Male and Female Imponderables--Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 20:49
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PR:
If you end up around here, I'd love to take you out for sushi. I imagine that you were looking for something a bit closer, though.
For the sake of curiosity, what kinds of sushi do you like?
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Heya Seryn!
Actually, other than cheeseburgers, separating meat and dairy has been one of the easiest parts of it for me. I eat maybe one serving of meat a day, if that, so it's just an issue of being aware of what's dairy and what's pareve (neutral) when I am having meat. I've never had any vegetarian leanings, I've just never been that big of a meat eater. And some of the medications I'm on have a tendency to make me nauseous, and meat just makes the situation worse.
By far the hardest issue for me has been giving up pork and shellfish, particularly in their incarnations as bacon and sushi. I don't buy them and cook them in my home, but I'm a little less strict when I go out to eat. I'm working on bacon, and hopefully I'll be over it before I go stay at my parents' house next (my mother has a gigantic cast iron griddle that covers two burners on the stove, and when we're all home, she just loads that up with bacon and pancakes and french toast). Shellfish in sushi will take much, much longer to give up, heh.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Yeah? Where are you, goat?
I like much sushi! My favorites are Unagi, Maguro, salmon, shrimp, and crab. I like just about anything except the sugared egg, the raw egg, the squid, and anything with excessive ammounts of roe because I don't like the texture of roe at all. I'll try just about anything once! Also, I don't like too much wasabi on my sushi because it's a bit difficult to taste anything else under that stuff. I prefer to avoid it but certain places build it right into the sashimi rolls. I've had unagi spoiled that way; I was not happy.
*edit* I totally missed that Seryn had posted! Bad Rose! Hey girl, how ya doin? Can I ask what this best friend did to piss you off? I had a falling-out with a former best friend last year; it was NOT pretty. And I don't think I would ever talk to her again, much as I sometimes miss her. I miss who she was; don't really know who she is anymore.
CK, I could not eat kosher. Could not do it. Best of luck to you, there.
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I'm in Osaka, Japan for now but I'll be back in Wisconsin next summer. Still pretty far, though.
You listed some good ones there. They do tend to be sneaky about the wasabi some times. I put extra on top several times before figuring that out. My favorites are california roll (even though its not traditional sushi), spider roll (deep fried crab and some other stuff) and maguro(tuna, I think). I could go on and on, though. Sushi was pretty much the only thing that kept me from going all out vegetarian.
One interesting thing that I've learned here is that what US sushi places call sashimi isn't really sashimi here. A sushi roll is what is commonly thought of as sushi, sushi is something put over some sushi rice and sashimi is just raw fish.
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I love spider rolls! (One of my favorite ways to eat crab) though California rolls can be about anything. But I like rolls. And yes, maguro is tuna. Yum yum!
Yeah, I've been to places that had plain raw fish for sashimi, but many of them put them on rice and wrap them with seaweed (hence "sashimi roll". Didn't know how else to refer to it) and of course Unagi is also generally served that way.
Oh man, I want sushi...
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PR, heh, yeah, that's hubby's take on it too. But he's strangely supportive of me keeping kosher. One time he threw out my coffee mix when I realized it wasn't kosher, and was trying to decide whether or not to throw it out. Just picked it up and threw it out, then took me grocery shopping. Probably sounds incredibly boring, but I found it really sweet, hehe.
Anyhow, it certainly isn't something anyone else expects me to be doing, and no one is checking up on me when I mess up. Mostly I do it because I like taking the extra minute in the store to see if the thing is kosher before I buy it, I like that I had to make that decision about including the hot dogs with my biscuits tonight. I dunno, it's hard to explain, but I like being reminded about my religious choices in small moments like that.
I will admit that I am a sushi weakling, heh. My favorites depend on the place, but they're generally pretty tame. At the place hubby and I go to now, we get the crazy roll (which is a California roll tempura fried) and the Philadelphia roll, most times. Both are soooooo yummy, but not exact adventurous, hehe.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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You should try Unagi, CK. It's like my dessert sushi because it is just so good. Not shellfish! 
Never heard of a Philadelphia roll, but most places have different names for different things.
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Philadelphia roll is salmon and cream cheese, and sometimes a vegetable like cucumber or asparagus. So very good. Mmmmmm...
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Sounds interesting; never had cream cheese in my sushi. The local place here has a "catapillar roll" which is little bits of eel (unagi) rolled in rice and topped with avacado and sesame seeds. It is very yum.
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