In the Kitchen with a Southern Sushi Chef
Some suggestions for those participating in the Roogle Riesling tasting Free Sushi Booklet – Download a free, printable sushi instruction booklet with techniques, sushi recipes, step by step photos, a recipe for brown sushi rice, and much more. Some form of sushi with crab is what I highly suggest. But it’s not the only thing [...]
Love sushi? Love wine? Join us for an online tasting! Every Thursday night, The Commercial Appeal’s (Memphis, TN)food editor, Jennifer Biggs, hosts a virtual wine tasting on her blog. Each week, a wine is selected and a local chef and/or wine expert logs into a live blog feature to talk food and wine. This Thursday, [...]
A chilling account of a sushi house haunted by something other than ghosts…. I like to experience food adventures vicariously through various food blogs. When I’m in the mood for a bit of humor, I enjoy reading the adventures of Adam D. Roberts, mastermind of The Amateur Gourmet blog. His sense of humor makes it hard [...]
Duck is perhaps my favorite non-traditional sushi ingredient and one that I have used for many years. To keep the duck tender for nigiri, I make use of the nami-giri technique – a type of wave cutting where the tip of a knife is rocked back and forth briskly while cutting, leaving the slice [...]
This vegan roll will tempt even the most die hard seafood and meat lover. Hearty portobello mushrooms are simmered in a soy sauce based broth and paired with pleasantly chewy oven dried tomato slivers and scallions. The finished product is then rolled in chopped toasted walnuts. When preparing the walnuts, be sure to use a knife [...]
For the past few months, I have been training an apprentice. But he’s a little elusive and has managed to dodge nearly every photo I’ve tried to take of him in action. In this picture he couldn’t dodge because we were locked into our station and busy preparing sushi for a party of about [...]
Since oysters can be eaten raw or cooked, it would seem only natural that they would be incorporated into sushi. But oysters are rarely used in sushi applications. You may find the occasional oyster gunkan maki (raw oyster perched on top of a nori bound “battleship”) or even a snazzy “sashimi” with Japanese inspired condiments, though [...]
