L.A. Cooking, Recipes, Dining (and French) Meetup Group
Newsletter Vol. 1
Meetup #6 Fact Sheet
Date: 2-23-08 Sat. 11qm
Place: Hayward’s house in
San Pedro
What::Professional
Okonomiyaki Demonstration
by
Otafuku Foods, Inc,
Photo by Christian at Bar Hayama
1803 Sawtelle Blvd 377 Van Ness Ave. #1208
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Torrance, CA 90501
(310) 235-2000 310-787-8000 phone
http://www.bar-hayama.com/
310-787-0900 fax
www.otafukufoods.com
www.otafuku.co.jp
Demonstrators:
Our First Newsletter! Mr. Taka Ozawa, Vice
President
Dear Members, more about them, my desire to tozawa@otafukufoods.com
communicate better and often in more Mr. Seito Kono, Assistant
How was you weekend? Sales Manager
casual ways grew stronger. I’ve never
I decided to create a newsletter for the created a newsletter before, so it’s not skono@otafuku.co.jp
group…Why? Because I wanted to going to be perfect, but hope you’ll
have a place to announce news, enjoy! Sally “Okonomiyaki is like
information, stories, and recipes (and Japanese pizza, sort
more..) for the members. As I meet new
members, I feel so lucky to be able to of everyday food”
connect with many different people of --Mr. Ozawa
all walks of life that I would have never
met without Meetup, and as I know
Okonomiyaki meetup –
a huge success!
The sponsored “Okonomiyaki” meetup Foods, Inc. and Mr. Kono, Assistant
on Saturday was a success thanks to Sales Manager did everything for
the sponsor, my friend Heyward who us…Bringing meat and vegetables
kindly offered his house and the and all kinds of sauce, Japanese
attendees who participated and tried mayo, katsuobushi (bonito flakes), and
to cook their first Okonomiyaki! The heavy duty hot plate that operates on
food was so good, actually much propane. The weather had been
better than I expected…I mean they crappy, and there was a storm forecast
are the real professionals, and the new in San Diego, but fortunately it was
creative ingredients like tuna, sunny during the day and we enjoyed
edamame, tofu, shiso, etc. on top of out door cooking in the large
traditional ingredients, backyard. It was funny that as we were
wrapping up the event (literally
Mr. Ozawa, Vice President of Otafuku
wrapping up the leftover food to take
home!)
Feedback From the Attendees
Here are the comments from the more fun to be had learning about
participants: different foods. I loved it!"
Ken: Rita:
"excellent.. learned something “Another great event organized by
new.. met some nice folks.. " Sally. The food demonstration was
very educational and fun to watch.
Judy:
Okonomiyaki were very tasty. Thank
"I greatly enjoyed the food, yum you Sally for organizing this. You are
yum!! and glad to learn how to really terrific!"
My blogger friend in Japan took this make Okonomiyaki!"
picture for me when he went with his wife
Naia:
to an Okonomiyaki restaurant in Tokyo!
Mr. James:
"Good meetup! Thanks to Sally, her
"It was fun. ^_^ Way too much friend who supplied the house and
(At “Kirishima” restaurant, 3-01-08, by okonomiyaki... I don't think I ever the gentlemen from Otafuku who
Shinsuke-san) eat that much okonomiyaki, ever. did the demonstration. I learned a
O.o" lot and it was great to try something
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Chef Melinda:
own without having it seen made.
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today. Love the idea of this whole
Jil:
meetup. I can see that there is a lot
“Great demonstration with great
demonstrators. It was fun and tasty."
Recipe
Okonomi Yaki Osaka Style
Ingredients
Serving: 3 Okonomi Yaki (6 inch size) 4. Flip the Okonomiyaki onceWhen you are working with linked
more, turning the pork side up.
1/2 of Cabbage Cook for about 3 minutes. text boxes, you should turn on the
1 Green Onion Text Box toolbar. To do this, on the
3 Eggs View
5. Now serve with Okonomi Saucemenu, point to Toolbars, and
3/4 cup of water then cooked through,
When the Okonomiyaki has been click Text Box. place it on
1 cup of Okonomi Flour the individual plate.
Otafuku Okonomi Sauce When you start writing your story, we
Serve with Okonomi Sauce. Add aonori (green seaweed),
Pork (Any Meat or Seafood, can be omitted) recommend that you do most of
katsuobushi (bonito flakes), and mayonnaise on top as desired.
your writing and editing before you
Directions copy the text into the empty linked
Tips:
1. Cut Vegetables. text boxes. To move among linked
1 Don’t press hard the Okonom yaki with a spatula while
Cut soft leaves of cabbage head into thin stripes. text boxes in a story, select a text
cooking.
Chop green onion into smaller pieces. 2 Don’t over-mix the batter. box that is part of a story. On the
To Make Batter: 3 Use lots of cabbage. Text Box toolbar, click Next Text Box
Add Okonomiyaki Flour and water into a bowl and or Previous Text Box.
mix until the flour is dissolved.
Mix with other ingredients To copy or move linked text boxes,
Add shredded cabbage, green onion and eggs into select the first text box in the story.
the flour mixture, then lightly mix all ingredients Hold down SHIFT and select each
together (but don’t over mix) additional text box you want to
copy or move. On the Edit menu,
2. Spread the batter into 6 inches circle evenly on click Copy or Cut. Click where you
the skillet, top with the sliced pork. want to copy or move the text
Cook for 3 minutes (or until the bottom side turns to boxes. On the Edit menu, click
golden brown) Paste. Enjoy!
You can also break a link between
3. Flip the Okonomiyaki (the batter with sliced pork),
turning the pork side down. Cook for another 4 any two linked text boxes in a story.
minutes. To do this, select the text box. On
the Text Box toolbar, click Break
Forward Link.
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Flip the Okonomiyaki once more ,turning the pork
side up. Cooking for about 3 minutes.
A special message from the organizer
L.A. Cooking, Recipes,
Dining (and French)
Meetup Group Hi, I’m Sally, the organizer of the group.
Wanted: Photos
Los Angeles, CA 90025 I created this newsletter to express my
taken at meetups
Organizer: sincere gratitude for all your help and
support, and especially for the staff of
Sally Otafuku Foods, Inc. who generously
If you have any
Assistant Organizer: donated their time and food and made pictures and videos
a wonderful demonstration of
Mr. James Okonomiyaki. Thank you so much and I
taken at our
really appreciate your sponsorship. meetups, please
Members, please feel free to contact me send them to me so
anytime if you need any questions or
suggestions and together we can create
that I can post here.
more fun events! Merci Beaucoup!
More to come!
E-Mail: For our future meetups, please go to the cooking when you’re busy..
lacooking@gmail.com Calendar section of our website.
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