Rolling Your Own

We've gotten pretty good at the whole sushi-at-home thing. This was greatly driven by the closure of our favorite cheap sushi place, Shijaaku. It reopened around Dec as the classier Kaishumaru. The sushi cuts look better, but not enough to justify the price hike. And while the tank of doomed sea creatures is pretty cool to watch, rumors of a legless octopus floating around depressed me.

Then Ishii-sensei had us over to his house for temaki-zushi. And we caught the bug.

Now we indulge ourselves fairly often. Two blocks of good fish, some avocado, cucumber, rice and trimmings, and you've got a fantastic dinner. A little miso soup rounds it out nicely.

Now to learn the art of blow-torching so we can make those seared nigiris.



Pic: I stumbled across this nattoh-maki in the conbini. Don't worry, I didn't buy it.