Claire
Master Chef
My neighbor is throwing a sushi party in a couple of weeks. I haven't made sushi in years, and we don't get to a sushi bar but once every couple of years. SO ... anyone have any hints? We were sort of thinking of making sushi ourselves, so I've already bought a mat, some wasabi and nori. I think our hosts are making yakitori and a cucumber salad. I'm definitely looking for some plum wine for our (sweets loving) hostess. But mostly I'd like anyone who recently have made sushi to write in with those silly dumb things you forget when you haven't done something in a long time. Also if anyone can think of a great side dish or desert for me to bring along. I think that hubby, her hubby and I will be in charge of rolling. If I get to dubuque, I will buy a mold for the kind of sushi where you just lay the .... whatever ... on top of a cube of rice. But mostly I'm looking for hints to make the rice come out better, or those little hints that make things go smoothly. I want to encourage this kind of thing, and my hostess is often very nervous about entertaining, so I want to do all I can to make things go as smoothly as possible for her.