Sushi

Laura made us some veggie rolls yesterday and they were fantastic, as usual.

Veggie Sushi

Mmmmm, Sushi

Laura made me two different sushi rolls. The one shown on the square plate has avocado, mango, green onion and cucumber. The one on the round plate below has mushrooms, green onions and cucumbers.

Veggie Sushi

I love sushi so much. After she makes the rolls, I always throw the rest of the rice and leftover veggies into a couple of bowls and have sushi bowls because they're just as delicious, but not as pretty. I've never rolled sushi, but Laura does a great job of it.

Laura rolling sushi

Sushi wrap in progress

Sushi Prep

So, when you don't use raw fish in your sushi, it automatically becomes vegan. We did used to use cream cheese in our sushi back in the vegetarian days, but I honestly don't miss it (especially after the reaction I had to dairy last night when I decided a cheat day was in order and got a hot chocolate from Tim's...nope).

In the pic below, Laura has all the veggies chopped or sliced and the mushrooms cooked on one plate and the sushi rice all prepared on the other.  Just past that is a sushi mat with a sheet of Nori and a layer of rice spread over it.

Prepared veggies and cooked sushi rice

In this pic, taken another night, the sushi ingredients are mango, cucumber, avocado, flat-leafed parsley and basil.

Sushi ingredients

Nori (Seaweed)

Laura doesn't like Nori. Nori is seaweed and gives the sushi rolls kind of a fishy flavor, which I love. It's briny and delish. She makes her own rolls using rice wraps, which are just clear sheets with little or no flavor. No flavor is better than bad flavor, right? If you don't like it, eat something you do like.

Sushi rice on a sheet of Nori

Pickled Ginger

Laura combines soy sauce, sesame oil and garlic powder for a dip and serves them with wasabi paste as well. The ginger (shown above the plates in the pic below) is for palate cleansing. We finally found some pickled ginger that doesn't contain aspartame. In fact, it's not sweetened at all, which was fine. I still have never found out why most ginger is sweetened with aspartame. 

Sushi that Laura made for me