learn to make sushi

I have always thought that making home-made sushi could be a fun, easy and cheap alternative to our local sushi bar(s). However, I was never sure where to start! Luckily, our friends Jason and Kate invited us over for a sushi potluck – Jason works as a chef, and this awesome couple have been making their own sushi for awhile.

They provided the seaweed, rice, and garnish – we brought the salmon, crab, prosciutto… whatever our minds could think of! Kate was a great teacher, and Jason made some awesome sticky rice. Rolling the sushi was the most difficult part, the mats can be a bit tricky to use! However, it wasn’t about perfection – just about an awesome night with a few friends.

I found some recipes for Vegan Rolls in Veg Source Magazine! Saving it for when Tim gets home so we can make them together!

Me and the girl may go and learn for our two year anniversary.

My better half and I are going to a course run by Yo Sushi for our two year anniversary in a couple of weeks time. Should be ace!

I told my boyfriend that I wanted to learn to make my own sushi and he found a Ding Ho Starter Kit for me! For people living in South Africa, he picked it up at the Spa, but I’m sure you can find something similar at other stores. The kit includes:

Packet of Nori
Sushi rice
Sushi Vinegar
Sushi Mat
Kikkoman Soy Sauce
Tube of Wasabi paste
Seasoned Pickled Ginger
2 pairs of wooden chopsticks
2 sauce dishes
Sheet of very easy to follow instructions on how to make sushi (very important!!)

He also threw in carrots, cucumber, avo (we’re vegetarian) and a small bottle of Sake. Wow, everything – and I mean EVERYthing – I could possibly need. I can’t wait to get started! It’s too late to make any tonight, but I’m going to have my first bash at it tomorrow!

I had a neighbor teach me! It was a lot of fun!

Well, I bought sushi ingredients the other day. I made the rice, decided I wanted to use cucumber and tuna, rolled it all up on the mat like it said to, and it all promptly fell apart when I bit into it haha! I had to eat them with a knife and fork which was a bit tricky as the seaweed wrap was chewier than a very chewy thing. I shall not be beaten! I shall try again!

We bought a kit a few weeks ago and yesterday decided that we’d give sushi a try. So we have all the ingredients. Take of rolling was okay. Some of the rolls were deformed, but largely recognisable and it tasted delicious. We’‘ve got some more rice on so that we can give it another go.

Yeah! Hopefully I can tick this off as done tonight!

I went out in town yesterday and got all the stuff I need to make sushi. I even asked a guy at Universe, in my VERY broken Japanese, where something I needed was! Woo!! So after dance class this morning I am going to come home and try my hand at making sushi rice and then a few rolls! I hope it turns out, cause I am a sushi addict and making it myself is much cheaper than feeding the need at the pink sushi place out in town. :)

I just discovered this year that I like sushi. There is nowhere around me that sells it, so I will have to make my own.