EnnaEel Cooks

June 19th, 2008

But you don’t really care much for bike rides or autumn. Or me.

Posted by LA in Recipes, Rice

Crab maki-zushi and spinach salad with miso dressing. So, I haven’t been cooking much lately. My expendable income has largely been spent on a new Canon 30D (with new 17-85 mm lens, and 430EX) after the previous dslr went kaput, and a graphics tablet. (My first Woot!) Both items are necessary for me to perpetuate my image as a starving artist, therefore neither of them are any good at grocery-providing.

But I made sushi for lunch today, so I can’t be hurting for groceries that much, can I? The roll would likely have been +50 tasty if I had some fresh asparagus, but as it was it was pretty much really delicious. The miso dressing on the spinach is from a recipe I already posted.

Sushi rice
1/2 c. sushi rice
1/2 c. water
1 T. rice vinegar
1 t. sugar
1/2 t. kosher salt
1 T. mirin

  • Rinse rice 4 or 5 times, until water runs mostly clear. Drain well each time.
  • Quickly bring rice to a boil, and then cover and let simmer. Cook about 15 minutes. Leave rice covered and remove from heat. Let sit for about 10 minutes.
  • Combine vinegar, sugar, salt, and mirin in a small bowl, and mix well.
  • Uncover rice, and move to large bowl. Lightly fan while combining with vinegar mixture. Mix gently. Fan until rice comes to room temperature.
  • If not going to use rice immediately, cover bowl with a cloth. Do not refrigerate.

    A recent promotion and raise will perhaps aid in the grocery-buying, so that I can continue my kitchen-based experiments. As well as purchase some much-needed art supplies to continue work on my comic book. It has 3 completed pages, and a nearly finished script.

    Me = Nerd

  • June 1st, 2008

    Hold it up high to the light and let it grow.

    Posted by LA in Comic Books

    I don’t know why I haven’t seriously pursued this before.

    I’m going to start working on a comic book. Nothing amazing or ground-breaking I’m sure. But mine.
    Well, I guess I technically started working on it this afternoon. I spent about an hour searching for my sketchbooks and prismas after I got home from work.

    That’s all, really.