Finance, decadence

[azurelunatic]

It feels so sinfully luxurious to have an approximate 64 completed bits of sushi either in the refrigerator, or already consumed, for far less than from a store.

Item	Price
50 lb bag of rice from Sam's	~$4.00
10 sheets nori	$2.50
4 large avacadoes	$3.30
1 cucumber	$1.00
Large salmon steak	$3.77
Cream cheese	$2.50
small bottle Kikkoman soy sauce	$1.00
1 gallon White vinegar	$2.00
Brown sugar	$2.00
Totals
More sushi than you should shake a chopstick at, with leftover ingredients for next time	~$22.07

Sushi rocks my world.

Comments

[childofchaos.livejournal.com]

Yummy!!! Do you have a recipe for it? And did you buy everything at Sam's club?

[azurelunatic]

I looked up a random recipe online, for the proportions of vinegar/sugar/salt in the stuff to put on the rice, and the proportion of rice dressing to rice.

I got the rice, the avacadoes, and probably the vinegar at Sam's. Not sure about some of the rest. I know I didn't get all of it there, but it would be theoretically possible to, except for the seaweed, which I don't think they stock, though it would probably be slightly more expensive to collect all ingredients, and result in a LOT more sushi.

[childofchaos.livejournal.com]

Must... make... sushi...

I've been wanting sushi all semester...

[azurelunatic]

's goooood.

Next time, we make it with shrimp.

Yummmmm!

[kittydragon.livejournal.com]

I've got to try that. Mostly I just go cheap and buy only one or two fillings for my sushi. A nice plain cream cheese roll can be refreshing. Yay for sushi!

Re: Yummmmm!

[azurelunatic]

Sushi is very, very good.

I may make some more tonight, or this afternoon.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

Do you actually make raw fish sushi or California rolls (cooked salmon, avacado, cream cheese)?

Did you know that Kikkoman soy sauce is what most Asians prefer? It is THE soy sauce of choice. :-)

[azurelunatic]

Cooked.

I don't want to do things with raw fish unless I know it's good raw fish, and I want a professional to do it for me first in any case.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

My mom actually toasts the nori (called "keem" in Korean) over the open gas flame and lightly salts it. You then eat that with plain white rice and some hot sauce (Korean style, not tabasco). A couple simple flavors that makes a really yummy appetizer.

If you ever make it back to Alaska, I'll take you to my Mom's house for some authentic Korean food. As much as you adore garlic and ginger... you would love my mother's cooking. She is from the southern-most part of South Korea... her food is like the "soul food" of Korean cuisine. :-)

[azurelunatic]

Mmmm.

If she ever was in Fairbanks and worked around UAF, she likely knows my father.

[azurelunatic]

It's what my father used, it's what his friends used, and it's the only one that tastes right to me. Votania and I went to a Japanese market on the corner by Marx's school, and I pointed out to her that there were a lot of bottles of that (by the logo, as I can't read Japanese except for perhaps a few characters shared with Chinese, and I can't read much Chinese either except for those characters).

So, not surprising to me.