Operation Homemade Sushi

The best kinds of adventures are the impulsive ones.

The family decided to make sushi yesterday, which was exciting for a couple of reasons. One, sushi is delicious (obviously). The second reason was the fact that we would get to go to an Asian mart. If you have never been to one of these magical stores, I highly suggest it.

Rice hats!

Strange and colorful desserts!

Ordinary things in foreign languages!

This particular one (cleverly named...Asia Mart) isn't quite as fantastic as the 24-hr Korean Mart in Los Angeles, but it did have Durian fruit and balut. Seriously, walking into an asian mart is like walking into another country. 

Once we lugged our treasure back home, we realized we had gotten a little carried away. It might have been the squid jerky or matching rice hats for Dom and Lily (they are now Sushi hats). 

The sushi hat is serious business. 

So the trick to sushi is the perfect sushi rice. Sushi rice is short-medium grain rice with a su (sauce or vinegar) folded in. The recipe we used was this:

4 cups rice (rinsed, then cooked in a rice cooker)

1 cup rice wine vinegar

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup sake (we used unfiltered)

The result should be rice that is shiny, with a sweet/tangy taste and not mushy. Ours turned out really well, but I might use less of the su next time. 

I think Operation Homemade Sushi was a success. We definitely appreciate the art of sushi-making more and will probably be more picky about how fresh our fish is. 

Also, we realized that three pounds of fish is definitely too much for only four people. 

Nigiri, Temaki, Uramaki, and Poke

Sushi is the most attractive of foods~