Cheers to Happy: Sushi...

I have loved Sushi for quite some time now...it is expensive and oh boy, can I ever eat my share plus someone elses...I have always wanted to make my own, but didn't know how, and thought it might be complicated...but after a little research I thought it looked pretty easy! I found it to be alot cheaper and you can add what you like! Sushi is so good for you and low calorie...Wouldn't a Sushi party be fun? Be sure to invite me, please....and thank you...

Sushi

6 cups of cooked short grain rice

6 tablespoons rice vinegar

2 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoon salt

5 nori sheets...seaweed...

and all the fillings you would like....I used Krab, smoked salmon, cucumber, radish, avocado, hard boiled egg, pickled carrot...I have heard that tuna fish is good and fresh cooked spinach...

rice vinegar, sugar and salt...heat just until sugar and salt dissolve...then cool...

make about 6 cups of rice, I used the rice cooker....place the cooked rice in a bowl and cool till just warm...add the vinegar and toss lightly...if you stir to wildly the rice turns to mush...

this is the fun part...getting to go to the asian market...buy nori sheets...they are available at the grocery store also....

buy some sushi mats...they are cheap...99 cents....they look like little rattan screens...

buy some pickled ginger..you MUST have pickled ginger...

buy some wasabi...now about wasabi....Check out the ingredient list on the back of the tube...nope, not a bit of wasabi listed...just horseradish and some other stuff...very little wasabi is grown now...there is a farm in Oregon that produces most of the true wasabi used today...they got their plant starts from Japan...wasabi grows along the banks of streams and rivers...the farm in Oregon sells much of their wasabi back to Japan...pure wasabi is very expensive...

got everything ready...prepped the veggies and fish....this is something you can do while cooling the rice...

place on the counter your sushi mat..then your nori wrap....then about a cup of rice...spread the rice on the bottom 2/3 of the paper and out to the ends...

ready to go..this one is hard boiled egg....cucumber and smoked salmon....kind of a Swedish version!

I wish I could show how easy this is...this is a two hand process....just use the mat to roll it up.....

then time to cut...use a clean knife and wet the knife...and slice all the way though...cut each log into about 7 pieces....you will need to wipe the knife often to get clean cuts and keep it wet...