Here are the ingredients
Here's what it looks like finished.
It seemed appropriate to serve it with homemade chicken nuggets!
My original (oh so naive) plan was to do the shopping in "the town where I work" on my lunch hour Friday. Then as soon as mamashack would post the recipe, I'd step into the kitchen at work, make the sushi, photograph it, and have my first shot ever at finishing first.
Z had a fever Friday, so I stayed home. I thought for sure mamashack would postpone the contest due to Sybermoms being down. Once I saw that she was going to go ahead with it, I waited for Z to wake from her nap and raced to "the town where I work."
First stop: Asia Food Store. Promising name, but all I found was rice vinegar, nori, and wasabi.
Second stop: The food coop where I've gotten all the ingredients for mamashack's past ingredients. I found sushi rice, avocado, cucumber, and sesame seed cause someone (Jaded) said you could sub them for flying fish roe. I saw that I could have gotten the rice vinegar and nori here.
Third stop: An small grocery catering to foreign students. I saw pickled ginger. It wasn't on the shopping list, but I bought it.
Forth stop: The regular chain grocery store. I bought the mock crab sticks.
The first four stops took over an hour and a half. We drove back down to "the town near where I live," still looking for the sushi rolling mat.
Fifth stop: Super Target. I found a nice plate to put them on for the photo.
When we got home I was too tired to consider making the sushi that night. Saturday morning I Googled to see just what a sushi rolling mat looks like, so I could figure out what would make a good sub. Decided to go back to Super Target to buy the bamboo placemats I saw. Not 10 inches from the placemats was a Sushi kit with rolling mat, rice paddle, and instruction book. I guess I was really tired Friday evening.
I began by assembling all the ingredients. Then I spent the afternoon researching how to make sushi. (I, who have only ever eaten sushi twice!) The instructions mamashack provided just weren't cutting it for me until I found the website she got them from and looked at the pictures. It's www.stickyrice.com.
After I made the California Roll per the instructions mamashack gave, I made a roll without the seafood (possible allergen) following the photos in the book which came with the mat.
Eric really enjoyed them. Zoe wouldn't even try them. I thought they were good, and I loved the wasabi!