Roll your own at home with a kit from Sushi Confidential
Set that puzzle aside. It’s time to get your fingers in some sticky Japanese rice and roll your way to happiness.
Sushi Confidential, which has locations in Campbell and San Jose, is offering a sushi-making kit with all the ingredients needed to make sushi at home.
Follow the Youtube how-to that chef-founder Randy Musterer created with his own family while sheltering in place at their home. Each kit ($99) makes approximately eight to 10 rolls and includes pre-made sushi rice, avocado, cucumber, nori/seaweed wrap, a sushi rolling mat and crab mix, spicy crab mix and spicy tuna.
You also get four sauces and all the garnish and toppings, like green onion, jalapeno, tobiko, sesame seeds, macadamia nuts, tempura crunch, wasabi and ginger. Craving more fish? For an additional $25, they’ll add four pieces each of salmon, tuna and cooked shrimp.
DETAILS >> The kits are available at Sushi Confidential Campbell at 247 E. Campbell Ave., or you can call 408-596-5554 to order.
Aperitifs support restaurants
If your favorite fine dining restuarant had its own house vermouth or other aperitif, what would it taste like?
Haus, an aperitif maker in Healdsburg, has collaborated on a line of aperitifs with restaurants across the country, including two in San Francisco, to help support those restaurants and their employees during COVID-19.
Working with Brandon Jew of Mister Jiu’s and Sara and Evan Rich of Rich Table, Haus’ winemaker Woody Hambrecht created all-natural aperitifs to reflect each restaurant’s culinary approach.
The Rich Table aperitif is made with herbaceous shiso, commonly found on the restaurant’s menu, accented by citrus and fragrant spices. For the Mister Jiu’s aperitif, Hambrecht went warm and smoky, with black cardamom, lapsang tea, spicy ginger and floral osmanthus. Perfect for sipping. Add sparkling wine, lemon peel and a few dashes of bitters and you’re set cocktail-wise.
The low-alcohol-by-volume aperitifs, which are sold in sets of two for $80, are handcrafted with fruits, herbs and botanicals in Sonoma County. Pre-order directly from the restaurants at www. drink.haus/the-restaurant-project. Restaurants immediately receive 100% of the profits. Products start shipping in mid-may.
“Like millions of Americans around the country, we’re desperate to help restaurants and their employees,” said Haus co-founder and CO-CEO Helena Price Hambrecht in a news release. “We realized that the existing options — like gift cards or take out — simply weren’t sustainable or scalable. By creating a high quality culinary product and selling it online, we’re glad we can help restaurants receive financial support from their fans and patrons across the country.”
The Restaurant Project, as it’s called, launched with nine restaurant partners, including Kismet and Hippo in Los Angeles and Èlephante in Santa Monica. Haus will launch a second round of partners in a few weeks. The project will run for as long as restaurants are impacted by COVID-19.
But wait, there’s more
Find details on scores more Bay Area restaurants that are offering takeout, curbside and home delivery options at bayareane.ws/takeout.