Since I’ve been in Sydney, I’ve developed a mild obsession with sushi. It’s brilliant here, not like the crap you get in Marks and Sparks, it’s so fresh and delicious – I don’t know what I’m going to do when I get back to the UK and there are no good Japanese-owned sushi trains about! Anyway, I decided I would try my hand at making it in order to save some money. I bought all the ingredients – the nori (seaweed), sushi rice, rice wine vinegar, a bamboo rolling mat and some simple fillings to begin with (avocado, cucumber, and red pepper cut into fine strips and tuna with a teriyaki sauce).
The preparation of the rice is by far the hardest and most time consuming bit. You have to rinse it until the water runs clear, then boil it, let it rest, add the sushi vinegar mixture, fold it in, leave it to cool blah blah blah. Then the fun bit: rolling the sushi. I was pleasantly surprised with how my rolls turned out actually – I was expecting them to look quite messy but they were beautiful little things; I was like a proud mother. Granted they didn’t taste as great as the real stuff and my rice was a bit stodgy, but they made a very pleasant lunch today. I’m not sure I saved myself much money though, and I definitely wouldn’t if I bought sushi-grade fish, so, unless I’m desperate, I think I’ll probably stick to buying it from the professionals!
And yes, the photo on the left at the top is my homemade sushi :)
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