Sushi

Wow, this is a flashback! My heart does skip a beat when I find photos of lunches made in our old kitchen. *sigh*.

These were made for a take a plate party with some friends and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try out some cute cutters I'd gotten from Bento USA.

I cheated & used our Sush-ezi for the teriyaki chicken, avocado & carrot sushi.

Oh how I miss that giant bench!

I do love the little mould that comes with the cutter set. Just perfect!

And I made the kids ones with no fillings.

As you can see the cheese cracked quite badly.

And there was a lot of off-cuts.

Back to rolling the grown up sushi.

One day I will get the perfect centred sushi :-)

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product.

Re-Purpose . . . Sush-Ezi

In our D.I.N.K. days, hubby & I loved sushi & would make it around once a month. Despite that we never quite managed to master the art of rolling the sushi, so one Christmas, Santa brought us a Sush-Ezi. I did pull it out recently to actually make sushi again when  I couldn't fine my sushi mat, but in the past year I've used it more for other purposes. . .

Yesterday I shared my ANZAC biscuits that I shaped using the Sush-Ezi. Today I thought I'd do a double re-purpose. Did you notice the mystery roll in between the two ANZAC rolls yesterday?. . .




How many of you have a Tupperware Jel-Ring, or attended a Jel-Ring Tupperware party? I went to one a few years ago & we made two dishes. One was a Black Forrest Cake, the other was pizza. I searched the net for the 'real' Jel-ring recipe, but never really found it. I found all sorts of variations, so this is what I ended up making.

 I used about half a loaf of bread, crusts removed & cut in half (rectangles). Spread one side with tomato or pizza paste. Oil the Sush-Ezi (I learned that one the hard way). Lay in a half slice of bread, a half slice of ham (square ham, cut into rectangles) and a half slice of cheese (I used the processed square stuff, cut into rectangles again). Lather, rinse, repeat :-)

I ended up with about 5 layers in total. You could refrigerate this for a while to allow it to firm up, or compress it with the Sush-Ezi. I compressed & then wrapped in Glad wrap (cling film) and froze.

I then proceeded to forget about it until I cleaned out the freezer & here we are, however many months later - oops ;-P

Straight from the freezer, use a bread knife to cut into discs. Some of the pieces broke apart while being sliced, others had a helping hand afterwards. . .

Raw & ready to bake.

I use aluminium foil because I hate washing up :-)

Spray lightly with oil, bake at 180 degrees (C) for around 10 minutes

These probably could have been baked a little longer to give them some more colour & crunch, but we were hungry . . .

 . . .and the cheese had reached maximum 'oozy-ness'

These are just the right size for little hands. . .

 . . .and little mouths








~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on personal experience with the product.

Frozen ANZACs

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

From For the Fallen, by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Today is Remembrance Day.

This is not a day for fun & frivolity, but for quiet retrospect & respect for the sacrifice made by those who have fallen during war.





Today I made ANZAC biscuits. Well, I cooked them. I made them a few months (?) ago & found them at the back of the freezer.

 I had 2 logs of ANZAC mixture which I formed using my Sush-ezi, wrapped in Glad wrap (cling film) and froze. One log I put in the fridge last night to thaw, while the other I cut straight from the freezer.

The fridge defrosted log was easy to carve. . .

  . . . but it did squish a little on the base meaning the biscuits weren't quite circular

The frozen log was harder to carve. . .

. . .  & I ended up using a bread knife to 'saw' it instead

 I baked at 180-ish degrees (C) for about 10 minutes - pretty darn good timing for the defrosted ones

 Probably a little too short for the frozen ones, but they still worked out OK (I like mine really golden &  a bit crunchy)

Close up of the frozen batch

Close up of the defrosted batch

I think I preferred the defrosted batch, although they were both really nice. Warm from the oven I think the frozen ones had a little more of a rubbery texture, not a soft, uncooked texture, but rubbery. . . only slightly though & by the time they'd cooled completely I was hard pressed to taste any difference at all.

Remember Remembrance Day

 ~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on personal experience with the product.