New Japanese Cooking Class at Haller Lake Community Club!

Let’s have fun together while learning how to make Japanese traditional finger food, onigiri!

What you’ll learn in the class:

• How to cook rice right for making rice balls
• Select easy and delicious filling (broiled salmon, tuna salad, pickled plums, cheese, bonito, etc) – you can make it vegan too!
• Form triangle rice balls three ways
• Finish up with cool wrapping methods that you can show off to your friends! Check out this video for the use of a plastic wrapper. We will provide the wrappers in the class!
  
• Kanako has extensive teaching experiences at PCC and other locations over ten years, providing private and event cooking classes, and publishing Japanese homecooking recipes on various publications including North American Post. Come join us and make onigiri like a pro! Just in time for a spring picnic!

Date: April 16 (Sun), 2023
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Place: Haller Lake Community Club Kitchen
Fee: $70
Please reserve your seats by making a payment to Venmo (@Kanako-Koizumi) or contacting us at info@kozmokitchen.com.

Or for an easy sign-up, go to https://shop.kozmokitchen.com/collections/upcoming-meals-1/products/cooking-class-lets-make-onigiri

Location: 12579 Densmore Avenue North, Seattle, WA

What an amazing summer month we had! The August bento popup and catering events were full of excitement, happy energy and new connections with so many wonderful customers.

With the finish of the hectic month, I am off to Japan again to see my family, celebrate my father’s 90th birthday and do some culinary research! So Kozmo Kitchen is closed in the month of September.

Please stay tuned for updates on when we will back with Kozmo’s virtual storefront. My dream is still to find a more permanent way to make people happy through Japanese Home Cooking. The environment is very challenging, but I will be exploring possibilities. I appreciate your patience and support.

As for private cooking classes, catering and personal chef services, we will be open again in October when I return. So, please send your inquiries to info@kozmokitchen.com.

Thank you very much for your love and support always. We’ll see you again!

After going through the two-week quarantine period and having much-needed family time and taking a time-off for myself for one and a half month in Japan, I am back in Seattle!

Thank you for all the interests on catering and food delivery services received while I was away. Unfortunately Kozmo Kitchen is still closed and it will remain closed for catering services until further notice. However, we will be open one week for bento/meal offerings in March from March 11th (Thu) through March 13th (Sun). Confirmation will be announced shortly. Currently there’s no plan for April and later at this point. Stay tuned!

I am so very grateful for having been able to connect with many of you with my homecooking style bentos and meals before and during the pandemic. All your warm, happy comments and encouragement were the fuel for me to keep running in the last couple of years.

With the new year started (a few months have passed already!), I’ve decided to make some changes for Kozmo Kitchen. I’d like to try something new, which might require frequent out-of-state travels. I also need to take care of my health and spend more time for research to grow and expand my knowledge on health, nuturition and wellbeing that food can contribute and nurture. I look forward to sharing more soon!

We are grateful that we have served quite a few events at the Seattle Japanese Garden in the past. And this contribution is definitely the largest in scale and one of the most memorable for everyone in the Kozmo Kitchen team.

Seattle Japanese Garden hosted their 60th Anniversary party on August 12th. In human age, 60th birthday is called Kanreki, a significant milestone in many Asian cultures including Japan. It’s known that the birthday person is dressed in red in the celebration.

To honor the red color, the bento used a red elastic band with very intricate decorative ornament called Mizuhiki, made by the Garden volunteers. To match the special presentation, we decided to make Shokado Style bento. The challenge there was, we were supposed to make 200 of them! Well, we did it, thanks to all the amazing people who helped us.

We are so glad we successfully delivered 200 shokado bentos to the garden in time. And thank you again for everyone involved to make it happen!