Category Japanese Cuisine

I had such a craving for corned beef & potatoes earlier last week. When I said corned beef, I don’t mean the corned beef brisket cooked in crock pot for hours with whole potatoes and cabbage to serve as the main entree during Irish Day. Although after typing all that I’m certainly craving that right now, Hah! Anyhooo, I’m talking about the corned beef in can, like the Libby’s kind, sauteed in a little bit of oil, with tomatoes, and small potato cubes. Give me a bowl of that with rice and I’m good for the day.

I bought all the stuff I needed but then I figured since I love eating the sauteed corned beef with rice anyway, why not turn it into sushi rolls? That would be something new to blog about for sure. My husband thought it was weird. My son thought it was cool. I kept saying it’s something new. My husband was right. the corned beef & potatoes rolls were weird. I mean they’re edible and we ate them but I was missing the seafood flavor of sushi rolls.

This is pretty much a learning curve. I’m posting the recipe here which in all honesty is really easy to figure out just with what I’ve already written about it, just to show you how I made the rolls. Perhaps, you want to try to make them so you can decide for yourselves.

Sometimes when I use smoked salmon for a sushi roll, I just lay the smoked salmon on top of the rice, then add omelet and either avocado or cucumber. Sometimes, I chop up the smoked salmon, mixed it with chopped slightly ripe mango and chopped scallions, then sprinkle some seasoning before spreading the mixture on top of the rice then roll it all up tight and snug. They’re really good.

I have been craving sushi something terrible so I made some crab rolls this past Sunday. I made 2 kinds, crab with cucumber and crab with avocado. I even took out one of the sushi mats from my sushi making kit just to enjoy the experience of making sushi again. My son and I surely enjoyed the homemade sushi rolls for lunch.

This pork and broccoli teriyaki dish was a yummy dish to end my productive day yesterday. I had been sick all week but finally felt better yesterday so I tackled loads and loads of laundry, cleaned, and even swiffered the floors. A nice dinner certainly was a perfect way to end the day. Pork and Perfect Day definitely have a nice ring in my world. Let’s add in some broccoli for some color because color is good in our lives, no?

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