Sushi night

Many of you may know that Chris and I love sushi – let me rephrase: I like sushi a lot and Chris is obsessed with it.  We don’t have many options in our city to eat good sushi, which may be a good thing because we would probably go broke eating out 5 + days a week.  So, the last couple of years we have been making it at home frequently.

While I was pregnant with both Wyatt and Brooklyn I quit eating sushi altogether because:

a) It’s not recommended during pregnancy – even though all of Japan eats it, I figure why take the risk when there is so much yummy fattening American food to indulge in with no guilt during pregnancy,

b) Raw fish just never sounded good when I was pregnant. When I was prego with Wyatt, the smell or sight of seafood of any kind made me throw up in my mouth a little,

c) I like to drink plum sake or wine with my sushi, and well, that’s illegal during pregnancy too.

Generally for our sushi-at-home experience we have fresh fish overnighted from San Diego. We get a bunch of it (shipping costs are outrageous), use what we need then freeze the rest, and thaw the extra when our next craving hits. Unfortunately tonight, we were out of raw fish but we made some interesting concoctions with what we had in the fridge. Most of you (mom and mom-in-law especially) may cringe when you read what we ate for dinner, but it was actually quite delicious.

This is what we call the yummy eel roll (ingredients: baked eel, cream cheese and green onion rolled in seaweed and sticky rice):

How about some spicy fish egg surprise? (Ingredients:flying fish eggs, spicy chili sauce, cream cheese and green onions rolled in seaweed and sticky rice)

We of course had plain old unagi sushi (eel on top of rice) and Chris’s favorite closer: Piles of fish eggs on top of wasabe, rice and wrapped in seaweed (not my favorite at all – I pass on this dessert)

Of course when we make sushi, Wyatt gets other food options. Since he is the pickiest eater in the world, we are not even trying to push sushi at him…yet.  But seeing us eating with chopsticks always makes him think he needs to eat with them too.  Here is Wyatt eating Mac and Cheese and chicken nuggets with chopsticks. He is actually getting quite good at it!

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