Sushi

In combination with the sandwich, hors d'oeuvre and salad units, we had a guest speaker, Sharon Bartlett, who is of Japanese decent come in and show us how to make sushi!  Sharon uses her expertise in sushi making, as well as her equipment, to show students how to create a sushi roll.

Students prepping sushi fillings

Sharon demonstrating how to assemble a sushi roll.

A lot of students had never tried sushi, let alone make it.

Maggie about to roll!

We were told by Sharon that a sushi roll should be filled with an odd number of ingredients. It is bad luck if you don't.  So students chose combinations of 3, 5 and some 7.  Ingredients to choose from included: smoked eel, imitation crabmeat, Japanese scrambled egg, simmered vegetables (celery & carrots in soy sauce), pickled ginger, avocado, shiitake mushrooms and of course seasoned rice. Ingredients were then rolled up in a toasted nori sheet (dried seaweed sheets), sliced and devoured. There were no leftovers in this lab :)

Larissa making sure she has an odd number of ingredients

Another delicacy was shared, Bean Curd.  A bean curd pocket was carefully opened and stuffed with the seasoned rice, then dipped into soy sauce.  Mmmmm .. It was tasty. 

A sushi roll and bean curd pod.

We would like to thank Sharon for her time and expertise. She even made the day more special for certain students by giving them a rolling mats and all students received a really nice set of chopsticks.

Thank you Sharon!