Family Sushi Night

Here are some photos of the sushi night that I did for my whole family. There ended up being 9.2 people (the baby is pretty little still!) and it was a lot of work. It was fun too though, I love cooking for a crowd. I started assembling some of the ingredients the night before so it wouldn't be quite as hard, things like cooking the shrimp, slicing the eel. It still took me most of the day, I think I started around 1 and had dinner on the table by almost seven.

At this end you can see the salmon, cream cheese, and cucumber rolls, some shrimp and eel nigiri and the crab, cucumber and avacado rolls.

Oops, I cut off the top of the flowers! They were really pretty purple ones that my sister brought me. I think they may have been irises.

See the cute wasabi leaf? If you do this I recommend wearing gloves!! My hands were on fire for a while.

The other end of the table.. I see some more of the stuff that is at the other end as well as some inari stuffed with rice, sauteed mushrooms and onions. And the stuffed squid.. the little circles. All kinds of ingredients in those.. rice, cilantro, carrots, fresh grated ginger, some other stuff.  The inari were actually the most popular! I thought practically no one would like them.