Sushi Making

In the last few years, I have developed a love for sushi. I had raw fish before in Mexico and Chile, fish so called "cooked" with lemon but still slimy and odd textured. I went with Laura to my first suchi bar and LOVED it. My favorite was the las vegas roll, the deep fried shrimpy goodness that is tempura. Since then we have discovered several sushi restauraunts that serve good sushi including an all you can eat sushi buffet in Vegas and even some decent california type rolls from Wallmart. We even found a good restaurant here in Martinsville that have sushi deals for lunch and our whole family can have sushi for $24. Jack loves it because they do hibachi cooking and light onion volcanoes and cook his food in front of us. Charlie loves sushi too, he got his first exposure when he was just a few months old.

We had BYC at our house and following tradition wanted to make some dinner/ appetizers for all the kids in the branch. Laura decided that we needed to make sushi. Our branch pres warned us that these are southern kids who just like biscuits and gravy and may not eat anything different, especially if it's not deep fried. I thought maybe they wouldn't ask us to host it again if we traumatized the teenagers with sushi rolls. Thanks to Laura who made a special trip to Danville, we got all the ingredients and Jack had lots of fun trying to roll them up. It actually is alot harder than it looks, sometimes the seaweed wraps break or we would try and fill them to full and then we couldn't get them to seal. It took us a few hours to make 3 or 4 cookies sheets full of sushi-type rolls (We didn't use raw fish, just chicken, crab, cheese, ham and even some hot dog bits.) Although we were nervous, all the teenagers tried them and most of them liked them alot! Most of them went back for seconds... I think a few eyes were opened to the goodness that is sushi tonight.