We went to a young woman, Emily's, home near downtown Santa Cruz. Not only did she offer to teach her Vegan cooking to Naomi....she also shared her REPTILE! "Dragon"
Sheon could touch it~not Naomi
Emily had a lovely place!
And her art work was awesome...
as was her cooking! Naomi showed how she made tofu burgers and オムライス. (rice omelets)
And together Emily baked a vegan upside down blueberry cake and green tea cookies.
Naomi needs to take back organic ingredients to her work place in Japan, we compared prices and bought organic ingredients from five or six different health food markets.
This was a butcher's at Whole Foods, around the corner from our home...
I loved how they helped us know what time the meat had been CUT! ("ground")
Naomi...with our friend Victor's little mutt, in San Fran~
Over in Berkely we got to visit with Naomi's father's old from Japan, friend Ko-kun! He's lived in the Bay area for at least 30 years. Before Ko was in the Mission District of San Fran baking Vegan Cookies, which were sold in supermarkets around S.F. Now in Berkeley Ko has a "new" kitchen~
Ko showed Naomi how he's making a new recipe, vegan waffles
with prunes soaked in water as leavening (could be other ingredients)
Then using a food processor...He whipped it all together and baked them.
Freshly done and hot they were really good!
Freshly done and hot they were really good!
The books Ko recommended were The Tassajara Bread Book and Uprisings
Out in Ko's backyard he has freinds who come by...
one came out to eat, but the others were too shy!
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