Since I got pregnant, my sweet tooth has slightly increased. Even though it’s not in my nature to ever buy any type of cookies, I saw these Classic Crème cookies in the organic section and on the whim decided to give them a try. I think seeing Oreos commercials in the past few days, made me decide that perhaps I was craving Oreos.
I carried out my Valentine’s Day plan of making sushi for the first time. Both my husband and I love sushi, so that was one of my contributions to our Valentine’s Day’s date.
That afternoon I went online, checked out the key ingredients required for basic sushi preparation and left for my hunting, aka grocery store. To my luck, the sushi guy, from whom I was supposed to purchase the sushi-grade fish, was on the break and was due to be back in 20 minutes. So there I was waiting on the sushi guy and staring at already prepared and prepackaged perfectly good sushi. A thought ran through my mind, maybe I should take a shortcut and buy the premade sushi? Certainly it would be easier, I wouldn’t have to mess with cooking the rice, buying seaweed, rice vinegar…, wrapping it all together. But then what fun would it be?
So I decided to wait. In the meantime I picked up a jar of short grain rice, which wasn’t cheap. I payed over seven dollars for 2 pounds of it, it’s just rice for god’s sake! I got a tube of wasabi sauce, jar of pickled ginger, rice vinegar and seaweed. To my surprise seaweed is quite cheap, I payed $1.89 for 20 sheets of it, which is good for 20 sushi rolls.
As for the sushi-grade fish, it ain’t cheap! Tuna goes for $29 per pound and salmon for $19. So I bought a third of a pound of each and it cost me roughly $16. My total for the sushi ingredients was around thirty dollars. On the bright side though next time I make sushi, I will only need to buy the fish. The rest will last me for a while.
As I got home, I realized that I didn’t have the sushi rolling mat. I got creative and used bamboo place mat with plastic wrap instead. I found the process of making sushi fairly easy. Though, I think it would have been easier to use the actual sushi rolling mat.
As you can see on the picture, visually it wasn’t exactly a masterpiece, but it tasted great! We could definitely taste the difference between the store-bought and the homemade sushi. Homemade tasted more plain and fresher. I got lot’s of compliments from my Valentine. By the way, what you see on the picture is about half of what I made. On the plate next to it, there were two more rolls and couple of pieces of sashimi.
In the end, was making our own sushi worth the hassle? Absolutely! I’m looking forward to the next time!
Oh, these bon bons. You wonderfully surprised me tonight with the odd combination of your chocolaty constituents. it is a harmonic assembly of the chocolate cookie topped with chocolate ice cream and fully covered with dark chocolate. Drooling yet?
As I saw the site of the dark chocolate, I anticipated the taste of decadence. As the cookie touched my mouth, I felt the refreshing coolness of its dark chocolate coating. As it started to melt in my mouth, I tasted the sweet bitterness of the dark chocolate, combined with the cold, sweet sensation of the chocolate ice cream. As I bit further into the firm chocolate cookie, it all came together! All the flavors and textures combined into one refreshing, wonderfully delicious, chocolaty tasting experience!
And the best thing is I didn’t feel a bit guilty afterwords, it only has 60 calories!