Homemade Sushi!

I really did make homemade sushi with my friend Ellen! I am going to attempt to post these pictures here & explain this process...this is not really a recipe, but more of a way for me to try and retain this! 

 For starters, you can make this amazing super easy sauce that you see pictured here. Ellen called it "Volcano sauce."  It is basically that sriracha hot chile sauce that you can buy in the asian section at Walmart, mixed with mayonnaise! But I'm telling you, this stuff is amazing inside these Californian rolls!

 The ingredients we used were: japanese rice (she said to use this kind of rice b/c it's just the right amount of stickiness). We used sliced avocado, sliced cucumber, crab meat & the seaweed wraps. She bought all of these items at Kroger!  It is also helpful to have those small bamboo rolls--she said you can buy these at World Market, but Ellen said you could also just use a dish towel to roll the sushi if you don't have this mat.

So you lay a piece of saran wrap down on top of the bamboo mat. You spread out a layer of the cooked japanese rice--spread it nice and evenly in a square shape (basically the same size & shape of the seaweed wrap). You can see if you look closely at this picture that the rice is laid underneath the seaweed wrap.  Then inside the wrap you place your crabmeat, sliced avocado, sliced cucumber & top it off with a little volcano sauce.
The tricky part is just using that saran wrap to pick up the entire stack you've just created and you fold it over...kind of rolling it up (see the second picture for what it looks like once you've accomplished this).  After you've made the roll, use a sharp serrated knife to cut your sushi into the sushi rounds you see on the platter.  That's it!!
Ellen said there are many you tube videos showing you technique, etc.
I could not believe how "easy" it was to make this. Now I am hungry for sushi!
Hope I get brave enough to try this again before long!! :)