Here is one of the reasons why I might decide to try a recipe. I bought flat seaweed this one time, because I couldn’t find the seaweed snacky stuff that L likes to eat. So I bought the stuff you make sushi rolls with, figuring I’d cut it up and get them cripsy on the stove with a little sesame oil. Then the next day I found the snacky stuff, and bought it because, you know, so much easier.

So, then I had a package of seaweed leftover in the cupboard. Let’s make sushi! Which means buying a whole lotta ingredients just to use up a $3 package of seaweed. Which still isn’t completely used up, incidentally.

I bought bulk sushi rice from PCC. You are supposed to cook the rice, then mix in a rice vinegar/sugar solution to the cooked rice. I used too much sugar, or the rice vinegar had lost its potency, because it ended up being sweeter than I wanted. Also in there, sliced cucumber, fake crab meat (“krab” meat), avocado. They were fun to make, but the seaweed was too chewy. Plus, one cup of rice makes a LOT of rolls. I haven’t eaten that much rice in a long time. And, man, boy did I pay for it.

Above you’ll see the fine shrimp salad I made to accompany the rolls.

Just in case it didn’t turn out, I also bought a package of sushi from the store. The real stuff. I didn’t eat it, but the rest of the family did.