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« Reply #60 on: May 09, 2011, 09:18:35 am » |
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Oh, now I am hungry, and the only rice I have on hand is brown basmati, which... is just wrong. (I bet I could make it work in a pinch, though.)
And I grew up with either salmon or umeboshi onigiri. I don't have any umeboshi, either. (And I don't eat fish when I'm in Ohio. And while I still tend to have at least one sushi meal when I'm in Seattle, I seem to be generally becoming more vegan... though right now? if I could walk into Musashi's and get an order of their onigiri... oh yeah.)
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« Reply #61 on: May 09, 2011, 09:59:57 am » |
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Onigiri is (are?) my food I've only read about, never tried, and want so much...
They're so easy, though! Here, have some instructions.And I'm an onigiri fan, too. (I know, you're so surprised.) Have now researched Onigiri, not something I thought I'd be doing. Wonder if I can get the requisite rice in Glasgow... |
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« Reply #62 on: May 09, 2011, 04:10:07 pm » |
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Having no onigiri, I shall content myself with macaroni and cheese.
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« Reply #63 on: May 09, 2011, 04:25:37 pm » |
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I was sad because I had no onigiri, until I met a man with no mac and cheese.
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« Reply #64 on: May 09, 2011, 05:39:57 pm » |
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I was sad because I had no onigiri, until I met a man with no mac and cheese.
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"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world." -- Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy
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« Reply #65 on: May 09, 2011, 08:30:28 pm » |
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If you can't say anything good about people, honey, come sit over here by me. I have yarn and onagiri.
Onigiri? We have onigiri fans here? (pulls out a selection with red shiso & salt; plain with soy-infused bonito flakes; wakame bits and sesame seeds; and plain with salmon flakes inside. Oh, and some with the canonical umeboshi centers. Pile of crackling crisp nori strips on the side.) Kombu onigiri are my favorite. Had some for lunch the other day. It makes me so happy to see not-Japanese people squeeing over onigiri I can't even say. http://trinker.livejournal.com/274290.html (Warning, is maybe sad or mad making. Because is about complicated things from my childhood, and assimilation pressure, and food shaming.) |
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« Reply #66 on: May 09, 2011, 08:47:53 pm » |
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Actually, a lot of non-Japanese kids take bento to school in Seattle, including onigiri with, yes, nori. I gave a young friend of my a Kiki's Delivery Service box when she started kindergarten, and her mom packs in for her. It's very much In here now.
{{{Trinker}}}
Aaaand this discussion has inspired me to make onigiri for my sweetie today, because she loves rice and nori but has never had them. As soon as I get up the energy.
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« Reply #67 on: May 09, 2011, 08:54:29 pm » |
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Mm. Onigiri. I have little paroxysms whenever I can get 'em. Good tamales, too.
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« Reply #68 on: May 09, 2011, 11:02:45 pm » |
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Actually, a lot of non-Japanese kids take bento to school in Seattle, including onigiri with, yes, nori. I gave a young friend of my a Kiki's Delivery Service box when she started kindergarten, and her mom packs in for her. It's very much In here now.
{{{Trinker}}}
Aaaand this discussion has inspired me to make onigiri for my sweetie today, because she loves rice and nori but has never had them. As soon as I get up the energy.
^_____________^ !!! (I make my onigiri the old fashioned way, but not with superhot rice. When I was wee, I didn't play mudpies, I played mud-onigiri. And I was frighteningly neat about it, including washing up outside before I came in.) |
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« Reply #69 on: May 10, 2011, 06:44:04 am » |
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Bah! Is there anything people can't turn into a stick to hit other people with? Thanks for the warning, as it happens I was already mad at the BBC this morning for yet another article subtly sticking the knife into disabled people, so this just adds another dimension to the general annoyance at the intolerance of the world around us. |
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« Reply #70 on: May 10, 2011, 09:15:41 am » |
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Bah! Is there anything people can't turn into a stick to hit other people with? No, alas. If there's one thing we're good at as a species, it's turning things into hitting sticks. |
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« Reply #71 on: May 10, 2011, 11:55:00 am » |
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It makes me so happy to see not-Japanese people squeeing over onigiri I can't even say. http://trinker.livejournal.com/274290.html (Warning, is maybe sad or mad making. Because is about complicated things from my childhood, and assimilation pressure, and food shaming.) When I was in... oh, probably second grade, maybe first, I brought sushi to school, once. In retrospect I'm kind of appalled because of the lack of refrigeration, but that's another topic for another day, and there was a cold pack in my lunch box... Nothing particularly fancy, either. I ended up having what I think is the prototypical discussion on the subject. "Ew! You eat dead fish?!" To which I responded "Um, should I eat live fish?" Probably easier for me, because there wasn't the immigrant culture aspect - I was just bringing some of my favorite food. But I only did it once. Though food preferences were a recurring issue through elementary school, until I gave up and just started buying lunches. (The one I remember most is kids freaking out because I brought a thermos full of hot minestrone soup. Huh?) Deviations from the regulation sandwich, fruit and/or fresh veggies and cookies or chips were not tolerated. And they mostly didn't care for my choice of sandwiches, either. |
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« Reply #72 on: May 11, 2011, 07:31:00 am » |
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Thanks, Mad Gastronomer!
Tylik, that experience was just about the opposite of mine. At least in fifth grade, I had a friend who brought sushi to school often and was pandered to in hopes of getting bits of it. (For reference, this was in San Antonio, um... six years ago. *Is embarrassingly young*)
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« Reply #73 on: May 11, 2011, 07:45:44 am » |
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The general trend of human society is, in fact, upwards. *g*
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« Reply #74 on: May 11, 2011, 06:32:54 pm » |
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Yeah, this was late seventies maybe as late as 1980ish. Though I say prototypical because Japanese American friends of mine had pretty much the exact same conversation... but mostly folks closer to my age. IIRC, sushi rolls of various kinds were favored snacks among many of the Capitol Hill* girls' soccer teams fifteen or twenty years later. And it really is true that I was given crap about a lot of the things I brought to school - and, uh, generally during those years I was given a lot of crap. (It turns out that I didn't actually lack the knack of fitting in as much as I was unwilling to pay the price in that context, but boy did I not fit in.)
* My old neighborhood in Seattle. That can be described fairly accuratedly as the old Catholic neighborhood, the old Jewish neighborhood, overrun by academics, and the big queer neighborhood. Yes, I'm still really fond of the old neighborhood, even if it has gentrified alarmingly.
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