Guest Post: Sushi Is For The Dogs

(This is the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Julie) Thus continues our short series in foods inspired by Virginia. That’s Virginia the person, not Virginia the state. Virginia the person is way cooler. Especially in this heat. And she’s nicer to gay people and doesn’t talk about the War of Northern Aggression [...]

Guest Post: First Solo Sushi Attempt

(This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of guest posts by Julie!) So, inspired by this blog, I finally decided to take the plunge and make my own sushi. The sushi plunge. To prepare myself, I read all of Virginia’s sushi posts, although that really just made me want to create [...]

My Sushi Kick Continues: Tamago (egg) Madness!

I should probably accept the fact that my tamago (egg omelet) will never look perfect. Creating those fabulous rectangular pieces of egg with the rounded edges, the ones that perch delightfully atop a mound of rice in those scant few seconds before you stuff it down your gaping maw, requires a rectangular pan, whereas I [...]

Cute Onigiri

Onigiri, a.k.a. balls of seasoned rice with stuff inside, are really great to make when you desperately crave sushi and you a.) want to be cheap and make your own food and b.) are too lazy to make full blow sushi. Not that onigiri are that lazy, really, as there’s still preparation to them, but [...]