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'No heat' required cooking
Jennifer Joyner
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: Life & Style
A new instructional program that features three sessions of cooking classes will be taught in the HPER building this fall.
Participants will cook "no heat required" Asian cuisine, such as sushi, spring rolls and a Thai salad.
"We wanted to add to our offerings of programs that promote healthy living," said Tiffany Gaulke, who is in charge of instructional programs at the HPER. "And that not only includes recreation and physical fitness, but also healthy eating."
Instructor Susan Ang approached the program directors with the idea. The "no heat" theme was decided because the HPER does not allow ovens, Gaulke said.
The class will be full of nutrition tips, said Ang, who started the program in 2001 when she was a part-time registered nurse.
"When I would come to work out at the HPER, I would see only programs like aerobics classes and yoga. I didn't see anything about healthy cooking," Ang said.
"There are varieties in Asian cuisine," she said. "We do have food that is very high in saturated fats and, conversely, we also have food that is very healthy like fresh vegetarian spring rolls and Thai salad. Therefore, as an intelligent consumer we need to make a health choice by knowing the ingredients in the food that we eat and try different foods to add more varieties to our lives."
Ang stopped teaching the class when she began nursing full time and just recently started it up again, she said.
The first session will be September 16, and students will learn how to make sushi.
"The first 30 minutes of the class will be spent on learning techniques, like how to roll, cut and place ingredients," Ang said.
Each student will make at least two sushi rolls that will not contain raw fish, she said.
"Sushi does not mean raw fish at all," said Ang, whose new cookbook "The Truth About Sushi" will soon be released. In the book, Ang explains that sushi does not necessarily contain raw fish. The key ingredients are rice, vinegar and seaweed, she said.
The class will use cooked imitation crabmeat to prepare vegetarian and California rolls, she said.
Additionally, the class will also learn how to make vegetable spring rolls on October 14 and will prepare a Thai salad for the last class on November 11.
Students will be able to sign up until the day before each class begins at the Intramural Sports Office in the HPER. Each session cost $5.
The cooking lessons program is one of several instructional programs that will be offered in the HPER this fall. A list is available on the Intramural Recreational Sports Web site.
Participants will cook "no heat required" Asian cuisine, such as sushi, spring rolls and a Thai salad.
"We wanted to add to our offerings of programs that promote healthy living," said Tiffany Gaulke, who is in charge of instructional programs at the HPER. "And that not only includes recreation and physical fitness, but also healthy eating."
Instructor Susan Ang approached the program directors with the idea. The "no heat" theme was decided because the HPER does not allow ovens, Gaulke said.
The class will be full of nutrition tips, said Ang, who started the program in 2001 when she was a part-time registered nurse.
"When I would come to work out at the HPER, I would see only programs like aerobics classes and yoga. I didn't see anything about healthy cooking," Ang said.
"There are varieties in Asian cuisine," she said. "We do have food that is very high in saturated fats and, conversely, we also have food that is very healthy like fresh vegetarian spring rolls and Thai salad. Therefore, as an intelligent consumer we need to make a health choice by knowing the ingredients in the food that we eat and try different foods to add more varieties to our lives."
Ang stopped teaching the class when she began nursing full time and just recently started it up again, she said.
The first session will be September 16, and students will learn how to make sushi.
"The first 30 minutes of the class will be spent on learning techniques, like how to roll, cut and place ingredients," Ang said.
Each student will make at least two sushi rolls that will not contain raw fish, she said.
"Sushi does not mean raw fish at all," said Ang, whose new cookbook "The Truth About Sushi" will soon be released. In the book, Ang explains that sushi does not necessarily contain raw fish. The key ingredients are rice, vinegar and seaweed, she said.
The class will use cooked imitation crabmeat to prepare vegetarian and California rolls, she said.
Additionally, the class will also learn how to make vegetable spring rolls on October 14 and will prepare a Thai salad for the last class on November 11.
Students will be able to sign up until the day before each class begins at the Intramural Sports Office in the HPER. Each session cost $5.
The cooking lessons program is one of several instructional programs that will be offered in the HPER this fall. A list is available on the Intramural Recreational Sports Web site.
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