Sushi!

When you think of sushi, what do you think of? What types of word comes to mind?  I hear all the time from people who have never tried sushi before, they tell me, it’s gross, nasty, and how can you eat that?!  Well, people have a miss-conception of sushi.  As Alton Brown from the Food Network said in his show, Good Eats, sushi is defined as rolled up rice, not a piece of fish on rice.

I admit, when I tried sushi the first time, I hated it, it was one of the worst things I’ve put in my mouth.  Of course, I’ve always hated seafood, like tuna, salmon, and white fish, but I had to try it.  Someone once told me that you are ignorant if you don’t understand something and make judgment on it.  That always stuck in my head, and I knew I had to try sushi for the first time.

The first time I tried sushi was at this local Sheboygan restaurant called Grotto’s.  I had a California roll with crab meat, avocado, cucumber wrapped in rice and nori.  When I took my first bit, it smelled like the crab meat was pulled out of Lake Michigan and thrown together in a second.  I literally threw my food up at the restaurant because the smell was too strong for me to even taste the sushi.

Until I went to California on a visit, was I able to get a good taste of sushi in the land of possibilities!  I had gone to a restaurant called Koji’s, right in the middle of the Hollywood strip.  I can’t remember the name of the roll I had but it was nothing like I had when I went to Grotto’s.  Cucumber, avocado, rice, onions was wrapped in rice, around the sushi, they had wrapped a thin seared steak on it.  I had dipped that in soy sauce with a little wasabi paste, and boy was that DELISH!!!  Finally, sushi was no longer a battle of just trying, it now is more of trying to find or even make sushi the way I like it, my own! Yum!