Monday, March 17

sushi masters

...so over this weekend, David and I decided, instead of paying for the price of labor at a sushi restaurant, we would make some ourselves. Appropriate for St. Pattie's day, no?

First, we stopped by his local Super H-Mart (think of it as a Safeway or Food Lion, but focused on Korean & other Asian foods, snacks, drinks, etc.) for the ingredients. Picked up roasted seaweed, sushi grade salmon, imitation crab meat, unagi (eel), salmon roe, aloe vera drink, and ginger.

The total bill ended up being $30 for all the ingredients, so $15 for each person. We didn't know what to expect as this was our first time preparing, so we jumped two feet in...we learned that Korean 'sticky' rice is too sticky for trying to lay on the seaweed and for balling up for nigiri style. We started pouring sesame oil into our hands to keep the rice from sticking. Fun stuff.

It took us about 2 hours to get everything ready, but was definitely worth it. We ended making about 40 rolls with about 2/3 of the ingredients! We ended up feeding some friends who came over later with the leftover ingredients.

So in the end, we probably made about 60-70 rolls total, which would probably equate to $100-120 at your local sushi place. Very fun for us and it tasted fantastic as well. :)

With Xtreme photography, the food looks excellent!




Yea, I'm definitely ready to prepare some fugu next.

1 comment:

Katie said...

Don't you love HMart? I could (and have) spend hours just looking around!