A few nights later, a friend of mine whose father is quite a gourmet chef, invited me to a sushi party. Unfortunately it was one of the nights were I was burning the midnight oil working on translating Antiphon's speeches. However, she decided to drop by and bring me a taster plate of sushi (along with some crème brûlée).
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I first tried a spicy tuna mixture which went on some kind of strangely colored cracker. It was fantastic. Next was a salmon cooked with mango and some kind of sauce-- interesting but not my favorite. There was also an uncooked salmon in some kind of sauce that was decent, but once again not my favorite (see a pattern?). Then there were two of the same red snapper, which were pretty good. Finally, on the taster plate, there were two different types of scallops. Both were good, but the slightly sweeter one was better. Finally, the pièce de résistance, was the little dish in the back. I have no idea what it was, but it was fantastic.
This friend also brought me lunch for the next days: miso black cod (cooked) and an asparagus-mushroom dish. The black cod was both buttery and sweet, which was interesting, but I couldn't eat a whole lot of it.
I'm not a huge sushi fan but that's probably because I haven't given it a chance. The miso black cod sounds really good.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like sushi at all for two reasons: (1) I hate seaweed and (2) no one was going to get me to eat raw fish. However, this was just sushi, not sushi rolls so the first problem didn't apply. Second, this sushi was made by the father of a friend, who is quite a gourmet and who very carefully chooses his fish (and knows what he's doing). I don't think I would ever order sushi at a restaurant or make it myself because I simply don't know how to chose fish that won't give me food poisoning. However, when it was so graciously offered to me it was hard to refuse...
ReplyDeleteBasically, if you do choose to give it a chance, find someone to make it for you who knows what their doing and I have a feeling you will be pleasantly surprised like I was. It turns out, when prepared well, raw fish neither tastes raw nor like fish. Go figure.