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Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
What's the difference between sashimi and sushi? Or are they two completely unrelated things?

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
In Japanese cuisine, sushi is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish, various meats, and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes.[1] In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an archaic grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, "sushi" means "it's sour".[2]

Sushi is with rice, sashimi is raw fish alone.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
Right on! I love salmon sashimi the best, and as for sushi, I like tuna and roe. (You realize of course, I rarely get to eat it). :-)

I know, Costa, and you can believe what you want too! Not baiting here (No pun intended), we just all have our opinions. I was just pointing out that you can in fact get salmonella from seafood.

I DID get sick from eating bad seafood. I put my fork down and said something wasn't right. My ex-BF kept eating because he was stoopid. I started throwing up back home, but survived. He wound up in the hospital with severe gastroentrinitis. He was so sick, it was a while before either of us ate fish again.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Obviously people eat sushi all the time and most people don't get sick from it. I don't think anyone is disputing that. Most fish in sushi is high quality. However, aren't you more likely to get sick if poor quality food is undercooked?

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
I would think so, Jimmer. It depends on where the fish was caught, I'd think first and foremost. Then it depends on the handling and age of the fish. My ex-BF I were 19 at the time (we lived together, I'd left home when I was 15), and we were ignorant of asking the proper questions. I can't remember the name of the restaurant where we ate, and we were too cool to worry about suing or anything (we were deep in the grunge phase). Although the doctors DID want to know where we ate. I don't know where they went from there.

*sigh* I've have a lot of life-learning and book experience since then!

If any of you are really into sushi, pick up a book called "The Zen of Fish" by Trevor Corson. I signed on to review it before it was released (I still have the incorrected proof copy). You'll seriously learn everything you need to know, not only about the fish, but also the making of sushi rice, miso and everything else remotely related to it. I should re-read it, but it's a heavy read. It's definitely been released by now.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
it's one thing to go to a sushi place and eat raw fish. If i go to a seafood restaurant and order cod, snapper, sole ect and it's undercooked..i ain't calling it sushi; i am calling it undercooked and will not be pleased!

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
ITA, Texannie. I don't like it overcooked, but definitely not raw. I do like medium salmon, but that's about as uncooked as I go unless it's sushi. For chicken and turkey - totally cooked. For beef - medium rare.

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 9:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
It was an interesting show yesterday, Stephen really showed his talents. Sadly, Carla showed her lack of talent. I am not a genious, but I know how to make ice cream freeze - salt and ice, if they had that much ice available, there was no reason not to put the yougurt in thin cookie sheets or plastic bags and freeze it with ice all around it.
As to making a dry cake, there is no excuse.

It seems like both teams worked with the same problems. When you run a restaurant, you will have problems and you will have to solve them. It is called real life. When you can't make what you want, you make something else. I was making cupcakes for a party the other day and the oven broke and my convection oven is tiny, I had to bake in a small pie dish, then cut up the cake to look like square cupcakes. If every thing crumbed up, I would have chopped it up and mixed in the icing and called it something else.

Leah and Hossea are off their game big time.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
You can also get worms from raw fish. Just FYI.

Biginjapan
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07-23-2005

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biginjapan a private message Print Post    
And remember this is tv and Carla is good tv....Radhika is not...

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
It was just strange to me to see Carla act that way with the judges. She's never done anything like that before. Besides, it she's into the "love" it's really not going to help the diners "feel it" if she has no contact with them. It totally made no sense to me and that's why I wondered "what she was smoking." It was just odd behavior for her that we haven't seen before.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 7:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That is why it is important that it is good fish if you eat it raw.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 1:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
I agreed with you, Watching2! Maybe she was getting frustrated because her food is never coming on top, and her mood is showing.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 2:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I hope each and every one of you are happy!!! All this talk of sushi is making me have to go eat sushi tonight!!!

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Hope you enjoy it Lexie! I'm not a big sushi person. I've had it, but it's not anything I crave. So you can have my portions, OK? :-)

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Oh sorry Jodie - I think you might have something there. It seems like all she gets praised for is pastry. It was like she just lost it for a few minutes there!

BTW - I got food poisoning from eating fish. It was in Venice, Italy though, so who knows where it came from! They served it in the restuarant of our motel, so I thought it would be OK. Live and learn! I was only 16 at the time and all they warned us about was eating the fresh fruit and vegies due to their poor irrigation systems. Good thing what I remember most about Venice isn't the food poisoning, but I'll never forget it totally! Yuck!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Well, I took one for the TVCH team and suffered through a dinner of edamame, noodle salad, a tuna roll and a salmon roll.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
We are so lucky to have you for the heavy lifting, Lexie!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 8:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
I think Carla's strategy with the "feeling the love" thing was to distinguish herself as an eccentric contestant and get kept that way by the producers. Looks like it worked!

Or maybe she has some strange food fetish, you never know!

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
For some reason last night, I had a desire for rack of lamb and went off and made it for myself. I must have been channelling Arianne because it was done perfectly.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
But Arianne didn't cook lamb perfectly!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
I adore lamb but live alone so what do you other singles do about that lamb craving? I can occasionally get ground lamb and love doing patties on my George Foreman grill. Other suggestions?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 5:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yeah Ariane had a good lamb night, but only because everyone helped her and a bad night when she wasn't helped much at all.

TNT.. Greek or Persian restaurant for lamb.

We also have a Muslim Chinese restaurant that has lots of lamb dishes but no pork. I wasn't overly impressed with the lamb in the Chinese dishes but they make an wonderful glazed walnut shrimp.

As for good fish.. for sashimi you need good fish AND meticulous preparation.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 12:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
TnT, one of the grocery store near me sometimes has sales for lamb shoulder chops. I will buy a few pounds, and cook them in my slow cooker. I mix Liptons roasted garlic onion mix soup, mixed with two cups of water, and then add to it a sauce of some kind - your choice. I get this sauce that's sold in Loblaws or No Frills in Ontario that's a President's Choice brand Greek blend - it's really a marinade of olive oil, lemon and oregano. And I add a couple of chopped garlic and onions to the mix as well. Then I cook it on low for 9 hours. It's a tougher part of the lamb, but slow cooking it makes it very tender so it falls off the bone. Then I store it in containers in my freezer. I love eating it with rice, myself.

As Seamonkey said, you could also get an order of take-out, something like Lamb souvlaki from a greek restaurant - so good.

Mmmm, now I'm dying to eat lamb. Middle Eastern restaurants (Persian, as SM said) also have lamb and mutton and goat on the menus, as well as Caribbean places.

SO as a single girl myself, my strategy is to always make a big batch of something, and then freeze it in portions.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Sea - Neither my fav Greek nor my fav Persian place offers lamb! Both are mom and pop budget spots so I need to go further afield to follow your good suggestion.

Jodie - that sounds better than excellent!