Sushi

[adiaphane]

Hmm... my friends here actually got to eat what was called "essence of baby seal," which call me crazy, is a little gross to me since seals look too much like my kitty.

I used to love unagi, until I got a long (a little over an inch), thin bone lodges in my throat. It hurt for the entire next day and hurt even worse when I got onto the six hour flight to new york. I finally got it out at some point on the flight. I'm not kidding or exagerrating.

 

[PHRAG]

Ha ha ha, seal. That's enough to make a PETA member cry.

The only sushi I don't like are the huge rolls with everything on them, like Dragon rolls and Rainbow rolls. There is just too much going on there flavor wise.

 

[PHRAG]

Wow Tien, that must have been scary and annoying.

I very rarely get a piece of Unagi that has been trimmed wrong and still has a little of the prickly flesh on it. While it doesn't hurt to eat, it is unsettling. Usually that is at a sushi bar that I have no business eating at anyway. Like a grocery store version. Sometimes you just need it.

I will probably start out avoiding Unagi for my home sushi exploits. Unless I can find a pre-cooked package of it at the Japanese grocery.

By the way, I live not one mile from two really awesome grocery stores. One is a Japanese market, and the other is a Chinese grocery inside a mini Chinatown. One mile the other way is open desert with saguaro and mountains, and one mile another way is the airport and the ASU campus. I don't know why you all care, I just find the diversity of my surroundings surreal.

 

[Jmoney]

yeah if they don't broil the eel fully there might be bones left in. same with any piece of fish I suppose.

speaking of PETA, it's always been a fantasy of mine to play "whack the PETA member" a la whack a mole at the carnival. what a bunch of nutjobs (and that's coming from a PAPH grower).

 

[Marco]

I haven't had sushi in several months. Everytime there's a new post on this thread. I get semi-subliminal messages about going to get sushi and my mouth starts to water.

My favorite has definately got to be salmon, eel and squid (not the octopus) mmmmmm

 

[Heather]

speaking of PETA

People Eating Tasty Animals?
(I always found that amusing)

Actually though, I was veg. for several years in college. Still very much against fur and animal testing but I love eating meat. I also worked in 4th grade to raise money for Greenpeace to save the Harp seals. I don't recall how much I raised but it was a fair amount and got us some nice buttons and pamplets and stuff due to my campaign. I was always kind of proud of that. Hence, when offered "seal" at a restaurant, of course I had to turn that down.

When I lived in New Mexico, I was cleaning out a file cabinet where I worked and came across this bumper sticker that said "Eat more lamb, 10,000 coyotes can't be wrong!"
Which I thought was hilarious, and I really dig lamb, so I put it on my car. People at Phish shows used to really curse me out....

 

[PHRAG]

Here are my first two plates of sushi...

Pictured are small crab roll w/wasabi, shrimp nigiri, smoked salmon and cream cheese roll

shrimp nigiri, salmon nigiri, california roll


I had problems on my first plate getting the rolls centered. The second plate looks better, but tastes just as good as the first plate.

I guess I will keep practicing, and eating my mistakes.

:drool:

 

[Heather]

It's beautiful!
(or, it was...)

 

[PHRAG]

So...full...hard...to...type.

 

[PHRAG]

One observation: Sticky rice is very sticky. I think I have some in my hair.

 

[kentuckiense]

One time my ladyfriend and I bought sushi. She noticed the little pile of wasabi in the corner and immediately said "Oh awesome, guacamole!" and ate a big chunk of it.

I laughed so, so much. I still think she's mad about it.

 

[bench72]

Funny, but.... oh I feel bad for laughing... hmm... still funny... :noangel:

those sushi and nigiri looks yummy!!! :drool:

I'm craving sushi for breakfast... is that normal??? :sob:

 

[Heather]

I'm craving sushi for breakfast... is that normal??? :sob:

I think so! I had Indian leftovers for breaky today.
and now I am craving sushi, of course...

 

[couscous74]

Well done, John :clap:

 

[Jmoney]

nicely done!

snapped a pic back when I started making these @#^@ inside-out rolls, gotta have that glass of sake (unfiltered in this case). later on got a "boat" for cheap, and caught an american eel...(yes I put avocado in everything).

 

[adiaphane]

Wow, when you guys want to do something, you really do it.

Jason, I like your taste in avocados. It looks perfect: firm, yet soft, but not mushy. That's the state I love them in best.

 

[Heather]

Sounds like Tien is another avocado freak.
I never ever buy ripe ones, because, no matter what, they always suck. You have to let them ripen at home or else everyone's grubby paws will have bruised them and I refuse to pay for a bruised fruit.

I am the same way with peaches (and nectarines). Consequently, I don't eat many of them.

 

[Jmoney]

the ripest I'll ever buy them is still slightly firm, at least a day or two away from using. still, occasionally you get tricked and get a total dud. after I started using avocados, sushi just doesn't seem complete without a slice.

 

[PHRAG]

When I lived in Albuquerque, the local flavor was to put guacamole on hamburgers. At first I wasn't interested. Then I tried one, and now I can't think of eating a hamburger without some. I go to subway alot too, and they have added avacado to their vegetable selections. So I get a big heaping spoonful of avacado on my sandwich instead of mayo. If they ever get rid of avacado at subway, I will probably start bringing my own.

That is the curse of avacado, once you start putting it on food, you can't live without it on that food.

 

[adiaphane]

You should try thhe Southeast Asian delicacy known as... avocado milkshake. Yum! I grew up eating avocados as a dessert, soemthing sweet, and when someone tried to give me guacamole, I stuck my tongue out. Now, I like all kinds of ways, except, I still don't care much for guacamole (too mushy!)