We had a fab evening at our local branch of the not-prevalant enough island-themed grocery store. While in the cheese aisle I heard one employee ask another, "If you were going to make a tuna pizza, what would you put on it?" Though the Q wasn't directed at me, I blurted out kalamata olives. The other worker said "feta or goat cheese"; and when asked for the sauce I offered a lemon garlic aioli. We're going to call it the George Pizza in honor of the initiator. I'll let you know how it turns out next week.
Today we GPS'ed (that's a verb) to the Lucky Farm Asian Super Something Grocery Mart in NE Philly, to find the requisite makings for sushi - which I doubt we could find in Lancaster. Every aisle is filled with the often unpleasant, always pungent smell of foods not packaged well. Don't bother to ask for help locating what you want nor deciphering the packages. We opted for the Kikoman soy sauce, and the rice vinegar from Japan instead of China or Korea. We're hedging our bets on Japan having slightly better standards of food production. And though it might be an ignorant approach, we erred on the more expensive end, merely hoping that this will get us a safer product. The nori (seaweed) ranged from 99 cents to $9 dollars per package, but we settled for something in between - supposedly made in and shipped from NY state.
Weirded out by the pink-hue jarred variety, I am going to pickle my own ginger and grate my own wasabi. The available product comes out of a toothpaste-like tube. No thanks.
The next challenge will be finding sushi-grade fish. I'll keep you posted.
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Sadly, this may be the closest H Mart to you:
ReplyDeleteCatonsville
Tel : 443-612-9020
800 North Rolling Rd.
Catonsville, MD 21228
And don't knock the pink hued ginger - it tastes fabulous :)
ReplyDeleteI can't handle the color! It's too far from it's original form ... much like a golden arch burger I suppose.
ReplyDeleteThx for the address! Not a whole lotta that in the lanc'
You know the pink hued ginger. We used that for full moon announcement. Full moon is when a baby reaches 1 month old-very important chinese tradition. We give out red colored hard boiled eggs and pink ginger. Alas! i never did learn the pickling art. I guess i should from mum one fine day.
ReplyDeleteOh those pickle are really tasty.
By the way did you use sushi rice? Don't use ordinary short grain rice-it just doesn't cut it.