a big guy in a big city

Posted by Bone at September 22nd, 2005

No, not another Amsterdam post, this time I’m actually talking about food. In particular the first time I ever tried to make sushi. A little story after the jump. *Check out the macro mode on the camera, awesome, yes?*

I was always under the impression that sushi would be really hard to make, since it comes from the country that builds trumpet playing robots (no fooling) and because it seems so small and fiddly. To my surprise we actually managed to create something that not only tasted good, it looked pretty good as well.

Our rice came out a bit stodgier than I’d hoped for, I think it was my fault, it was either boiled too quickly, or I got scared as the water got absorbed into the granules and added too much water to compensate.

Even though we’re Northern boys we have no problem eating raw fish, we’d both eaten much weirder stuff in a New York Japanese restaurant. We kept it pretty simple, organic salmon, tuna steak, and some black tiger prawns.

Wrapping the sushi was my biggest fear, but since we had the rolling mats from a previous Barrow decorating adventure it was actually a very simple process of just laying out the ingredients as insturcted on the Nori packet.

Basically what I’m trying to say in this rather hap-hazard article is that there is no need to fear sushi, if you’re careful raw fish isn’t a danger to you, it isn’t even that hard to make, and you’ll have fun learning a new skill and will have opened yourself up to a whole range of new, impressive and exciting recipes.