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Post by Ham on Oct 2, 2019 11:38:39 GMT 9
I'm finally starting to get the ball rolling on doing cooking classes in my town. Typing out a KIKAKUSYO to present to my boss. Out of curiosity, about how big are your cooking classes, o senpais of the LYOLIKYOSITU? miscreative thelatter 🍅™️ Dee wapiko
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Post by wapiko on Oct 2, 2019 12:43:48 GMT 9
We have a sign-up list with a max of 16 people but it ends up being about 12 in the end. One time we had about 9 and my boss said that was a good number, which surprised me. It did give us more time to answer questions during the cooking!
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Post by thelatter on Oct 2, 2019 13:06:51 GMT 9
I've had just over 20 a couple times. My next one is going to have a max of 30. No idea why, but they decided that it will be 30.
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Post by 🍅™️ on Oct 2, 2019 13:07:50 GMT 9
Hello, hello
I tried to cap mine at 20ppl, but we got more people wanting to do the class than that, so my partnering organization always let them in so I've had 28 participants before too. (that was a parent-child one though)
Ideally less than 20 is good imho
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Post by miscreative on Oct 2, 2019 13:11:57 GMT 9
we capped it at 20? a couple of times but because of the kitchen size and overall feasibility, 12-16 is golden tho 9 sounds pretty great too
the last time i had 20 was... i dont want to call it a shit show but its too many people to jump in and help when needed which leads to FUAM, FUMAN, and less good outcomes (tho i did do a multi step set of recipes so thats partially on me hue)
edit to add, we have them apply by OUFUKU HAGAKI and if we get too many applicants, we do a lottery to bring it down to our cap
i get to do the lottery for my next class on friday actually
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Post by Dee on Oct 2, 2019 13:43:07 GMT 9
I try to cap mine at around 10 participants, then when we add in the staff and everything it usually ends up around 15-20 people. I definitely would not want to do more than that.
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Post by michiru on Oct 3, 2019 9:24:03 GMT 9
What does everyone make?
I'm doing a baking class, but there's no oven, so I'm feeling extremely limited in what I can do. If I do it again (and I probably will), I'll probably have to make it a non-dessert cooking class. So, yeah, any good, simple recipes?
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Post by Aya Raincoat on Oct 3, 2019 9:35:58 GMT 9
What does everyone make? I'm doing a baking class, but there's no oven, so I'm feeling extremely limited in what I can do. If I do it again (and I probably will), I'll probably have to make it a non-dessert cooking class. So, yeah, any good, simple recipes? I don't do regular cooking classes, but I've been a guest teacher at a few, and I always make this food from home called pâté chinois. I chose this because it's cultural, everyone back home has probably had it and can make it, it's extremely easy, delicious, and ingredients are easy to find in Japan. Essentially, you have a layer of ground meat (usually beef) with onions, then a layer of corn and a layer of mashed potatoes, then you put ketchup on it and eat. The one downside I always find is that the classes always do the dishes before eating, so it ends up being cold... They sometimes ask me to have a second dish too, and so far I've made a ginger carrot-sweet potato soup, a vichyssoise, and this apple crumble recipe from back home. I have had access to ovens each time, though.
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Post by miscreative on Oct 3, 2019 9:48:04 GMT 9
What does everyone make? I'm doing a baking class, but there's no oven, so I'm feeling extremely limited in what I can do. If I do it again (and I probably will), I'll probably have to make it a non-dessert cooking class. So, yeah, any good, simple recipes? you can do desserts without an oven! including ~mug cakes/brownies/cookies/etc ~frypan cookies ~pancakes ~popcorn balls ~freezer cheesecake (requires a couple hours to freeze tho.. unless you make them into cupcakes?) ~french toast with apple compote ~chocolate shake but i have done ~club sandwiches ~blts ~tacos ~tomato soup and grilled cheese ~deviled eggs ~muffins (we have an oven) ~french toast with apple compote ~chocolate shake ~brownies ~nachos are next :> and for reference from what i can remember my KCIR has done ~takkalbi ~hotteok ~wakame and beef soup ~kimbap my thought process goes through what appliances i have, who my audience is, how long our session is going to be, and what is available at the local markets (i try to avoid special order things. KCIR gets away with it because korea is close and there is a mail order korean supermarket magazine they use to get the ingredients they need for not too expensive) anyways, hope this helps!
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Post by applecider on Oct 3, 2019 9:51:39 GMT 9
Is there a refrigerator with a freezer? A blender? You could do no-bake desserts and/or smoothies. One recipe that went over really well was chocolate tofu pudding pie (mix all ingredients and pour into a crust), people were super mindblown at the idea of using tofu for something sweet.
For other tools you might have, if you have a rice cooker available, there are recipes for rice cooker cakes. If you have a microwave, you could experiment with microwave cooking.
I have a big folder of recipes for my monthly cooking classes that I could pass along if you're interested too. (some are oven based though)
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Post by miscreative on Oct 3, 2019 9:56:36 GMT 9
monthly cooking classes?? IINA
could i see your folder of recipes? i have a collection of recipes that you all can access too! every month in my newsletter i post a recipe (some are from cooking classes, some arent) and my thought process is similar. i like to keep it simple and use ingredients i dont have to go out of my way to procure. the down side is you have to open each newsletter to see each recipe, they are not in a recipe anthology yet
i really do need to MATOMERU all of them into a nice notebook or something before i leave. Miscreative's own cookbook ~o~
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Post by Ham on Oct 3, 2019 10:54:48 GMT 9
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Post by michiru on Oct 3, 2019 11:57:49 GMT 9
Is there a refrigerator with a freezer? A blender? You could do no-bake desserts and/or smoothies. One recipe that went over really well was chocolate tofu pudding pie (mix all ingredients and pour into a crust), people were super mindblown at the idea of using tofu for something sweet. For other tools you might have, if you have a rice cooker available, there are recipes for rice cooker cakes. If you have a microwave, you could experiment with microwave cooking. I have a big folder of recipes for my monthly cooking classes that I could pass along if you're interested too. (some are oven based though) I would love to see your folder of recipes, if you don't mind! Even if some are oven-based, it would give me an idea of some things I could make.
I am doing no-bake this time, chocolate pie and rice crispies, but, especially for the rice crispies, I had trouble finding suitable ingredients in Japan. Was going to do 2 different no-bake pie things, but they, understandably, wanted a little variety, and rice crispies was all I could think of. They're going to end up being granola crispies instead, hue. Aya Raincoat miscreative Ham
Thank you for your suggestions! They sound really tasty. Like, I think I'll have to make a couple of those things just for myself.
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Post by miscreative on Oct 3, 2019 13:24:58 GMT 9
Is there a refrigerator with a freezer? A blender? You could do no-bake desserts and/or smoothies. One recipe that went over really well was chocolate tofu pudding pie (mix all ingredients and pour into a crust), people were super mindblown at the idea of using tofu for something sweet. For other tools you might have, if you have a rice cooker available, there are recipes for rice cooker cakes. If you have a microwave, you could experiment with microwave cooking. I have a big folder of recipes for my monthly cooking classes that I could pass along if you're interested too. (some are oven based though) I would love to see your folder of recipes, if you don't mind! Even if some are oven-based, it would give me an idea of some things I could make.
I am doing no-bake this time, chocolate pie and rice crispies, but, especially for the rice crispies, I had trouble finding suitable ingredients in Japan. Was going to do 2 different no-bake pie things, but they, understandably, wanted a little variety, and rice crispies was all I could think of. They're going to end up being granola crispies instead, hue. Aya Raincoat miscreative Ham
Thank you for your suggestions! They sound really tasty. Like, I think I'll have to make a couple of those things just for myself.
if you are doing rice crispies you can probably use these! they are apparently called こめはぜ and you can find them at 駄菓子屋 or supermarkets/100 yen stores that have a similar dagashiya section (ive seen them at daiso iirc) they are puffed rice with a light coating of sugar. marshmallows are relatively common too (i have found them at daiso and my itoyokado)
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Post by applecider on Oct 3, 2019 13:24:58 GMT 9
To everyone (two) who asked, I'll toss them in a google drive folder when I get home! (dumb work computer blocks gmail and stuff)
The cooking classes I do were established by an outside group (although it still counts as work) and the way it operates is sort of like a club and you have to be a member to attend, so the number of people is generally always the same and we don't have to worry about UKETSUKE or anything. We find recipes on our own, buy the ingredients on the day of, and get reimbursed by the Japanese people attendees. Foreigners get to eat for free though, so we're always trying to get the ALTs to come.
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Post by michiru on Oct 3, 2019 14:32:47 GMT 9
if you are doing rice crispies you can probably use these! they are apparently called こめはぜ and you can find them at 駄菓子屋 or supermarkets/100 yen stores that have a similar dagashiya section (ive seen them at daiso iirc) they are puffed rice with a light coating of sugar. marshmallows are relatively common too (i have found them at daiso and my itoyokado) Oh, yeah! I saw those at Daiso and was like, what the heck. what is that. Good to know it's actually useful! And I haven't had a problem finding marshmallows so much as finding the right kind of marshmallows. Luckily, I think it's going to be okay to get gelatin ones, but, not knowing that it would actually be important, we used collagen-made ones in a test-run and they turned out super brittle. Who knew there was that much marshmallow variety! Anyway, thanks for the help. I'll definitely check out the carrot cereal. (笑)
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Post by Dee on Oct 3, 2019 14:37:55 GMT 9
We usually make a whole meal at mine, here are some of the meals we've done:
Hamburgers and onion rings Flour tortilla tacos, Spanish rice and beans, churros Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, steamed veggies, cream gravy Spaghetti and meatballs, side salad, chocolate chip cookies Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, gingerbread cookies, eggnog
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Post by applecider on Oct 3, 2019 18:54:13 GMT 9
Woop woop as promised. Recipes ahoy, at least the ones I've had a hand in since I got here. Excuse any terribad Japanese, the quality depended on how much I cared at any given moment. +_+
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Post by michiru on Oct 4, 2019 9:06:47 GMT 9
applecider Thanks! I clicked the link and it said I "needed permission", so if you get a weird email from Google about an arwen.flyes person wanting to access your secret recipes, that's me.
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Post by applecider on Oct 4, 2019 12:42:02 GMT 9
Oops thanks for the heads-up, I changed the access to anyone with a link can view so should be fine now? Drop kick me (or call me Jeff) if not.
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Post by applecider on Feb 14, 2020 13:21:20 GMT 9
+Cooking class yesterday was so much fun! Since it was close to Valentine's we made the theme "chocolate", and every single recipe we made had either chocolate or cocoa powder in it (chocolate pasta, mole sauce, cocoa-rub salmon, chocolate balsamic sauce over vegetables, truffles)recipes pls Double post into next year but rezkei ask and you shall receive! Chocolate pasta (only made the pasta) Mole sauce (The Japanese participants said they didn't want it that spicy so I put in less than 1 Tbsp of the chili pepper when cooking and then dropped a ton on my own plate before we ate hue) Cocoa-rub salmonChocolate balsamic sauce over vegetables (we did it with carrots and sweet potatoes) Truffles (only used 2 cups sugar and that was plenty, made one half plain, one half with 4 Tbsp of peanut butter added and the peanut butter ones were so good)
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Post by rezkei on Feb 14, 2020 14:14:18 GMT 9
Double post into next year but rezkei ask and you shall receive! Chocolate pasta (only made the pasta) Mole sauce (The Japanese participants said they didn't want it that spicy so I put in less than 1 Tbsp of the chili pepper when cooking and then dropped a ton on my own plate before we ate hue) Cocoa-rub salmonChocolate balsamic sauce over vegetables (we did it with carrots and sweet potatoes) Truffles (only used 2 cups sugar and that was plenty, made one half plain, one half with 4 Tbsp of peanut butter added and the peanut butter ones were so good) aaahhhh the links are broken for me ;n;
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Post by 𝑜𝓇𝒾𝒽𝒾𝓂𝑒 on Feb 14, 2020 14:18:56 GMT 9
Ah, the links also only link back to this page for me ^^;;;
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Post by applecider on Feb 14, 2020 14:21:55 GMT 9
Fixed! They must've pasted weird when I used the link function because they were blank when I checked the BBCode.
hey remember when tomato made a poll asking everyone what she should do with her hair when she cuts it? that was so funny hue people didnt seem to see the hidden message
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2023 14:34:11 GMT 9
I see this thread hasn't been active for awhile, but gonna post here and shoot my shot hehe
My soup told me I may possibly get cooking classes approved (albeit a very low budget). My problem - My town doesn't have ovens in the community centers. I asked if I could please borrow one of the cooking rooms in the town's middle school that has 5 ovens, but soup said no.
soup also told me not to recommend food that Japanese people can already easily make at home (i.e. cheeseburgers). I wanted to make cornbread or biscuits and gravy, but cornbread would require an oven. And I think making biscuits from scratch would take too much time.
Has anyone done a cooking event that did not require ovens? I see some of you made sandwiches, which is a good idea, but my soup said no. I am open to making anything at this point but it sounds like I am working with breadcrumbs here (no pun intended).
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Post by Aya Raincoat on Apr 21, 2023 9:03:38 GMT 9
I've made soups and a food from my home country. There's a lot of food that don't require an oven. You still have access to burners though, right?
It's kind of weird to not be allowed to make things they can make at home already... what's the point if they can't make it again by themselves??
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2023 15:44:32 GMT 9
I've made soups and a food from my home country. There's a lot of food that don't require an oven. You still have access to burners though, right? It's kind of weird to not be allowed to make things they can make at home already... what's the point if they can't make it again by themselves?? Thankfully, I do still have access to burners! Those and microwaves are what I can use. XD The last question is the 8th wonder of the world, and frankly I have no idea lmao. But I like your soups idea! I thought about that, and as someone who loves my carbs, I think I found 3 easy pasta recipes to propose that won't require too many ingredients or too much prep time. I'll shoot my shots with those and see if they can get kessai'd. Thank you Aya!
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Post by Dee on Apr 22, 2023 7:14:59 GMT 9
I see this thread hasn't been active for awhile, but gonna post here and shoot my shot hehe
My soup told me I may possibly get cooking classes approved (albeit a very low budget). My problem - My town doesn't have ovens in the community centers. I asked if I could please borrow one of the cooking rooms in the town's middle school that has 5 ovens, but soup said no.
soup also told me not to recommend food that Japanese people can already easily make at home (i.e. cheeseburgers). I wanted to make cornbread or biscuits and gravy, but cornbread would require an oven. And I think making biscuits from scratch would take too much time.
Has anyone done a cooking event that did not require ovens? I see some of you made sandwiches, which is a good idea, but my soup said no. I am open to making anything at this point but it sounds like I am working with breadcrumbs here (no pun intended). You can totally do biscuits and gravy! I have a great recipe for buttery biscuits cooked in a frying pan and they are amazing. Most of my previous cooking classes did not use an oven. We wanted to make food that anyone could repeat at home with ingredients found at out local grocery store.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2023 15:21:27 GMT 9
Hello everyone again! Update - one cooking class idea involving sandwiches is moving along hue
However, I am sitting on the fence about one idea in particular I really want to introduce that I would like opinions on.
For a slightly unusual but delicious American breakfast cooking event, do you all think some Japanese people would love a Chicken and Waffles event? I loved this in the US, and I learned the school I can cook at has waffle makers, so this was sitting in the back of my mind for a while now. hue
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Post by Springjay on Sept 13, 2023 16:29:33 GMT 9
Hello everyone again! Update - one cooking class idea involving sandwiches is moving along hue However, I am sitting on the fence about one idea in particular I really want to introduce that I would like opinions on. For a slightly unusual but delicious American breakfast cooking event, do you all think some Japanese people would love a Chicken and Waffles event? I loved this in the US, and I learned the school I can cook at has waffle makers, so this was sitting in the back of my mind for a while now. hue yes! And I would love to see your Soup try and wiggle out of this, because that is just about as American as you can get with our cuisine
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