My two eldest LOVE sushi but I haven’t convinced my youngest yet to give it a real try  even though he will eat wasabi rice crackers and anything with seaweed/nori.  Trader Joe’s has some dried Nori chips that are pretty yummy but don’t come close to their discontinued Tempura Nori & Wasabi chips.  We used to make them into an appetizer with sushi-grade tuna and wasabi mayo; yum.  

The other night we made homemade sushi with our new sushi mat.  We set up a sushi bar on our kitchen island.  Tuna, rice, nori, avocado, cucumber, carrots, wasabi tobiko, pickled ginger, scallions, wasabi and tamari soy sauce made up our ingredient list.  The sushi rice was prepared according to instructions with rice wine vinegar, sugar and salt.   (For 1 cup rice: 1/4 vinegar, 1 Tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt.)  The vegetables were mostly julienne except the avocado.  Though, next time it should be thinner for ease of rolling. 

We made several different rolls with various ingredients depending on kids’ preferences.  They each had their own soy sauce with or without wasabi mixed in.  My youngest had a bowl of rice, nori sheets, cucumber and carrots.  At least he got a nutritious dinner and with all the protein we eat, he didn’t miss out.

It was a great, fun dinner to make together.  We still have to practice getting the rolls tight enough, but the kids don’t care.