CHEF ILONA: SUSHI DIP
This season, I want you to think about making sushi into something very accessible even to the picky eaters in your life.
Sushi is a dish that often requires a significant number of preparations in advance and myriad of highly perishable ingredients.
My creamy sushi party dip significantly reduces the amount of time required to prepare sushi rolls, while still evoking a similar note of the dish in a far less demanding approach. The base is made with cream cheese, flavoured with wasabi and soya sauce. The base is subsequently topped with familiar sushi ingredients.
I like to buy hot smoked salmon when it’s on sale and stash it in the freezer for when I make sushi at home, so I am using it as my seafood component on my sushi dip. If you prefer surimi crab, sashimi grade salmon/tuna, or even teriyaki chicken, make the substitution. The flavours here are meant to evoke the flavour memories of eating those massive fusion style sushi rolls you get when you go out for cheap and cheerful maki.
When serving this dip, it is a playful move to serve with a crispy rice snack/cracker to complete the sushi roll concept.
If you are taking this dip to a potluck, I would recommend spreading the cream cheese layer on your serving dish of choice and the rest of the ingredients minus the sriracha mayonnaise; plastic wrap will destroy your creative efforts as undoubtedly the sriracha mayo will get squished all over everything else.
Creamy Sushi Party Dip
1 package (250g) cream cheese, softened
1 tbsp wasabi
1 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 cup hot smoked salmon, flaked
1 avocado, cubed
½ English cucumber, made into ribbons with a peeler rolled up into pinwheels
¼ cup pickled ginger, julienne or as is
¼ cup green onion, sliced on a bias
Sriracha mayo for a zig zag garnish
2 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted for garnish
¼ cup seaweed (nori), cut into strips (julienne), for garnish
Rice crackers or other crispy snacks to serve
Instructions
In a large bowl, combine softened cream cheese with the soy sauce, wasabi, and vinegar. Spread out onto a serving dish with as much whimsy as desired.
Next arrange the hot smoked salmon, avocado and cucumber ribbons, pickled ginger and green onion.
To finish the dish, apply a zig zag pattern of sriracha mayo across the dip and scatter with toasted sesame seeds.
Serve with rice crackers or your favourite crunchy dipper.
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slow dancing barefoot in the kitchen with katsuki
⋆ pairing: k. bakugou x reader
⋆ wc: 600±
⋆ cool, cool. but adult!pro hero!katsuki isn't all bark and no vulnerability. sometimes i think we don't give him enough credit or look far enough ahead to a time and place where his devotion to personal growth extends beyond his achievements or hero ranking. what if, with time and maturity, adult!pro hero!katsuki shows his goofy side and laughs with you while watching try not to laugh cat videos on youtube? to be with you, he's willing to lose...
⋆ soundtrack: these arms of mine || otis redding
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Katsuki stood over the freshly cut veggies simmering in the wok as you stirred the sugar into the rice vinegar for the sushi rice.
You hummed along with your favorite playlist as it droned in the background.
In his flow state, your otherwise hot-headed husband spoke calmly. “Don’t forget the splash of sake.” Cooking was his therapy, his creative outlet.
“Shit, thanks for reminding me baby,” you said, grabbing one of the bottles of rice wine from the fridge. But not just any of them. The right one for sushi vinegar - the ginjo. Katsuki was very particular about which types of sake he used in various dishes and recipes. “Still not used to making it this way.”
“Put a drizzle in the skillet too while you’re at it?”
You mostly covered the mouth of the bottle with your thumb and leaned over his arm slightly to shake several drops into the wok. It bubbled and hissed, the sweet aroma mixing with the hot sesame oil and crisp vegetables before steaming off the searing Teflon. Just by breathing it in you could taste the toe-curling umami on the back of your tongue.
“Fuckin perfect, baby. Damn, that’s hot,” Katsuki said, flipping the contents up and over themselves once, twice before setting it back down on the circle of yellow flames on the gas stovetop.
“Well don’t touch it, genius." You winked at him from the corner of your smiling eye.
He turned the heat down and leaned in close, his chin resting on your shoulder, his breath tickling your cheek. “I ain’t talkin bout the food.”
You chuckled, raising your shoulder towards your ear in a weak attempt to fend off his advances. As the contents in the wok simmered, your husband hugged you from behind, watching as you broke off 2”x2” squares of konbu to marinate in the sushi vinegar - just like he taught you.
After a brief pause between songs, Otis Redding’s voice suddenly saturated the room. Katsuki’s arms squeezed tighter around you as he began to sway. You leaned back against him as you closed your eyes, opening them only when he twirled you around to face him.
You giggled quietly and took his proffered hand, gracefully following him to the middle of the kitchen floor. You slid your right hand into his left as he placed his other on your lower back and fastened you to him.
Without a word, your bodies swayed as you followed his lead. Cheek pressing against his hard, thrumming chest; your bare feet slotted between each other on the cool, bamboo floor.
“I’ve missed you, babe,” he murmured, pressing his lips against the top of your head.
“You work too much, Katsuki…” you sighed, your eyes closed, focusing instead on his scent and his voice. “...'n i miss you too.”
With his cheek pressed against your hair, he grumbled, “I know.”
Following his steps without missing a slow-dancing beat, you looked up at him. With your chin resting on his chest you said, “M’so happy we got to make dinner together tonight.”
“Me too, babe,” he said, looking down at you with his crimson eyes full of soft admiration. Lowering his head and voice to your ear, he said, “Maybe that’s not all we can make together tonight, hm?”
Hiding your burning face from his intensity you pressed your cheek against his chest again, thinking I owe you, Otis.
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サンドイッチの材料だけど、パンじゃなくお米を使って、巻き寿司?それともキンパ?を作りました。
とっても簡単に作れて見た目も可愛いので、大量に作ってピクニックに持って行ってみんなとシェアするのにピッタリです!(絶賛名前募集中)🙇🏻♀️
この↑お方も、今回は友情出演しております。是非見てやってください! 😊
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I made rice rolls with sandwich ingredients (ham, cheese, lettuce, cucumber, avocado.) It’s wrapped with a sheet of egg so it looks very cute and colorful. Perfect to bring to a picnic and share with everyone!
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