I love Sushi… I really do..
The first time I had it I was about 6 and we were living in Nelson, BC and we were invited to a Sushi party… I remember loving it then but it wasn’t at all popular then so I didn’t have it for many more years…
I had it a few more times over the years… but then I was pregnant with Xavier a little Sushi shop opened near our apartment and I couldn’t get enough…. That place was good and it wasn’t expenesive and I would go at least once a week… it was the perfect pregnancy food and was the first thing I ate when I came back from the birthing center…
When Xavier was a baby and we were not going out as much and the place near us closed I started to make it at home…
Over the years my rolls have looked better and better… and for a while I was making it every week… now I am not making it as often because it does take a bit of time but I make as often as I can and I also make more of an assortment instead of making the same rolls all the time…
For the rice I found the perfect recipe is this…
Make enough rice for what you need (calrose rice using about 1/2 cup rice per large roll) and while the rice is cooking mix together
(per cup of rice)
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp sugar
- a bit less then 1 tsp salt
(so for 3 cups of rice…. use 3 tbsp vinegar etc)
bring to the vinegar mixture to a simmer (until the salt and sugar dissolve) and then let cool… when the rice is ready pour the mixture over it and let it cool… it is also best to use all wood instruments… or at least not metal…
then have fun and make sushi… there are plenty of site now that show you how to roll…
Here is some of tonights assortment… (there are more that I made for the boys that are not shown here…)
top row…
Spicy scallop ship roll , kamikaze roll (salmon, tempura, spicy mayo, avocado, carrot and cucumber), spicy shrimp ship roll
bottom…
Spicy shrimp, avocado, kamikaze, avocado, salmon
what a treat… and way cheaper that the restaurant… plus we have leftovers!
You got me hooked on making Sushi as often as I did last summer. I love it!! Makes me think it’s high time to eat sushi again but I’ll have to post about my vegetarian seaweedless versions.
Come back and we’ll eat sushi at that amazing place in New West again. I still think about how yummy and affordable food that was.
Yummmmm… We make sushi at home too. How do you do your tempura?
I buy tempura flour at the local fish market… then just mix with water and fry in hot oil… you can also dip veggies or seafood in the tempura and fry them up also… I love the crunchiness and taste it gives the sushi…
That’s what I was doing as well until I realized that tempura flour contains some weird stuff like burnt alum… I don’t know if there is an alternative to ready-to-use mixes? Organic puffed rice, maybe? 😉
They one I use is made of flour and cornstarch… it is not the one in the box (which I agree has many additives) but a mix that the fish mart near me makes in bulk for their own Sushi and other things they make in store…
you could probably find a recipe online for the quanties… or find something simular…