In the Kitchen: Sushi Mania

It was a combined chef effort in the kitchen for unprecendented sushi mania. We had freshly opened sea urchin, prawns cooked on skewers (so they stayed flat and didn't curl!), broiled eel, flying fish roe, sashimi salmon... it was a seafood bonanza!

Clockwise from bottom left: gunkan-maki (battleship wrap) with flying fish roe; gunkan-maki with sea urchin roe; bara-maki (rose roll); inside-out California roll; maki-sushi with salmon and cucumber, salmon and avocado and plain salmon.

Clockwise from bottom left: Nigiri-sushi with prawn, avocado and broiled eel; salmon sashimi

Clockwise from bottom left: nigiri-sushi with broiled eel, salmon and tuna (sandwiched in the middle and topped with seaweed furikake); inari-sushi with salmon, cucumber and avocado

Clockwise from bottom: boiled edamame soybeans; nigiri-sushi with tuna middle; seaweed salad; nigiri-sushi with salmon and broiled eel.

Our home-made sushi efforts are getting better, but I've still gotta work on the zen of food styling and night-time photography!

Related GrabYourFork posts:
Home-made sushi - Sushi frenzy, 13 Nov 04 and
Home-made sushi - Steamboat and sushi extravanaga, 5 Sep 04

8 Comments:

At 1/27/2005 3:07 pm, pinkcocoa said…

Wow!! this looks yummy! You are so good with sushi! really have to learn from you ;-)
At 1/27/2005 3:22 pm, Fish Fish said…

Are these all home-made? Hard to believe. Look so nice. wow! Impressed. Hey, is the flying fish roe the orange colour one? Here, they called in Tobikko, my favorite.

And the last pic edamame and seaweed salad oso my favorites. :P
At 1/27/2005 7:05 pm, Anonymous said…

Can't believe all these were homemade! They look so professional; in fact they look even better than some store-bought ones I've had. Way to go! :)

Julia
www.aromacookery.com
At 1/30/2005 12:05 am, obachan said…

Wonderful!! Just wonderful!!
At 1/31/2005 4:59 pm, pinkcocoa said…

hahaha. No problem. I can be in charge of sweet things while you get all those sushi done!! One of my favourite ingredient in sushi is kanpyo (dried gourd). I am the type who would actually order the cheapest sushi if ever I head to a sushi restaurant!

I forgot to say you have very good food presentation skill. I spot that cute pickled ginger rose there!!

So you guys use global knife? I am a cleaver girl.....-_-....aiks....
At 1/31/2005 9:23 pm, Ms One Boobie said…

Hey.. AG,
Not only impressive.. but adventurous.. but tat's you we are talking about.. ;) so i shouldn't be too surprised.. ;)
At 2/01/2005 9:20 am, Veruca Salt said…

Commenting frenzy! Loves it!!! We had heaps of fun and did not make too much of a mess. The sushi and sashimi were delicious between mouthfuls of seaweed salad and long warm sips of miso soup. Thank you AG for introducing me to Endamame. Disappointed that we could not source fresh mackeral, kanpyo or make the eel from scratch. Definitely one for next time. Stay tuned dear readers for Sushi Mania 2, that is if AG is up for it, after my trip to Japan.
At 2/01/2005 9:24 am, Veruca Salt said…

Commenting frenzy! Loves it!!! We had heaps of fun and did not make too much of a mess. The sushi and sashimi were delicious between mouthfuls of seaweed salad and long warm sips of miso soup. Thank you AG for introducing me to Endamame. Disappointed that we could not source fresh mackeral, kanpyo or make the eel from scratch. Definitely one for next time. Stay tuned dear readers for Sushi Mania 2, that is if AG is up for it, after my trip to Japan.