Whats the deal with seaweed? Can I eat sushi?

[kjones1]

Does anyone know if seaweed products are okay? My brother is in an organic cooking school and said that these products are great to detox the body. Im not looking to eat pure seaweed but what about sushi. Can people eat things like cucumber rolls. Just seaweed, white rice, and cucumbers?


Im not sure this question should be here or in the alternative section. What has anyone heard that this type of food does help/detox? Any results with it for IC? Thanks

[2flyingdogs]

Sushi is a little tricky. In order to make the rice sticky enough to make a roll out of it, they usually add a small amount of vinegar. I found a sushi place that does not add very much, so I can tolerate small amounts with prelief or baking soda. The other ingredients seem to be fine (for me).

I have eaten seaweed in sushi and in soups and have never had a problem with it. I don't know about it detoxing the body, but it does seem to boost my immune system. The type that I have had in soup is called wakame. I don't know about other detox foods or supplements, so I can't help you there.

[shannydu]

I have had sushi several times and have not had a problem with it, just have to watch the add ons, such as sauces. I have a mild cause of IC, or at least I think I do, but I have not had big problems after eating sushi.

Shannon

[loro]

i make my own sushi but it is tricky. I don't use vinagar and I will telll you i cant have any of the sauces because they are legume based. soy sauce is fermented legumes as is tempora because it uses soy sauce as a base. So I start with making my sauce. The night before I have sushi I make my rice and I don't add oil or butter to keep it from sticking because you want sticky rice. I put that in the fridge overnight. Then I make steak for dinner add any usual spices such as tyme ,sage ,rosemarry that night and make sure to pan cook it so that i have the juices of the meat. This is where the soy sauce will come from. So i put the steak juces in a sauce pan and I get a yellow or red bell pepper, dill, chives and ginger I grind it all up in a food procesor and then i add half of it to my stake sauce, and simmer so it carmlizes sp adding salt as needed. Then i add the uncooked sauce and mix it up. It should taste sweet and spicy with that hint of soy taste.

next I get cucumber, carrot and avacado, you can omit or add any veggies you want. I slice the carrot with a peeler all the way so i have all thses thin flat slices.
Then i slice them in 4 inch sections and stack them on top of eachother to cut into slices.

Next cut the cucumber and peel it, cut it in half and spoon out the seeds. then cut into thin slices the same length as the carrot.

Then cut the avacado in half de pit it and make slices accross and side turn the skin out and you will have thin slices to lay on the rools.

I use shrimp or sushi grade tuna for my meat and I sear the tunna in a pan with some ginger powder or I cook the shrimp up in a pan.

NOW it is ready to rool and that is why sushi is all in the preperation.

Take a small bowl and fill it with water for your hands.
get your rice and set it aside
you will need a bamboo place mat or shushi roller (same thing)
cover the roller in plasic wrap
place your seeweed nori wraper on the rooler
put your rice in the center of the wrapper
dip your fingers in the water and spread the rice out thin leaving an inch on the bottom of the wrapper so you can close it
now lay your veggies avacado and choice of fish in the center and spoon some of the sacue in a line, rember to leave yourself some to dip in.

Turn the wrapper around so that the one inch space is opposite you.
take the bottom of the roller and roll to the end of where you laid your filling and cup it and pinch with your hands, then slightly lift up and pinch again till you have rolled it to the end.
dip your fingers in the water and wet the end of the rool
slice your rool into bite sizes and serve with your sauce.

I know it sounds like a lot but if you prep it the day before it is not too bad.

[kjones1]

Loro,

Thank you so much for the recipe. I think I am going to make it a big party. Im going to invite my friends over to make sushi and try out your recipe. It sounds so yummy. My brother is a vegan and in organic cooking. I bet you would love it too!


--Kelly


P.S What other fish could you use? Tuna? Salmon? Eel? Thats for me not my brother. Im not sure if I can eat avacado either. I miss it.

[loro]

Oh no problem have fun making it .
If you use other fish and you don't cook it you need to go to a shushi market.You could use Salmon,mahi,tuna,Eel, and shrimp. You need shushi grade fish so you don't get sick.If there is a shushi in your local market you can normally ask them for a cut of the fish they are using the will sell it to you by the lb. hope this helps