Last saturday we had a sushi party at my girlfirends house. It was all orchestrated by her Japanese flatmate- and was a totally fun and delicious experience.
We got up extra early to go to a cafe called Lisboa which makes traditional Portuguese custard tarts, magdalenas and serves great caffe lattes (Galao) yummy yummy yummy.It is on Golbourn St in London - very close to Portobello rd and also to a great fishmonger (and my work). We bought super fresh tuna, salmon, prawns and clams- freshness of the fish is really important if you are going to eat it raw!
I went off to work and when i came home that evening it had all been done!
She had prepared the sushi rice in a rice steamer and then mixed it with special sushi vinegar. Also- she had premade tempura prawns and sweet potato, as well as japanese omlette. The tuna and salmon was sliced finely, and avocado and cucumber was also sliced into batons ready to be rolled. We all learnt how to make a hand roll- which as you can see from the pics, you put a piece of sushi seaweed wrapper in your hand, make a bed of rice, and then fill as you please- finally making it into a cone shape to eat!
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