Homemade sushi

Delicious homemade sushi

Norwegians are not known to be running down restaurants, we keep the traditions of eating at home, making our own carefully prepared food (Grandiosa), convinced it's the healthiest food we can get. Supper is also the only warm meal we eat, by all means we can't be said to be high maintenance eating dark bread for the rest of the meals in a day. Coffee, desert and cakes is another story. The coffee must be dark with no milk or sugar. The dessert is simply some kind of pudding or stewed fruits, few ingredients, but oh so good. I am not getting into the cakes as it just would end up with me craving something I shouldn't eat.

Living in Canada showed me a new way of getting food. I can't even remember how many times I was dining out. It sure beats making your own supper-for-one kind of thing. My roommates at BCIT had the privilege(!) of introducing me to sushi. I remember being fairly sceptical to eating raw fish, but then I remembered we Norwegians eat rotten fish(link) and fish(link)baked in caustic soda. With my fear blown away I was sold with my first tempura and califorinia roll. After my first sushi meal I felt full, good full, a feeling I would be craving many times.

Being me and having a girlfriend who is great with food I had my first meal of homemade sushi not too long ago. First of all, getting all the right ingredients was not a stroll in the park, after wandering the shelfs of 5 food stores we had gathered all the needed material. Lessons learned from making sushi at home:

• Preparing sticky rice is almost like making risgrøt(link).
• Cutting fish and vegetables is not as easy as it looks on TV.
• I wish I had a good knife(link).
• If you have 3 huge plates filled with rolls it's more than enough for a family so don't fill 2 more plates.
• Having a girlfriend who knows what to do is KEY.