There are a couple things people will tell you about me. They will say I love bacon, beer and technology and sometimes they borderline on an unhealthy obsession. What they may not know is my closeted love for the art of sushi.
Many people know sushi as that Japanese food with raw seafood and rice and seaweed and they don't want anything to do with it. This is not a completely unfounded argument as there are a lot of varieties of sushi that contain raw salmon, tuna, crab, roe and even octopus that can intimidate the meat and potatoes crowd! Another common American perception of sushi is that it is expensive and comes in small portions. Two things Americans do not like. Less adventurous Americans out there, listen up! That's why you need me!
You will find simplified recipes in this blog that are a BOLD FUSION of American culture and Japanese tradition. This blog will be useful to those who want to try their hand at the sushi art, but are intimidated by its ingredients and difficulty. I teach the techniques and blend the tastes of America and Japan to show sushi is an easy, compact way to enjoy food. If you are a purist of sushi and feel it should remain solely an untouched Japanese culinary art, then this blog may seem perverse. BUT there is a wide group of people out there that are ready to blend American favorites like mac & cheese and pot roast with the wildly popular California roll.
There is no reason why a sushi roll needs to stay locked into a rice, seaweed, protein veggie pattern. My recent search for a compact post workout meal has spurred me to dive head first into the art of making sushi. In this blog I will post recipes containing simple directions, pictures and alternative ingredients. As a subscriber to this blog, I encourage you to post comments to recipes with alternative ideas, opinions and anything else.
So let's get out there and make something that satisfies our hunger for new flavors. Make something that meets all of our basic nutritional needs in one compact cylinder. Make something beautiful. Make something that promotes good health and inspires the creativity in all of us.