A bit of Japanese

Sushi!!!!!!

Love sushi ever since Ubon times, love it to bits. Don’t love Yo Sushi, don’ t love supermarket sushi. Don’t love industrial cheap sushi, that should be banned. If sushi- either very good, which means expensive, or- homemade. Of course it looks nothing like the professional one, but the one I made today tasted awesome. I used sushi rice, flavoured it with some flavouring I bought a while ago in an Asian supermarket, added some rice vinegar, almost too much! I bought  a nice salmon fillet, a tuna  fillet and 3 tiger shrimps, a nice, ripe avo, nori and got cracking. I fancied spicy tuna rolls, like those we used to have every day in Ubon times. I chopped my tuna and mixed with some mayo, lots of chilli sauce and some chopped scallions. The other rolls were with fresh salmon and avo, with the fried shrimp ( I did not attempt a shrimp tempura roll, not just yet). I made 3 nigiri with tuna, which was so fresh, that it had to be done and one inside out thing with the spicy Japanese thing I found on the Posh Shelf in Waitrose.

We loved the result tonight. I thought I overdone the vinegar, but it was full of flavour and the spicy tuna rolls I’m well proud of.

The thing to master now is presentation.

The French rule!

We spent last weekend in Normandy with Moka and Ivan. On Mont St Michel we tried the omelettes the island is famous for- the most expensive lunch in my life, but hey-

It looks enormous, but it was light and fluffy, with lovely salty fried ham served on the side. Great stuff!

The day after Ivan had a seafood platter for lunch;

That was refreshing change after the horribly overcooked shrimps we came across the night before.

Yum!