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Being half Japanese, I don’t remember ever not eating seaweed. We would have it in soups, in sushi, as a snack. I even ‘invented’ a tasty treat of roast teriyaki-flavoured nori dipped in a cup of milk. It was just like milk and cookies…except it was milk and nori.
While visiting friends in New Brunswick in September, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that locals ate this tasty sea vegetable too. I bought a small bag of dulse at the St John City Market, and saw it again at the Kingston Farmers’ Market. I just snacked on it out of the bag, but I also read that dulse can be fried, toasted or microwaved into ‘chips.’ In Ireland, chopped dried dulse is added to butter, which is then spread onto bread. Now, what does dulse taste like? Since I didn’t rinse mine, there was a slight sea salt coating to the dulse. Other than than, it tastes like seaweed. Umami-esque. Chewy. Delicious. Like the sea from whence it came.
[…] filling (which is what we were used to growing up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). I bought a small bag of dulse, and I ogled the fresh seafood, the cheeses, and fresh produce. Wanting to try local coffee, we […]