{"id":1140,"date":"2012-03-27T20:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2012-03-27T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:59:20","slug":"a-different-kind-of-sushi-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of sushi roll.."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know those times where it’s a horrible week and nothing’s going right… and it’s only Tuesday? Yep. Been one of those<\/strong> weeks. So I did what any other self-respecting 26 year old man would do:<\/p>\n

I made candy<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

Don’t tell me you didn’t see it coming. You should know Jason! well enough to know that’s where he’s gonna take it.<\/p>\n

I believe I mentioned it last week and briefly outlined my plan. I was going to put off my candy sushi-roll until next weekend, but I kinda needed something to keep me busy for the evening and pick up my spirits, so I stopped at the grocery store on the way home to do some shopping.<\/p>\n

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The ingredients!<\/p><\/div>\n

After some debate (with myself, which lasts surprisingly longer than you’d assume arguments with yourself should), I ultimately decided upon the above for my sushi-making awesomeness. It was basically decided by availability, with a dash of consideration for cost. I could<\/strong> buy imported Rice Krispies cereal, or I could buy store-brand frosted flakes. You can see which won.<\/p>\n

I won’t bore you with all the tiny details, but it basically goes like this:<\/p>\n

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Goo<\/p><\/div>\n

1. \u00a0Throw butter in a pan with marshmallows and stir ’em until you get a disgusting marshmallow goo.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Crush up some cereal (feel free to make Godzilla sound effects and laugh while doing this. Or not.. it’s entirely optional) and then throw the cereal bits in to the marshmallow mixture.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Stir it up until it’s all well and mixed, then stir it some more. Eyeball it and debate if you should throw in more cereal. Remember that you can’t remove cereal once mixed in, so decide against it.<\/p>\n

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Mmm...<\/p><\/div>\n

4. \u00a0Remember that you don’t own any silicone pans, mats, or anything else to put the mixture on. Consider a cookie sheet, and then remember that you don’t own cookie sheets.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Briefly wonder why you didn’t do step 4 before<\/strong> starting on this project. Stop caring and proceed to step 6.<\/p>\n

6. \u00a0Spread the mixture out on a pan you scrounge up from on top of your oven, covering it in foil and non-stick baking paper.<\/p>\n

7. \u00a0Throw all this horrible mess into the refrigerator to cool and go check your e-mail. Someone may have e-mailed you in the last 10 minutes, and it’s probably really<\/em> important.<\/p>\n

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Taking shape..<\/p><\/div>\n

8. \u00a0Find out no one e-mailed you. This probably makes sense, since you didn’t e-mail anyone recently, but don’t dwell on that for long. You’ve got stuff to do!<\/p>\n

9. \u00a0Do not<\/strong>, and I really do mean NOT<\/strong>, let the mixture completely cool. You want to mold it. So when it’s just cool enough to stop being sticky–and dear god is this stuff sticky–you can put the fillings on (I used melon cake and kit kat bars) and then roll it up. Measuring beforehand would be a good idea, but I don’t do stuff like that. I’m too cool to measure.<\/p>\n

11. \u00a0Now you’ll want to put this roll in the freezer. Yes, the freezer.<\/p>\n

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Please don't guess..<\/p><\/div>\n

12. \u00a0After it’s nice and solid, you’ll need to melt some chocolate. I recommend buying 3x more chocolate than you think you’ll need. A lot will get wasted in the coating process, and there’s no such thing as too much chocolate<\/em>, so it’s a win-win. I also recommend dark chocolate, since you want it to look like seaweed.<\/p>\n

13. \u00a0Thirteen is unlucky.<\/p>\n

14. \u00a0Pour it all over the thing until it starts looking obscene. You may not want to take pictures of this step, because it looks really bad and your imagination runs wild.<\/p>\n

15. \u00a0Finally, you’ll want to cut it up into little rounds, about 3\/4 of an inch to an inch. It should look something like…<\/p>\n

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Candy Sushi!<\/p><\/div>\n

… this bit of awesomeness. Unlike most of my other creations, I actually tasted this one (there was an ugly end piece that looked very un-sushi-like). I have to say that it came out pretty well. In the future, I’d probably want to crush up the cereal a bit finer, or find something a little whiter, but overall I’m happy with how it turned out! Will be bringing these to the office tomorrow.<\/p>\n

As for my personal life? Don’t ask. But at least my food extravaganza went well!<\/p>\n

Off to do the dishes and eventually get some sleep. More awesomeness awaits tomorrow, I’m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know those times where it’s a horrible week and nothing’s going right… and it’s only Tuesday? Yep. Been one of those weeks. So I did what any other self-respecting 26 year old man would do:<\/p>\n

I made candy!<\/p>\n

Don’t tell me you didn’t see it coming. You should know Jason! well enough to know that’s where he’s gonna take it.<\/p>\n

I believe I mentioned it last week and briefly outlined my plan. I was going to put off my candy sushi-roll until next weekend, but I kinda needed something to keep me busy for the evening and pick . . . → Read More: A different kind of sushi roll..<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}