A Non-Threatening Sushi Introduction With My Simple Sushi Recipe

Ok. How many of you have friends that hear the word sushi and immediately make a face? And then they tell you they’ve never had sushi before. Raw fish, what? Ewww. Have you ever converted one of those friends? That’s fun. Here’s a sushi recipe that will start you down that path.

Basically - what you want to do is have the friend over for a meal. Start the meal off without a sushi recipe in site. Seriously - but at some point before the main course of the meal - introduce a plate of rolls (like the one in the previous post!). And when they ask what they are, just explain that they’re some rolls that you made with rice and cucumber and avocado. Show them how you dip them in some soy sauce before you eat them.

After they’ve eaten a few comment about how much you like sushi. When they say what? Just explain the scope and variety of sushi. They have a sushi recipe with crab, some with just vegetables - talk about all the different things and how good they are.

It won’t take long till your heading out to a sushi lunch with this friend - they might not even try any fish - but that’s ok, because they’ll enjoy the experience and most likely will eventually venture into the different types of sushi recipes there are.

And my favorite thing: some point down the road they’re going to say, “Hey, let’s go out for sushi.” To which you can copy they’re old reactions by cringing and saying Ewww! That’s always good for a laugh. Before you know it - you’re friend will be bringing you a sushi recipe for your sushi nights at home.

Patrick

The Keys To A Good Sushi Recipe: Fresh Fish, Good Rice, and A Good Mind

Endo Kazutoshi is one of London’s premier sushi chefs and he thinks that the most important things for a good sushi recipe and cook to have are fresh fish, good rice, and a good mind. I just came across this article on Bloomberg.com.

He says that in order to make good sushi it’s important to understand the person eating his sushi recipe as it is to understand the fish. A simple example of this is illustrated by the fact you wouldn’t want to slice a piece of sushi for a petite woman the same as you would for a large man. It just doesn’t make sense.

When asked how long he thinks it will take him to perfect his craft of sushi (a craft in which he is already considered a master), he simply said he wouldn’t be done studying until he died. The mind is just as important in your sushi recipe as the mayonnaise or the rice.

Patrick