*** Quoting George Pope from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

CS> Butter melons are starting to show, and later Satsumo Ito (a versi
CS> and we are long past Burdock root season.  Watermelon is in full flow.

GP> You got room to grow watermelons in JAPAN????

;-)

BTW, found the Nigiri-Zushi which isnt made in my area, and indeed a
variatioon ¨uses sashimi on it.  It's the one normally with no nori wrapper
and instead a ¨sort of hand pressed item (stick sushi rice in hand, fold
hand to make a ball, ¨place topping on it, and tie lightly with strip of
seaweed).  It;s possible ¨Cindy had this type.

CS> Fish is also seasonal in aspects and it's Gindai time I think (for

GP> I can ask my Japanese friend, but she'd probably need it in Kanji. . .

Not to worry.  We have 'local names' and that may not be the right name in
¨Japanese for this fish.  Just the one we use here for it.  It's a
snapperish ¨looking thing.  Could even be the Tagalog name for it
.

GP> I'm getting a couple whole Sockeye salmon later this month!

GP> (maybe I'll try my hand at sashimi!)

GP> I have a kit to make make rolls!

It's not all that hard to make.  The hand type above is deadon easy to
make.  ¨Just remember the rice has to me medium or short grain (calrose is
a good one ¨to use and easy to get outside of Japan).  Has to be 'sticky
rice'.

                                       xxcarol

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