Hot Dog Sushi

January 10, 2009 at 9:28 pm · Filed under Food, vegan ·Tagged hot dog, sushi, vegan

When I opened my rice cooker from Santa Mom, I was immediately excited to try making sushi rice in it.  Not that sushi rice is all that hard to make in a pot – I feel like it allows you more wiggle room (read:  error room) than normal rice.  But I really like the idea of pushing a button and ending up with perfect rice.

So I decided one day that I needed to make sushi for dinner.  The problem was that I didn’t really have any suitable fillings, and I didn’t want to go to the store.  I had carrot and avocado, but that wasn’t enough.  So I rummaged around the fridge and came up with veggie hot dogs left over from a barbeque.  And I thought to myself, why not?  Do you ever wonder if you’re the first person in the world to do something a certain way or say a certain combination of words in a sentence?  I’m fairly sure that I’m the only person in the universe that has put a hot dog in sushi.

I cut the hot dog into thin strips, and in the end its was overpowered by the other ingredients, so the sushi wasn’t too hot dog-tastic.

What’s that in the middle?  Yep, it’s hot dog nigiri.  Because, really, why not?  I’m also particularly proud of the spiral effect on those rice-on-the-outside rolls.  And that’s plain old steamed spinach on the bottom of the plate.

What does any sane person do with leftover sushi ingredients?

Sushi bowl for lunch.

Update:  I am definitely not the first person to put a hot dog in sushi.  Dang.

Also, look at this!

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