I don’t want to ride a donkey down there, but also am car skeptical. Maybe high speed commuter rail in the canyon could be artfully and sensibly done for our weird superfuture. I bet there would be amazing archaeological and geological discoveries in the construction process! With the rail system in place it would be foolish not to build some kind of sustainable coworking space with integrated living quarters and it would be trivial to stock a bodega with wholesome, all-natural foods and beverages. Hiking supplies too!
It tastes just like sushi because it’s the same exact ingredients you would put in a regular roll. Obviously the cheese is extra, but you’ll find it (or cream cheese) in the more elaborate sushi rolls restaurants offer. A basic California maki for example can have cucumber and mango in it.
The nice thing about this dish is you can literally use any combination of ingredients you want, just like you have tons of different rolls you can choose from at a sushi restaurant.
I think the reaction comes from the baking part, not so much the ingredients. Imagine someone saying beef tartar wedged between two balls of uncooked dough tastes like a hamburger. You’d probably be sceptical too.
Oh man, wait till you get a taste of Asian Hot Shrimp Salad. It was the first dish with hot/warm mayo I ever tasted, and it’s amazing! Also, japanese mayo is not as sour and tangy as regular mayo, so it works with heat well. Check out takoyaki and okonomiyaki as well, which are both hot dishes with mayo.
Fair, but the baking part is really more like heating a bunch of already cooked ingredients. So there’s not much of a change with the elements of the ingredients and the heat from the oven just fuses them into an integrated dish that you can pick up with chopsticks. The only thing that drastically changes is the mozarella cheese that melts. Otherwise, the entire dish stays as is and can technically be eaten even without baking.
So the analogy would instead be like assembling a bread bun, cooked beef patty, some veggies, and heating it in the oven for a couple of minutes. It’s already a burger before putting it into the oven, and it’s the same burger, just toastier and maybe crispier, afterwards.
I’m proud of you. I’m sure it’s delicious. I have no doubt that you worked really hard on this, and the results were rewarding. I hope you enjoy the fruits of your labor. I even upvoted you.
My only suggestion is you might want to keep this one to yourself, and maybe really close friends and family. The world just won’t understand.
I might go so far to say the pictures should be able to do it more justice if you’re putting this out in the world. It does not look like it would pass muster for mass appeal as shown.aybe some bisection shots, or dressed up or something.
That’s why I didn’t post it in !foodporn. I didn’t exactly plan to post the pictures at the time I made it so didn’t really make it “pretty”. I was also planning to add a bisection photo but realized all the pictures I took had the layers messed up when I cut the piece out, so not worth posting.
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