Sushi Dinner

After practising how to make sushi with 知帆先生 in spring, some revision on the phone yesterday and a trip to the fish guy at the market this morning, I finally made sushi myself tonight. In fact I didn't do it all on my own but my friends who joined me for the meal helped a lot.

While our efforts may be sneered at by connoisseurs for lack of sophistication, things actually tasted nice and were fun to make.

Preparation & Ingredients

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  Ingredients, first stage: rice cooling, spring onions, egg, fresh fish, fish sticks.
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  Japanese omelette as egg filling. It's quite simple but I really like this one. The left one was the first attempt, too thick and rather deformed. The right one turned out quite well with lots of thin layers.
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  Frying tofu using a recipe 知帆 sent me a while ago. I think I'm not doing too badly on those by now. Once these are seasoned the square ones will be little snacks – hors d'œuvres if you wish – while the long sticks will be put into sushi rolls. I was told anything may be tried as a filling...
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  Ingredients, second stage: fried tofu, rice, fish sticks, fresh fish (salmon, tuna and a third fish whose name I forgot), fried shiitake mushrooms, egg, avocado, spring onion.

Rolling

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  Rolling and slicing the sushi rolls.
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  More rolling.
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  A finished sushi roll.
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  Cut sushi piece presented on knife.
  Nice shirt, by the way.

Let's tuck in

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  The table is set: Four large plates of sushi.
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  Plate #1: Avocado and fried tofu, egg and spring onion and salmon sushi.
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  Plate #2: Salmon, tuna and unnamed fish sushi. Some of them are spicy with extra wasabi in them.
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  Plate #3: Tuna and spring onion, fish stick, unnamed fish and fried shiitake with lamb's lettuce sushi.
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  Plate #4: More of the same...

Joy!

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  Sushi closeup. Perhaps a nice desktop background?
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  Who's in and who's out?
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  知帆先生 says: Fantastic!
  I hope so at least.

Although I've been told that you don't have miso soup with sushi, we had miso soup as a starter. It's about the only one I can make. I like it and I still have a huge bag of miso in the fridge. We didn't manage to finish all of the sushi. It looked not too much at the beginning but everybody was pretty stuffed even before having apple crumble with ice cream for dessert.

For everything we used a whole bag of rice – which may explain why everybody was so stuffed. The veggie sushi were very popular – even with the non vegetarians. The off-the-cuff experimental fried shiitake mushroom ones turned out to be rather nice as did the standard egg ones. People didn't put too much trust into the fish stick, though. Not a big surprise considering the alternatives.