We felt like sushi for dinner!!!

Last week (last month now...) the compound was swarming with people. It was nice and it seems a little too quiet now that the fun has subsided. Luckily, this weekend will probably be just as insane. One of our friends from back in the day chose to escape from her crazy grad-school at my house. I guess she thought that a little domesticity might do some good. C had her digging holes for plants in no time and I got a lot of help in the kitchen.
We were up in the air about making food or going out one night and decided to make a giant vegetarian sushi feast for the household. J used to work at a sushi restaurant and had some good rolling technique, so we had no reason not to. We got the rice just right and it all worked out.

We used some produce from the garden and bought some pickled dikon, sweet potato and carrot from the asian grocery store. We made so many different rolls. Let's see, tofu, carrot, cucumber, sweet potato, dikon, lettuce, radish sprouts, shiso leaves, avacado, and lots of wasabi. For a different take on the spicy sauce, we mixed Veganaise (a superior mayo alternative) with Sriracha. It was a sauce worth repeating and I am going to use it again soon.

Making stock and sorta kinda failing.

I bought some marrow/soup bones from the farmer's market. The bones were beautiful and had a lot of meat on them. My freezer was looking empty with no frozen stock, so I decided to make stock and steal the marrow for a snack. I made a weak onion broth, NOT beef stock. The only thing that came out of this (besides a freezer full of weak onion broth) was that I learned the key to cooking bone marrow. If you soak the bones for 24 hours pre-cooking, the marrow just slides out. Yumm!!!Above, you can see that I had altogether too much onion and water. I needed more bones or less water. Either way would have been better. Plus, I always tend to boil the crap out of my stock. According to every cookbook I own, I am not supposed to do that.

You can see that the marrow is a nice color. It slid right out of the bone and onto my bread. That was a lot of work for one marrowy snack. Next time, more bones and NO BOILING. I will have to make a sign and hang it over my stove.