California rolls

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The boys brought over the sushi kit. We'd made sushi in the past and the boys, now, have vegetarian type girlfriends. They really like California rolls and the girls are thrilled to have a meal that they enjoy. (They do eat some meat now but they prefer vegetarian)

BH loves sushi as well so one night I made California rolls. Wanna see?

Ok first, you have to get the right rice. It absolutely must be short grained rice. It's easy to find, and cheep so just go pick up a bag.

This is not the best pic of this but you need to rinse the rice. At first the water will be cloudy. Very cloudy, milky.

When it's clear then you dump all the rinse water and add an equal amount of water/rice. Cook this till done. (recipe to follow)I don't usually use carrot. You can. Just cut it very thin. Cucumber is better, softer. Avocado is a must, unless you hate avocado. Fake crab meat. Real crab, fresh crab is difficult to get here. I don't know why, we are about an hour from the beach, two from the port. Whatever.And nori. I don't really like nori. Taste fishy to me. Yes I do know that it is seaweed and it's good for you.
It still stinks.

My first roll.

Didn't roll.

Then I tried the reverse roll.

Better

Later rolls turned out pretty good.
And the recipe is. . .

Oh just go here.

Here's a nifty little video on how to make sushi rice.

Here's another video about how to make a cucumber roll.

And this! You gotta see this. He makes a sailboat and a crab in the roll. Go look!