I have finally started cooking again–I made a basic yogurt-based chicken-and-potato curry on Sunday (it was okay, but the chicken was pretty tasteless–real food, however, was an exciting occurence in our house).
Last night we decided to make sushi. We already had ridiculous amounts of sushi rice and nori, so I picked up some tobiko (flying fish eggs), fake crab, avocado, cucumber, green onions, and sashimi-grade tuna (they were out of salmon, sadly). While it’s true that our homemade sushi isn’t the best sushi ever, it’s still a lot better than most of what you can buy in Colorado Springs. Not only that, but under $30 fed three people full of delicious sushi. No pictures, I’m afraid, since we were pretty hungry by the time I’d acquired all the ingredients (it took three grocery stores, annoyingly, and I got lost trying to find the one with the tobiko and sashimi).
1/2 lb. sashimi-grade tuna – $10
1/8 lb. tobiko – $5
1 avocado – $2
Green onions – $1.50
Cucumber – $1
Fake crab – $2
Rice – ~$0.50
Nori – ~$4
Soy sauce – pennies
Wasabi – pennies
It reminds me that we really ought to make sushi more often (I actually have a book and video on making sushi that I should get around to looking at sometime). It’s really the only way to get enough sushi without breaking the bank.
Next time I’ll just have to call ahead to see if the one overpriced gourmet grocery that consistently sells sashimi-grade fish has salmon (Whole Foods now sells some kinds of sashimi-grade fish by the pound, but I haven’t seen salmon yet and their staff is generally a lot less knowledgeable about sushi, which makes me nervous).
Hi, Melissa. We at the NC have kidnapped a cute little blurb of yours on Ceylon Cinnamon for our spice-Punx sideblog.
Yes! I feel less alone in the world.
Aw, thanks. Since then I’ve swung back around to preferring cassia for most purposes, but I do love the smell of Ceylon cinnamon.
Hi I was trying to find out where to get sushi ingredients in Colorado Springs. Are you here in the Springs? Do you have any updates to this info you’ve already provided? Where is the overpriced gourmet grocery? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
I don’t live in the Springs anymore, but the overpriced gourmet grocery is Par Avion, on Southgate. They have a good selection of sashimi-grade fish and sell frozen tobiko. Also, at least in Boulder, Whole Foods now has a much better selection of sashimi fish and their sushi counter will usually sell you tobiko or more usually masago if you ask. You can get nori at any natural foods store.