and salt.
It has a lot of enzymes and works to reduce the burden on people with weak stomachs and improve the intestinal environment.
This Miso soup, which is such a wonderful dish, is becoming less popular in Japan than it used to be, especially among young people.
The reason for this is that more and more people are finding it troublesome to make soup stock and cut vegetables.
Since miso is made from fermented soybeans, it is said that is good for maintaining the intestinal environment, where many immune cells exist, and for mental stability.
“Misodama'' are popular among Japanese people who take their lunch boxes to work or school, as those allow you to make miso soup instantly with hot water, especially when having cold meals such as rice balls or sandwiches.
Misodama can easily warm your mind and body by adding a hot dish to your meal rather than just having a cold meal.
If you have ever had miso soup at a restaurant or elsewhere, try making your own miso soup base called miso balls.
It can be stored refrigerated for 1 week to 10 days, frozen for up to 1 month.
Why not try making Misodama as an easy-to-drink handmade Japanese dish while you're in Japan?
Workshop for Making Misodama（Ｍiso-Ball）
Dates
July 2024 and thereafter to be announced
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Please email us your inquiries at takami.morisawa@gmail.com
Profile
I’m Takami Morisawa, also known as Molly, the easy aging care and Yakuzen instructor who focuses on providing beauty and health support for those aged around 50 or over with so called “make it as it was never there” and easy-step aging care Yakuzen.
Based on my own experiences of recovering from menopausal unwellness using “Home Yakuzen” that has origins in Chinese medical science, which is the method of eating according to your physical condition, I’ve been instructing Yakuzen seminars that can be practiced even without recipes.
Currently I hold an original seminar for individuals, work as an instructor at cultural facility, support fitness instructors to provide healthy eating advice to their trainees by providing them Yakuzen counseling and provide how-to-create Yakuzen menu courses to people who run food businesses.
Note: “Home Yakuzen” is the knowledge and wisdom of aiming to maintain health and preventing sicknes that was originated in China following traditional Chinese medical science.
It considers each individual intrinsically using suitable ingredients and cooking methods to match that person since everyone has unique characteristics and differences.
Following this idea, even if there is a good, highly nutritious and tasty meal, a strong stomach is required to absorb the nutrition, so ingredients and cooking methods may be adjusted or changed in case of people with a weak gastro-intestine.
Also, following the Chinese medical science principle that considers both physical and mental human health conditions are closely related to the natural environment, Yakuzen can prepare people with a prevention towards unwellness due to climate and/or seasonal changes.
Every local area has dietary habits centred around its own plants and vegetables grown, and the living forms that consume those plants and vegetables, essential to the health of the people living there.
By choosing the ingredients with essential effects based on Chinese medical science, it can be implemented in every household of every country, not necessary only to Chinese food.
My origin, encountering Yakuzen
I started my adult-life the year the Equal Employment law became effective in Japan.
Back then, even with the law in effect, women were only given assistant type of work such as photocopying or making tea.
As a career-minded young woman, seeking to have a life-time occupation I attended vocational school, and registering to temporary staffing services which was very new at that time, postponing the idea of having kids.
During that time, I got a position in lights section at an interior manufacturer.
While I was working on total lightning plans for houses, there was the time I thought becoming a consultant advising customers on the influence that lightning, which is essential to our life, would have on autonomic nerves and emotions of people was my dream vocation.
However while I was working, my husband was transferred to Italy and I moved with him.
At that time my spouse-status visa wouldn’t allow me to work, therefore I couldn’t work in the interior field although Italy was such an ideal place to work.
Besides, I had to face issues with language, security and difference in lifestyles, and creating a good environment for my husband to work was the first thing needed, therefore my life in Italy began with going to language school and to getting used to the life there.
Although I tried to visit interior show rooms and trade shows opened in the city and to study as much as I could, I struggled during my first year there with the difference in lifestyle from Japan, slow processing of paper work and not being focused on my career.
With the condition of not being able to work, we thought it may be good timing to have baby and we were very fortunate to fall pregnant in my second year of residence there.
I gave birth to my only daughter when I was 38 years 7 months old.
Parenting while struggling with menopause
My 40s were shaped by parenting a child.
Parenting and entering menopause started at the same time.
The climacteric lasts for about 5 years before and after menopause. Generally it is stated that it is between age 45 to age 50, however it seemed to gradually start right after giving birth in my case, as I recall.
I think I was hard on my daughter with things that I shouldn’t have been so hard on.
The atmosphere of home wasn’t great, I was often arguing with my husband as well.
When my daughter entered junior high school and became a teenager, my climacteric symptoms reached their peak.
Those days were like feeling very lethargic from the time I woke up, couldn’t feel any energy and even couldn’t do much house work.
My frustration that nobody understood my unwellness increased, so high that I couldn’t control my irritation.
There is no way that a teenage daughter would be obedient to their mother in that condition.
A mother with unstable hormone balance and a daughter who is also unstable in early adolescence, we argued everyday whenever seeing each other.
My daughter reviled me badly, and I used abusive words that I shouldn’t have used.
Surely my husband couldn’t feel at ease at home, our relationship got even worse, and my daughter completely shut me out. We were moments away from a family breakdown.
I was exhausted, both mentally and physically.
Of course, I went to see a gynecologist. But it was the time when climacteric symptoms were not considered as an issue that much.
Time just passed on while I couldn’t meet a doctor who suited me.
Then I happened to encounter Yakuzen.
Yakuzen can be done at home! Encountering “Easy Yakuzen”
The first Yakuzen seminar I attended made me see the light.
My initial thought of Yakuzen, that it was either Chinese medicine or hot pot, was reversed.
The first surprise was the difference from general nutrition study.
In general nutrition study, we have to calculate the balance of calories, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and others by referring to the food composition table.
I actually tried to make a menu for dieting by referring to the food composition before, but I couldn’t keep it going with the troublesome calculations.
On the other hand, Yakuzen had no troublesome calculations.
Because it is based on the idea that each ingredient has a unique effect other than just nutrition, it does not require difficult calculation.
It can be easily implemented just like “It’s been raining and I feel bloated, so I’ll use corn for dinner” or “I shall have barley tea” , and this simplicity was one of the reasons that I was so attracted to it.
Moreover, the reason I was attracted to it above all was the concept of “to be suited to each physical condition”.
There are people that for ingredients that warm people up suit, and people to who they don’t suit so much.
This fit-to-yourself dietary method can be easily introduced to everyday life.
It didn’t take time for me, someone who learned and conveyed to others how lighting could affect people, to really get into Yakuzen and learn about how diet makes up our bodily system.
Fascinated with Yakuzen, I learned Yakuzen and Chinese medicine from various instructors to deepen my study.
I practiced the things I learned at home, and my climacteric symptoms gradually got better.
Initially I started Yakuzen for my own unwellness, however later on I realized the frequency of my daughter complaining about PMS and also my husband complaining of not feeling well dramatically decreased.
Having the knowledge of choosing the right ingredients that fits to specific conditions can support entire the family’s health and support living everyday with smile.
It may be little exaggerated, but Yakuzen saved us from family breakdown.
From helping myself, to wanting to help others
Since I adopted my knowledge of Yakuzen to everyday meals, I hardly had days of not feeling good and moreover, my skin condition got better as well.
As I started recommending seasonal ingredients to friends and acquaintances, I started getting requests from people wanting to hear more.
So, I prepared and opened a Yakuzen course.
During question time after the seminar, I often hear many people who complain about their unwellness, but all of them say that they are watching what they eat...
I have noticed that many people are actually eating ingredients unmatched to their condition, from the Chinese Medical Study and Yakuzen point of view.
Although it may be generally stated as an ingredient good for health, it may not be necessary depending on the season and bodily condition. Most of all, everyone has unique requirements in regard to ingredients.
There may be a case where a different ingredient may be a good fit.
The internet and TV are overflowing with food and nutrition related information.
However without the proper knowledge, people may end up being swayed and in confusion, looking for truly effective ones and going every wrong way relying on the information regarding “healthy food”.
These people are simply healthy food information victims who have no idea of what to look for and just keep searching.
Long ago, I used to go to the supermarket and buy whatever is said to be good for something. And if it’s sold out, tried searching at different store.
Since I learned Yakuzen, I can now make a choice not to buy things if it is not needed for my condition.
On the contrary, I also can choose ingredients which are not featured on the internet or TV, if it’s what’s needed for me.
As a result, I have been able to live without feeling majorly unwell.
With less unwell days, we can focus on things we want to do or try.
Also, medical expenses can be put towards to something else.
I believe that more people can maintain their own health with everyday meals if more people learn that Yakuzen can be easily incorporated into the household.
I want to decrease the number of people who claim being unwell by wrong eating habits!
I want to reduce healthy food information victims to ZERO!
This is my origin in starting to work as a Yakuzen instructor.
This is my 9th year as a Yakuzen instructor.
The total number of students I have taught is now more than 1000, and I have been supporting women and people around them, so that they can be active with smiles through Yakuzen.
Please refer to my Japanese profile for credentials and back ground.
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