rolling it up, asian style

people ask us what we like to do on our free time together. our first initial thought is “what free time?”…life the past few weeks has transformed into what we initially expected when we first decided on wil’s back to school adventures. we knew that we’d both still have to work a lot to support ourselves while he takes classes and grow accustomed to passing each other throughout the day. this phase in our life has left us with fleeting moments at night when we both come home and see each other for about an hour before the head hits the pillow, exhausted. (one of the many reasons for this blog being neglected at times)

our second thought to that question, is, well, we like to cook. wil cooks all morning, and most afternoon evening, and on our days off, we still like to be in the kitchen together. we are part of the 1% of the world where grocery shopping is one of our favorite things to do together (borderline being a date). and when we brainstorm about our time off, or even our future lives, it often is dreaming up a meal, or type of food to one day make. we happily allow our lives to be enriched by savoring and celebrating meals, ingredients and beverages.

sushi is one of those things that i always bring up wanting to make when we ponder what to do on our days off. my wish finally came true, when we had enough produce and short grain rice on hand, as well as an alien looking crab leg trying to claw it’s way out of the fridge. this by no means is a post with a recipe. we are not masters, or even novices. we just acted like we knew what we were doing as we bumbled along, and enjoyed capturing the mess and process.

while i had my minor complaints of the outcome, we both were pretty excited with how well it came out, and laughed at the irony of when we order two rolls each when we are out, it’s never enough, but we made three each and couldn’t even finish!