Where You Smile, and Then You Nod.

[azurelunatic]

I tried my hand at making sushi tonight. I looked up a recipe for the proportions of stuff, then while everyone else was out of the kitchen, I began humming happily to myself and putting sushi together. I stopped when I ran out of rice.

Then, I called votania into the kitchen in the break between episodes of Invader Zim.

"So, you think we have enough sushi?" I asked, pointing her towards the refrigerator, where the sushi was chilling, waiting upon being cut.

She looked. She smiled. She nodded.


I think we have at least seven logs in there. At least. I think we'll be cutting those into seven or eight pieces each...

That's a lot of sushi, if you're considering that there are two people in the household who eat it.

Well, three, if you count eris_raven.

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[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm...sushi.

What kinds did you make?

[azurelunatic]

Rice and stuff inside seaweed. The stuff included salmon (cooked), avacado, cream cheese, and cucumber.

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[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. :)

[azurelunatic]

Yeah.

[shawnj.livejournal.com]

Like an Alaska Roll. Very cool. :)

[azurelunatic]

There is such a thing as an Alaska roll?

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[shawnj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, usually Salmon, Cucumber, and Cream Cheese. The local place near me makes them. They're not too bad, if you like salmon

[azurelunatic]

Mmmmm.

I probably made a few of those in my mixings of ingredients last night.

Alaska's home, you see.

[azurelunatic]

Our salmon, in this case, was cooked.

*snicker* Obligatory Fan Question: Hm... I wonder what samlon sushi would taste like...

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[shawnj.livejournal.com]

Raw Salmon is not that great actually. It's got this kind of slimy texture to it, and is surprisingly bland. It's really good with spicy mayonnaise (mayo + togarashi) sauce in a Spicy Salmon roll, or with Avacado, but the Nigiri form is not very appetizing. Usually, I stick to Tuna, Crab, and Octopus, since they are generally cheaper and have a better flavor to them.

Probably the best use of salmon that I saw was at a local place in a dish they called a Volcano Roll. It was essentially a Salmon, Avacado, and Spicy Mayo roll with another roll wrapped around it, in the shape of a beaker. At the top they put down a layer of Tuna with a haping amount of that spicy mayo. It was to die for ;)

[azurelunatic]

Ooooh, interesting.

Now the Temple must investigate different forms of sushi...

[azurelunatic]

Crap, is it Niven? Can't remember offhand. But no, not a typo.

[elance.livejournal.com]

You'll just have to invite minakochan over. :)

Mmmmmm, sushi. *mouth waters*

[azurelunatic]

And it's actually relatively easy to make, too, once I got the hang of rolling it.

*snicker*

Makes me think that I should have had one of my ex-druggie friends roll the sushi.

[retch.livejournal.com]

mmmmm yum, sushi. Making rolls is fun. :) Nigiri is a little more of a pain, but good too. We usually just do sashimi though. Mmmmm.

[azurelunatic]

...raw fish...

*is squicked*

[retch.livejournal.com]

??? you're the one who was making sushi yesterday!!!

[azurelunatic]

Cooked fish sushi.

[retch.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwww!

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Sushi, as tesselene has told me, is simply the marriage of white rice and rice wine vinegar. Sashimi is not necessarily involved.

[azurelunatic]

Mmmm, vinegar. Mmmm...

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Yes. Sadly, hlynna doesn't like vinegar in any form.

[azurelunatic]

votania isn't fond of it in most forms, but sushi's an exception.

[retch.livejournal.com]

sure, but her posts had mentioned salmon. She hadn't said she'd cooked it!

[azurelunatic]

Cooked salmon is good. :-P

[retch.livejournal.com]

Cooked salmon is fairly yummy (though I prefer raw or smoked (mmmm on Irish brown bread with capers and a spritz of lemon!)), just not as sushi! :)

[azurelunatic]

Mmmm. Sounds good.

I'm not into raw fish, at least not until I know how to do it right, and see if I like it done professionally first.

[retch.livejournal.com]

I love raw fish, though I'm pretty pedestrian in my favorite fishies: toro (fatty tuna belly, so good), maguro (tuna), hamachi (yellow tail), and sake (fresh salmon). mmmmm.

Wednesday looks like Korean BBQ for lunch, but tomorrow is wide open. I sense the possiblity of impending sushi.

[azurelunatic]

I will eventually try some, someday.

[retch.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, and indeed, I ended up at Masa's having sushi for lunch. Yum. :)

It is totally worth trying. Though maybe a little closer to water... :)

[azurelunatic]

Heh. Yeah. Arizona is too landlocked for our taste.

[azurelunatic]

I tried some at the one place on 35th and Olive, which has it on the buffet. Mmmm tasty. Very smooth and subtle.