Holly Davis – Make Tofu and Miso From Scratch

Learn to make fresh, wholesome, homemade tofu and or fermented miso, from scratch

There is nothing quite as satisfying, as making your own fresh tofu and fermenting your own miso, from scratch, at home. Both are surprisingly easy to make. Fresh tofu, has the most fantastic texture and flavour and oh so many uses. It is nothing, like store bought. Miso is traditionally made in Autumn and early Winter and then, left to ferment through Summer. It is then ready to use the following Autumn. The beauty though, is that, once your miso is ready, it can easily be kept for another year or more. Once you know how, you could make what you need, year to year.

All the recipes provided are free from dairy, gluten and refined sugar.
Tofu is a fresh soy product which, is best eaten, either fermented or accompanied by a ferment, such as miso. Tofu and Miso are delicious, nutritious companions to one another, a great reason to learn to make both.

I am a wholefood * chef, author and educator, with a lifelong interest in fermentation. I have been fascinated with Japan, its customs, arts, crafts, people, nature, traditional foods and ferments since I was just ten.
I became enamoured with macrobiotics and the concept of ‘food as medicine’ engendered by it, when I was fourteen. When applied to eating, macrobiotics is a means for, understanding the energetic properties of foods and what is appropriate, for your immediate circumstances.

I spent my 23rd year in Tokyo, working, and studying macrobiotics; revelling in all that was unknown to me. After coming to Australia, Willem Venter(1958-1991) and I co-founded Sydney’s, Iku Wholefoods Kitchen in 1985. I sold in 1997. We founded Iku, based on our shared love of Japan and macrobiotic principles. We pioneered hand made, organic wholefoods. If you ate there, you will likely recognise some of the dishes I teach. In these courses, I aim to pass on some of my understanding and skill, so that you may enjoy a little of what these delightful foods can offer, you and your table.