There’s a First Time for Everything
…Even sushi!
Once again, we found ourselves at Anna & Sean’s. Kids playing guitar hero downstairs, adults cooking and chatting upstairs. I puttered around, panfrying potstickers and sauteeing shrimp for Anna while she made the sushi.
I do question whether this really was my first sushi experience. I have a vague memory of maybe, possibly having the Japanese mother of one of the girls in my 6th grade home ec class come in and show us some of her native cuisine. And I’m pretty sure seaweed came into the discussion.
Keep in mind, we were in a small village in the middle of the Canadian prairie…most of us had never had any fish other than in stick form and sushi was so completely off our radar as to be completely alien to us. I clearly remember her frying wonton skins and making a soy sauce dipping sauce for them. I liked those! But I can’t remember anything more than knowing I was expected to eat seaweed in some form. And I have to assume it was sushi. Quite possibly I wimped out. I was a real weenie about some things back them. (But not now…I’m not a weenie now…usually.)
So, back to the present. Anna was making shrimp and smoked salmon sushi and had assured me that the only raw things would be vegetable. She always takes such good care of us when we’re over there, so I wasn’t worried. Maybe just the teeniest-tiniest bit nervous about the seaweed wrap. But worried? Nah!
Well, we loved it. Paul especially. Anna did such a great job making the rolls. They looked just like they were supposed to, were perfectly flavored and oh, so pretty.
For my part, I marinated a couple small flank steaks in soy sauce, ginger, scallions and garlic then threw them on the grill (in the pouring drizzle). The flank steak was good, but the sushi far outshone everything.
So, thanks to Anna and her mad sushi skills, I am no longer afraid of sushi.
As long as I know what’s in it.
Recipes | greengrassliving | 
November 14, 2008 10:58 am
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