Do you make sushi?

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I'm making some today, have all the ingredients at last. I tried it a few years ago, but didn't have the right ingredients/recipe back then. I'm escited. I'm addicted to sushi!

I also love watching all the sushi preparation videos on the web. They're so colorful and interesting!

I may try making sushi at some pont in the future

I'd like to learn to make sushi come to think of it but it sounds like the ingredients would be expensive. Over here seafood cost so much because I don't live on the coast.

Yes I've made sushi, not for a while though, it is very yummy and cheap to make.

I tried it once, it turned out really well! I keep meaning to give it another try but I keep snacking on the nori...

MissConstrue, you can put anything in sushi - I put only salmon and veggies, which I love and happens to be not so expensive around here. Some people even use beef instead of fish... Many use just canned tuna.

Haha. Yeah that nori is addictive I think. I have not made sushi personally, but I will gladly eat any my brother has made. I gotta make some of my own soon.

I can make some Japanese dishes, though not sushi! But I do love to eat it!

I've eaten it before, but never made it.

Sushi by definition is just the rice mixed with the
vinegar and sugar combo. As long as you have
that it's sushi. No need for raw fish or seaweed.
Heck. You could top your rice with a thin slice of
spam if you wanted to. Kefta or gyro meat would
count also. Raw kibbeh on rice sounds interesting.

mmm. Making sushi is fun. Been too long since I done that...

Oh yes!! it's a lot of fun, but you have to be super-precise in water quantities when making the rice, and then exact amounts of mirin, then comes the fun part!

The rice is super-sticky, you have to wet your hands so it doesn't stick all over you!! Making the classic maki roll is easier than shaping nigri...


Tamago is egg,
Kappa for cucumber,
Ebi for prawn,
Sake (ironically enough) for salmon

I really got into it a while ago

I absolutely love sushi!! !! Love it! Could live on sashimi! I actually lived for a few years in Asia, and my roommates were Asian, they introduced me to all that stuff, and I loved it. To this day, I have to say I could ditch the meat anytime and live off raw fish with wasabi and soy sauce.
Hmmmm, now you're making my mouth water... Time to treat myself to a little sashimi, I think there's a place that's open for lunch downtown...

It came out very good, actually! There's so much that I could treat the whole WP, pity you're not all here!

Yes, yes, yes...absolutely.

The ingredients are pretty cheap, except for the fish, but even so, I can have all-you-can-eat sushi for just a few bucks if I make it myself. Wonderful stuff.

California rolls are easy to make too. Wedges of cucumber and avocado buried in sushi rice, rolled up in seaweed, then cut into slices. Judging by the name, I guess they're not authentic, but that's okay. The Japanese improved on enough stuff us yanks invented, so I figure we can come up with a modification on something they invented.

Only problem here is that I live a long ways from the ocean, so there's no really fresh fish available, but even with frozen fish, it's still pretty good. Somebody pointed out that fishing boats usually freeze the fish they catch anyway.

I don't get technical with making the rice. Just cook it to the right texture and add the vinegar and stir until it tastes right. Usually I use plain ordinary rice.

you can make sushi with those fake crab legs, or make tempera shrimp, the biggest cost is the shrimp, the sushi rice and seaweed sheets are inexpensive, you also need a good rice vinegar. I like to make sushi with wild coho or atlantic salmon, since we can get it cheep here in Alberta, I wouldn't use any farmed salmon since it contains parasites. I also love vegi sushi, with pickled carrot or daikon radish, or avocado, with some tempera green beans. Sashimi is fairly simple to make, but you have to look at how you cut it going against the grain and using very sharp knife, also no when to buy your seafood, never buy on a sunday monday or tuesday, the fish has most likely been aging a few days in the cooler or loading dock, also never buy plastic wrapped seafood, since you can't really smell it, get it at the seafood counter, I bought some tuna for sushi, when I took it out of the plastic wrap it was completely rotten, the neighbors cat wouldn't eat it.