In which I am unsophisticated

[jessikast]

I don't like sushi.

This makes me :-(

I keep on trying it. With chicken teriyaki filling, or beef or pork. (I'm not a big seafood person.) And yet!

I CAN'T STAND THE SEAWEED.

The rice is great. I <3 teriyaki stuff, so anything marinated in that is awesome. The other fillings are fine. And yet every time I try sushi I get caught up on the strong-smelling, vaguely chewy seaweed.

And sushi is so frickin' healthy and sophisticated and did I mention the teriyaki element? Which is why I keep on trying and why I keep on being disappointed and why I end up with a box full of strips of seaweed with bits of rice clinging to them while I eat everything else.

(I know that technically "sushi" is the rice and sushi-with-seaweed is something else and that you can get the rice topped with things and tied with cute little bows which would be AWESOME except that it's topped with seafood - see above - and I'm picky.)

Basically, I want someone to take, like, chicken katsu (as made by St Pierre's Bento Bowl, with lashings of teriyaki sauce and mayonnaise) and turn it into something healthy. Is that too much to ask?

Comments

[denerose.livejournal.com]

Try Inari: http://www.shizensushi.com/image/vegetable/34200inari.jpg it is sushi rice (which means rice and vinegar) in a fried tofu pocket. It is my favourite. Sometimes it has avocado in it.

[darthsappho.livejournal.com]

Yes, that stuff is yummy!