It’s Easy to Make Simple Sushi with the Grandkids
Looking back over six years of blogging, I can add more input to previous posts with the advantage of hindsight and experience, or simply to complement emerging trends. Today, I’m adding more information to a past post to address a new food craze among kids: sushi.
A recent article from The Wall Street Journal was surprising: “Parents are Going Broke from their Kids’ Sushi Obsession.”
Save Money by Making Sushi at Home
I wondered if these parents had ever considered making sushi at home….
Some time back, I wrote a blog post about easy ways to make sushi, providing recipes to demonstrate how doable it can be for any home cook. Sushi is simply vinegared rice. You cook short-grain rice and toss it with a vinegar-sugar-salt mixture. Then you turn it into various kinds of sushi. Some types are easier to make than others.
Making sushi at home is a money saver when compared to restaurant sushi. While nori is expensive, the rest of the ingredients are basic supermarket items. You can buy nori sheets from Asian markets, most grocery stores, or even Amazon, Walmart, or Target. Here are some tips for selecting nori.
Make-Your-Own Sushi
In light of The Wall Street Journal article, I began wondering how to tap into kids’ love of sushi to involve them in the making of it, when I was reminded of a brilliant idea from Sunset magazine.
Years ago, the magazine featured a make-your-own sushi dinner party. The host provides all the fixings, such as julienned vegetables and seafood. You set out squares of nori and seasoned rice, and have guests do the assembly.
We can adapt this idea for kids. They’ll get a kick out of selecting ingredients to fashion their own sushi. Cutting the vegetables into fine slivers can be tedious work for the home cook, but it can be done in advance. Or simplify by incorporating fewer vegetables.
It’s not About Raw Fish
As you may know, sushi isn’t raw fish. The term describes the seasoned, vinegared rice. Raw fish is only one of the toppings you can use. Since I don’t eat raw fish myself, despite my Japanese heritage, my toppings are vegetables, omelets, or cooked shellfish.
Find the Recipe
You can find the original blog post, with newly added directions for making your own sushi here.
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