After the parody of Super Tuesday...

So, I, like many thousands of others today, went to attend the caucus. Now, being from CA, I've never attended a caucus, only a formal primary. You actually vote confidentially, formally- LEGALLY. The rules of a caucus are that you show up. You don't have to be registered, you don't have to be legally able to vote, you just show up. No one checks. Over half the people that showed up for the caucus here in the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis were not naturalized citizens (12-14 years, a test, pledges, etc, etc). That means that there votes were illegal. They were cheat votes. And all of them voted for the upstart, mud-slinging, doesn't-know-what-healthcare-is, please-let-the-GOP-win, democratic candidate.

I think you know who.

And what I don't understand is: people here in Minnesota vote for candidates not for lowering health care. We've got more concentrated populations of MS, MD, CF, etc, etc, etc, but especially celiac disease. Universal health care would allow more doctors to be attending to us. They would have more funding for clinical research, which would find us the cure that all of us know is out there.

So, that being said, please consider that when you vote next.

And now that I have ranted on about my miserable experience with the under-staffed, overrun, illegalities of the Minnesota caucuses, I'll give you the recipe for the meal that I craved to soothe my nerves.


GF California Roll Sushi Rice Salad

1 ripe Haas avocado, sliced
1 lb fish of your choice, cooked and chunked (I recommend crab, imitation crab, scallops, lox, or smoked salmon.)
2 sheets of roasted nori, torn into 1" strips (sushi-grade seaweed/kelp)
4C sushi-grade (medium grain) rice, cooked
1/2C white, granulated sugar
1/2C sake or rice cooking wine (cooking sherry will NOT work here)
1/4C rice vinegar
1/4C sesame oil

1. In a 2-3 quart saucepan, mix the sake/rice wine, sugar, rice vinegar, and sesame oil.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes (you're making a glace' or glaze for the rice)
3. Allow this glaze to cool.
4. Mix in the cooked rice, throughly.
5. Toss in the avocado and fish.

I recommend serving this along with wasabi paste and soy sauce (stay tuned for how to make these goodies GF!) or with a ginger salad dressing like the one below, sesame goddess (ginger helps with digestion, particularly digesting bad news).



I also recommend hot or cold sake (this is Japanese rice wine) along side. My newest favorite is Fu-Ki sake. (BTW: it's pronounced "saw-kay")




Enjoy your goodies!
The Irish Lass