The next morning, Thomas woke up again at 6:00 AM and completed his usual morning routine of fixing his bed, taking a shower, brushing his teeth, and checking his still quite precious hair for cow licks.
Afterwards, he headed into the kitchen like usual and opened the fridge, seeing the thin salmon and tuna fillets as well as crab, lobster, and other seafood.
Unfortunately, he didn't have time to prepare anything that fancy, but he took out some salmon, tune, and artificial crab, as well as cucumbers, avocado, and mayonnaise. Then, he went into the pantry and found the pack of large seaweed sheets that had a few left in it. Finally, he took out the bottle of rice vinegar from the sauce cabinet. Unfortunately, there wasn't very much left, but, fortunately, there should still be just enough.
He didn't have a wooden sushi rice bowl or tools, so he just used another large porcelain bowl instead.
Thomas proceeded to scoop out all the remaining rice that remained in the rice cooker from the previous night into the bowl. There were around four cups of rice left, so he used around four tablespoons of rice vinegar and added more as needed as he mixed the rice before leaving it to cool a bit more.
While he did this, he took out a cutting board, another bowl, and some Saran Wrap.
He didn't have a special sushi making kit or anything fancy, so he needed to use his regular kitchen supplies.
Thomas cut the artificial crab into pieces before transferring it into the other bowl with some mayonnaise and mixed it with a spoon.
After mixing the crab for a while, Thomas mixed the sushi rice around a little bit more before laying Saran Wrap down on the counter. Then, he washed the cucumbers and cut them into slices before cutting the avocado into some long rectangular chunks. Afterwards, he transferred them onto another plate he took out of the cabinet before taking the thin salmon and tuna fillets and washing and drying them before placing them into the cutting board.
By now, all the rice had sufficiently cooled, so Thomas scooped out some and placed it onto the Saran Wrap. Then, he placed a large sheet of seaweed on top of it. On top of the seaweed, Thomas placed the strips of sliced cucumbers, avocado, and artificial crab mixed with mayonnaise before carefully rolling it up. He smeared some mayonnaise on the edge of the seaweed too just in case to hold the edges of it together and stop the roll from falling apart. Finally, he cut the roll into individual pieces.
He repeated this two more time, using up all the remaining sheets to seaweed he had and packing the rolls into insulated metal lunch boxes.
Next, he sliced up the salmon and tuna into strips, shaped the rice, and put the slices of salmon and tuna on top of the beds of rice and into the lunch boxes as well.
In some separate smaller containers, Thomas packaged some sushi soy sauce, as well as wasabi some ginger in case Elaina might like it. He gave her a bit of extra wasabi since remembered her saying that she liked spicy things. He also made sure to pack a pair of metal chopsticks for Elaina this time. Since he had some extra time, he also cut up some cilantro and chives and packaged that along with some sesame oil in two other containers before packing the lunch boxes into the lunch bags with another bottle of cold Snapple as he had the previous day.
Since he still had some left over rice, he decided to quickly cut some spam, wash some peas, and beating some eggs in a bowl to make fried rice.
After heating up the wok with some oil, he put in the spam to cook it slightly before adding in the rice, peas, and pouring in the beaten eggs. After letting it cook for a little while, he poured in a little bit of light and dark soy sauce and crackling in just a bit of black pepper.
He mixed all the ingredients in the wok together until everything finished cooking. Once it was, he turned off the fire and scooped some out into a small paper bowl for himself.
Seeing the time, 8:15, he quickly grabbed a plastic spoon and rushed out the door after cleaning up the kitchen, jumped on his bike, and rode to school while eating the fried rice in a very unsafe manner.
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I've made California rolls before, but I've never actually prepared nigiri or sashimi, so don't hold anything involving that prep work to me. If any of you guys have before, please feel free to give me some advice to make the story more accurate in the future.
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Ironclad Love
HumorElaina, a girl born without arms, needs to use prosthetics metal arms for her whole life and has been a target of harassment and bullying for as long as she could remember due to her unique disability. Thomas, a boy in her class, loses a bet with hi...
