Sushi for Supper: a project from the past

Last summer I learned the fine art of making sushi. Turns out I had a knack for making sushi, and successfully supervised the making of sushi for about 100 hungry drunks as a midnight snack. Since then I've made sushi twice, once for my parents at the end of the summer and once this past January with some friends.

It's hard to find good sushi supplies in rural Minnesota, so my friend Theo and I drove to the Twin Cities to find sushi quality fish and an Asian market. Luckily we found them right across the street from each other. We returned to school with seaweed, tuna, eel, crab, soy sauce, wasabi, cucumber, carrots, avocado, and these weird gourd strips that we never ended up using. Once we started the rice cooking, we went to the liquor store to pick up some Sake. The sake turned out to be quite gross—even Seth, our friend who will drink absolutely anything, thought so—but the sushi was delicious and fun to make. Although I think sushi without fish is rather boring (eel and tuna are my favorites), Ann the vegetarian found plenty to enjoy.

Claire making sushi (we ran out of white rice so we had to switch to brown rice which worked out surprisingly well)
Sushi being eaten as fast as we could make it