{"id":445,"date":"2009-04-13T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=445"},"modified":"2009-04-13T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T10:00:55","slug":"sushi-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve seen a lot of recipes for Sushi floating around the internet lately. And I’ve known quite a few people that have made it… I wanted to try too!<\/p>\n

So I talked to my neighbor – who just happens to frequent ‘Happy Sushi’ – we set up a time and the rest is history!<\/p>\n

I ended up going to an oriental market down by my mom’s house to get a lot of the things we needed. The prices are better down there than they are at the local market. And the man that owns\/runs the shop is very friendly and helpful too. I picked up some short grained rice, Nori, rice vinegar, and bamboo rolling mats while I was there.<\/p>\n

The ingredients were surprisingly cheap. Especially when considering that its common to drop $10 or more on a single roll at a sushi bar.<\/p>\n

Let me give you an idea…<\/p>\n

– Rice, 5 lbs.: approx. $6
\n– Nori, 10 sheets (enough for 20 rolls): approx $4
\n– Rice Vinegar, 24 oz: approx $2
\n– bamboo rolling mat: $2<\/p>\n

– Imitation crab: $2.50
\n– Avocado: $1
\n– Cucumber: $1
\n– Cream Cheese: $1<\/p>\n

Sure… there are a few other things you need. A bit of sugar and salt. Maybe other things in the middle… jalape\u00f1os, shrimp, etc…<\/p>\n

The point is that for less than $20 you can make 20 basic rolls, and still have a lot of the basic ingredients leftover for later. So, $1 (or less) per roll vs. $10 (or more) per roll.<\/p>\n

AND, it was fun to make!<\/p>\n

(I posted the actual recipe(s) on my food blog<\/a> – if you want to give it a try)<\/p>\n

Here area a few more pictures!!<\/p>\n

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P.S. Doesn’t it look like we had fun! We sure did. Thanks friends for joining me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

P.S.S. Dave won’t eat the Sushi. He thinks I’m weird. I am. But that’s beside the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen a lot of recipes for Sushi floating around the internet lately. And I’ve known quite a few people that have made it… I wanted to try too! So I talked to my neighbor – who just happens to frequent ‘Happy Sushi’ – we set up a time and the rest is history! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}