Adventures in Sushi Making

What you need:

Rice
Nori (seaweed wrapping)
Rice Vinegar
Vegetable Oil
Sugar
Salt
*whatever ingredients you want inside: veggies, tofu, meat, fish
**I used carrots, zucchini, eggplant, and squash... pretty much anything goes!

I'm going to start by telling you I am a proud owner of a Sushi Master Sushi Maker... which is basically a mold for the sushi and that's why I can make different shapes. This makes things MUCH easier I'm sure! First you make the rice which I was happy to do now that our rice cooker is here, then I grilled veggies because I was making grilled veggie sushi today! When Damian comes home I plan to try to do some "real" sushi for him with some fish too!

It is all pretty easy after you have all the ingredients prepped and ready to go, you just start with the nori wrapper (which is a seaweed wrapper made by a similar process of paper-making) and then you add rice, then whatever you are putting in it, then more rice and BAM... sushi! It's all about presentation, so next time I will get a little more fancy... this was mostly a project to fill my afternoon and a trial run before I actually feed it to anyone. It made a lot more than I expected so I'll probably be eating veggie sushi the next few days!

Note to potential visitors (hint hint)... when you come to Japan to visit us not only can you get GREAT sushi but you can make your own here in our kitchen with authentic Japanese ingredients!!! I know that has probably helped change the minds of those of you on the fence about coming to visit.... Hope to see you soon!

Japanese word of the day:
Yasai (ya-sigh): Vegetables