今日の夕食は、珍しく手巻き寿司にしました。多分、日本で２度ほどしたきりだと思います。夫は基本的にご飯がそれほど好きではないので、お寿司とお刺身ならお刺身の方が良いという人なので。でも、わたしが食べたくなったので企画してみました。わたしはお魚は食べませんが、きゅうり巻きや納豆巻きが時々食べたくなるんですよね。
Today’s dinner was Temaki Sushi – we hadn’t done this for years and years, I think we had it probably twice in Japan but maybe not since. My husband basically doesn’t enjoy rice very much so he’d rather have sashimi than sushi, so I never felt he would be enthusiastic about having sushi, but I wanted to have some so we tried it. Even though I don’t eat any fish, I do love sushi with cucumber, natto etc.
オンラインのお店から取り寄せれば手に入りますが、この辺りでは生でいただけるお魚は手に入らないので、生のお魚はありません。夫用にスモークサーモンとツナマヨ、他にマークス＆スペンサーズの唐揚げ、梅肉、胡瓜と茄子の糠味噌漬け、生のきゅうり、納豆。
Unless we order specially online from London we cannot get any sashimi grade fish around here, so no raw fish today, but we prepared smoked salmon and tuna mayonnaise for my husband as well as other ingredients – karaage from M&S, Ume (Japanese sour plum pickle), cucumber & aubergine pickles (Japanese), raw cucumber and natto.
今回、夫は納豆に初挑戦。結構美味しいと言っていました。時々見かける唐揚げは合わないと思いました。こちらのきゅうりはあまりパリパリしないのが残念ですが、わたしは納豆ときゅうりに梅肉をつけたのが特に美味しく、夫はツナマヨがお気に入りのようでした。いつもはお米は２合炊いて半分くらい食べるのですが、今日は全部食べ切りました。
Natto is fermented soy beans, it’s one of a few things that many non-Japanese wouldn’t eat because it has very particular smell and texture so I’ve never used it for anything as I didn’t know if my husband would like it, but he tried it today for the first time and actually liked it. We tend to cook 2 cups (Japanese rice measuring cup, which is 180cc) and usually eat a half of that at one meal together, but today we finished it all. My husband liked Tuna Mayonnaise the best and I liked natto and cucumber with Japanese pickled sour plum.
Just in case you don’t know what Temaki sushi is, it’s not what many non-Japanese know as sushi, but it’s something you have at home. You put a piece of special nori (seaweed) on your hand, put some rice, then some kind of filling (with our without wasabi), roll it up lightly, dip it in soy sauce (just a very little) and eat it. Sushi that many think of (the type that has a small rectangular shaped rice with a piece of fish or something on top) is typically something you have in a restaurant or order in Japan, we don’t make them at home.
