
My son and daughters love sushi. As a family, we never need to ask “where do you want to go for dinner” because we always end up at our favorite Japanese restaurant. I love it because it’s one of the healthiest dining out options but since all three of my kids can eat their weight in sushi, it’s not always the most economical.

My son and I took a cooking class a few years back to see if we could make our own sushi but the procedure seemed so daunting, especially perfecting the art of making sushi rice and then there’s the issue of dealing with raw fish, so we thought it best to leave this up to the experts. However, I decided, with my youngest daughter to give it another try. We agreed on California roll, no raw fish to contend with, and we bought all of the ingredients at a regular supermarket…Nori (seaweed), sushi rice, avocado, cucumbers, fake crab, rice vinegar and ginger. We both watched a few You Tube videos on making sushi and we read the recipe on the back of the rice bag. Nothing sounded hard but I don’t think we were very confident that our California roll would taste anything like sushi from our favorite Japanese restaurant. To our surprise, it tasted exactly like it. Not only was it easy to make but we ended up with 6 rolls (36 pieces) of sushi. It was fun, healthy, economical and a great party idea…DIY Sushi.

