PrintPhoto of the Day: Furikake French Fries
Jaden launches a campaign against the concept of hiding vegetables in your kids food with a recipe for Furikake French Fries. Furikake is a Japanese seasoning based on dried fish, seaweed, and sesame seeds. Jaden suggests using it on French fries to get kids used to seaweed—"THEN switch it up on them—sprinkle Furikake on steamed broccoli, spinach, tofu...whatever!"
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11 Comments:
This has got to be Jaden's #1 post...loved every word!
JEP at 6:06PM on 01/09/08
ooooh~ furikake? that's its name?
i love it, i just never knew the its japanese name
mochateri at 6:10PM on 01/09/08
What a great idea!! I love using furikake on just about everything. That's good stuff.
reesie at 6:36PM on 01/09/08
What a ridiculous idea. Isnt that just like salting your spinach or dipping or carrots in ketchup? Still, those fries look good.
blahthequah at 6:44PM on 01/09/08
furikake is the best! in hawaii, when you go to the movie theater, you can get popcorn, a package of furikake and a flat cardboard tray to mix it in. yum!
dmarina at 7:07PM on 01/09/08
Maybe it will become the new condiment. Salsa did replace ketchup for a while but they say ketchup has now climbed back to #1 place.
I've also found that the individual snack packs of Paoin Nori (seasoned roasted seaweed) go over very well with most kids. We go through one of the containers that hold 100 pcs. every week or so. :)
Karen Resta at 7:13PM on 01/09/08
MMMmmmm... furikake... with rice... on buttered toast... on spam and rice... on soup... mmmmm... furikake... never thought of fries! MMMmmmm...
Wow. I just realized I'm completely out of furikake! How can that be? Oh yeah... 16-year-old son is obsessed with it. Especially on buttered toast... Must remember to buy more.
Oh.
Sorry. Carry on.
LoCo at 9:56PM on 01/09/08
Furikake on veggies sounds good! Why didn't I think of that one before?
CandyAddictSera at 11:28AM on 01/10/08
Although I do enjoy using furikake, I have to agree with blahthequah; furikake has a lot of bad ingredients in it along with the seaweed. I think the best bet, (though it will involve more work) is to take dried seaweed and sesame seeds, crumble it, and sprinkle it over whatever you need.
I must say that photo of the fries looks delicious with or without the furikake.
PattyCho at 11:59AM on 01/10/08
I'm not sure which *bad* ingredients are of concern. The jars of fumi furikake that I buy contain only nori, sesame seed, salt, spices and sometimes sugar. Some varieties (seto, wasabi, shiso) also contain bonito, eggs, wasabi, and/or soy sauce.
A close friend of mine, who is Japanese, turned me onto this years ago, and I was hooked. The sodium content is high, but so are plain salt or shoyu. This way at least you're getting the seasonings and a little nori.
It's super delicious on scrambled tofu.
LoCo at 1:42PM on 01/10/08
The one I have has MSG in it. Generally I try to avoid foods with MSG b/c it makes me extremely thirsty and sometimes I get headaches. I will look for ones without it.
PattyCho at 5:46PM on 01/10/08