The most important part of sushi is the rice, since it makes up so much of the dish. It can’t be too soft or too hard, too dry or too moist. The rice also needs to be seasoned properly to complement what it’s paired with.

For lunch today, I prepared Inari sushi. Inari is Japanese for their sweetened tofu. The tofu are little pockets that are stuffed with sushi rice. Inari sushi is a great meal for lunch since they’re small two-bite pieces that can’t get damaged in the transportation process (unlike my sushi last time which got crushed in the transportation process :( ). To make it a little more interesting, I added some wakame salad before stuffing the pockets with rice. The sushi rice is seasoned with sushi vinegar and lightly with aji nori furkikake (seasoned seaweed & sesame mix).

Inari Sushi

Got up bright and early at 6:40 am as usual, and heated up the leftover sushi rice that I made yesterday. After cooking the rest of the radish cake for breakfast, there was a bit of time left to roll some maki/kimbap hybrid. The fillings were more kimbap style, but the rice was sushi rice. I rolled them in three different ways:

• nori makizushi – wrapped in nori
• uramaki – wrapped in nori with rice on the inside
• rice paper makizushi – wrapped in rice paper

and prepared a whole bunch of ingredients late last night to put in:

• kimchi (pickled cabbage)
• tomago (sweet egg)
• hiyashi wakame (seaweed salad)
• spinach
• vegetarian chả lụa (Vietnamese sausage)

I was also going to make some inarizushi (the stuffed tofu pockets) but I figured I’d be pretty full from all the maki that I had made.

For dinner, I made cauliflower casserole (finally finishing off the cauliflower sitting around in my fridge). All at the same time I was watching Glee which is a hilarious show I just started watching on the weekend. Following the recipe I found here, but used mozzarella (I forgot to add the parmesan) and didn’t add breadcrumbs, because we didn’t have any in the house. It was an extremely simple straight-forward dish, but the results were SOOO GOOD. Can’t wait to finish it off tonight!

Looks like I’m falling behind in my writing already!

Sushi Salad Rolls

Yesterday, for lunch I made some extremely simple salad rolls. Lettuce, vegetarian Vietnamese sausage and banana peppers all rolled up in rice paper. I also added some rice to the mix and created some sushi/salad roll hybrids. And lots of rice left over for some more sushi! Pretty healthy, although it was a little bland :( some soy sauce would have fixed that problem.

Salad Rolls

For dinner I wanted something quick so I could head to the gym so I just ate rice with some stir-fried cabbage similar to earlier (finally finishing off all that cabbage that was left in my house).

I promise that I’ll have something more interesting tomorrow!