Shades of Deadpool
I want sushi.
What kind?
No sushi grade fish/seafood? No smoked salmon? No asparagus? Don’t want to make tamago? The bacon’s frozen solid?
Well, what DO you have?
A couple of avocados in the fridge and three fake crab sticks in the freezer.
Sigh!!
Ok …. I CAN do this.
This is the internal conversation I had with myself.
Luckily, the crab sticks thawed quickly when I submerged the plastic freezer bag in cold water.
I had to make a quick batch of seasoned rice vinegar (6 tbsp rice vinegar, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tsp salt) cause I was almost out but otherwise, this is what I ended up with.
Four gunkan sushi (3 spicy crab stick, 1 guacamole) and Two crab stick and avocado temaki (hand rolls)
Prepping the strips of nori (1 1/2 inch or about 2 finger width) and the rice ovals (about a rounded soup spoon of rice) for the gunkan or battleship sushi
One crab stick, avocado and spicy Sriracha mayo futomaki (cause it was pretty fat)
Cooking is Fun ... Really!! 
What a wonderful idea. This looks great.
Thank you. It was tasty. There’s some sushi rice left which may end up a side for tomorrow’s peameal bacon roast. I wasn’t particularly energetic today.
https://www.theblackpeppercorn.com/2015/12/how-to-cook-a-whole-peameal-bacon-roast/
Innovative and tasty! Great thinking and internal dialogue with self always helps LOL!
When you live alone, you often talk to yourself. At least I don’t refer to myself in the 3rd person. 🙂
LOL! I am like you. I live alone and talk to myself too or actually to my inanimate furball Garfield LOL! It helps to gather our thoughts really. And yes, good to know we do not refer to selves as 3rd person ha ha!
Great job with the sushi! Looks professional. I’ve recently seen some rice forms to allow you to press the rice into the appropriate shape but I prefer the ones done by hand, like yours.
Thank you. Making the ovals by hand isn’t very difficult though you DO need to dampen your hands so that the rice doesn’t stick.
Looks great, especially as sushi from leftovers! I like maki even with cucumber and avocado alone…
Thank you for commenting. Simple ingredients can be quite satisfying too.
I thought you would be making California rolls! Your hand rolls are terrific – have to roll them this way one day.
I like California rolls but I went a different way. In fact, I wasn’t going to make rolls at all. Onigiri was going to be on the menu … maybe next time with some tuna salad inside.
That’s an idea – but then you can stick anything into onigiri, and it’s still great.
True.