I want to say something profound and relevant, but can't.

My mom ran out of ideas today and dinner was make-your-own-sushi-roll-without-real-sushi-ingredients, and it made me think of, well, sushi, but with you, in Texas, and the sushi stories we shared. So my post is about fake sushi.

How to make fake sushi: (I feel like Arundhati Roy listing her recipe for banana jam, which I thought to be a good (albeit harsh) metaphor for the book itself, although I'd love to hear more about it from Olga and Adrian (sort of) who seemed to have liked the book despite Velutha)
ingredients:
- unsalted seaweed sheets (available at any Japanese/Korean grocery)
- cooked 'real' rice (rice that doesn't fly off your spoon)
- egg (1 or 2...)
- spinach
- oden, or crabstick, or some substitute
- SPAM (I'm so serious)
- kimchi (optional)
- soy sauce and sesame oil

(1) Prepare egg: beat egg, adding a dash of salt and optional sugar. Pour mixture into frying pan and fry. When it starts solidifying, fold like an omelet. Cut into strips.
(2) Fry spam and cut that in strips as well.
(3) Boil spinach with salt
(4) Cook oden if it needs cooking, I don't know
(5) Spread rice thinly on half a side of the seaweed sheet
(6) Place strip(s) of egg, spam, spinach, oden/crabmeat, (optional kimchi) on top
(7) Roll firmly
(8) Dip in soy sauce/ sesame oil to personal liking and enjoy

I'd actually wanted to do this with you guys one night coming home from something - it was midnight - and I suggested a trip to the Korean grocery place Susan got her kimchi from, ultimately having Mónica laugh at me for not realizing most stores close at night.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [3:47 AM]

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