I've made norimaki like the recipe on SBS food - http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/norimaki-nori-rolls

I've also used beans cooked the same way as the carrot in that recipe instead of the kampyo, but never avocado

This video made me want to make them again, but I haven't had time yet.

Seems the entire hobbit company save one are for comedy relief. Hope I'm wrong. Can't remember one goofball in the book

Well - to be perfectly fair - very few of the 13 dwarves had any kind of role at all in the book. The only major exception was Thorin - who was given a very stubborn/arrogant/long-winded role integral to the end of the story.

Aside from that the dwarves only had VERY minor roles that hardly ever showed up.
Balin was sort of a friend/mentor role as he was the one who was most friendly to Bilbo. He also was sort of a 'background' teller as he was the oldest and had been around a lot. Also he was lookout. Bombur was a comic-relief useless fat load whose incompetence & weight caused problems. Fili and Kili were the 'young' dwarves but didn't do hardly anything. Dori a couple of times ended up carrying Bilbo around on his back or by his legs and whined about it. Ori, Nori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur or Dwalin hardly did a thing at all. By and large, the entire company of dwarves were nothing but a bunch of hostages that had to be rescued. They were captured by trolls, captured by goblins, captured by wolves, captured by spiders, captured by elves, and then cringed behind rocks as Bilbo faced Smaug.

I knew this was going to have to happen though. You can't have a group of 13 dwarves on the big-screen for 2+ hours and have only two or three of them with a personality. I knew that PJ was going to give each of the dwarves a 'character' to play which would go WAY beyond what was provided in the book. So I'm not surprised by this at all. Neither should anyone else. It was inevitable that the dwarves (except Thorin) would probably end up having comic roles just so they weren't entirely without purpose. It will be odd, and seem out of step with the book but there really isn't anything else that can be done. The dwarves have to have SOMETHING to do, or they might as well just have Bilbo and Thorin haul around 12 logs.

if you've ever eaten dried cat food because you were a lonely child and your grandmother's cats were your only friends and you tried to assimilate their ways, then you'd know that it tastes like a lot like nori.

During the opening segments of this, it is almost reminiscent of the chuck noris kinda jokes...keep that in mind when watching it and chuckle silently (at about the 2-3 min marker when its talking about all the stuff he stands for

Pretty cool stuff Atara. BUT!!!

Yeah the Japanese eat it, but that doesn't mean the American versions are any good. Tell an Italian Chef to make a sushi and it would be the same result.

If you want an authentic traditional Japanese meal you would either have to go all the way to Japan or goto one of those high end Japanese restaurants near Columbus circle or midtown in NYC.

Because any other 'Japanese sushi bars' they've got here are run by either Taiwanese, Koreans or Malaysians. And they don't know what they're doing... I mean sure it's still better than something that I made myself but shit, bad is bad.





A good example would be this video right here. PERSONALLY, I wouldn't eat the roll made in this video. Looks disgusting. Alton may be following the exact recipe from a great Sushi chef or something. But the problem with that method is that even if things go wrong, you wouldn't know the difference.

Wayyyy too much rice on the nori. and they've been cooked all the way, which isn't the right kind of rice for making sushi. Oh and Nori itself is too firm. Has to be crispier and drier than that otherwise it's too tough and won't fall apart even when chewed. As soon as you bite down on that roll the whole nori piece will stick to the roof of your mouth.

A lot of people use unseasoned unroasted Nori, which is much tougher than roasted Nori. That's why moms usually purchase regular Nori and roast it themselves to get the right consistency. Plus, you won't have to worry about nori getting too crispy because all you have to do is put some water/rice vinegar on it and it gets tough again (Korean version uses sesame oil)

And wtf was that about 'it's easier to take rice off the roll than to add some later'???? WHERE THE FUCK DID HE COME UP WITH THAT??? WHO TOLD HIM THAT CRAP????

I may sound like a smug bastard right now. Go ahead and ask the next Japanese person that you know. Ask them if they wanna eat that crap shown in the video.

Ha, chuck noris