Dinner leftovers often are handy to have around the house, whether it’s for a quick snack, a easy lunch, or even the next day’s dinner. Figuring out what to do with these remainders becomes considerably more challenging when the dinner is sushi. Spicy tuna sushi, to be precise.

My wife and I were both full, yet there was still a fair amount of the spicy tuna left in the bowl. Considering the price we had paid for the high-grade fish, I wasn’t going to just throw it away. Does raw fish really keep until the next day? I just slapped on some plastic wrap and closed the fridge door, determined to worry about it later.

The next morning I became inspired. After having shelled out half of my bagel to meet the demands of my two year old in the neighboring chair, I retrieved the bowl and got to work.

It tasted…neither spicy nor like tuna. Perhaps I needed some wasabi cream cheese to give it a kick. Or perhaps “day old” and “sushi” are words that really don’t belong in the same sentence. It didn’t seem that far off from smoked salmon, but I guess it would have caught on by now if it was really the culinary breakthrough I had been hoping for.