Sushi & other cooking thoughts

So, the other night, we were in Salt Lake valley, and stopped at Ikea. It's one of our favorite places to eat (yes, it's a furniture store, but they have a good eatery). Our returned missionary who went to Sweden is tired of the Swedish meatballs, but he wasn't with us anyway. After eating, we were walking thru the store and I decided it was time to splurge the $1 and buy a bamboo placemat. I've seen demonstrations for making sushi and decided that I need to make my own. I have google'd (it's a verb!) and found some sushi rice recipes and so in the next week or two I'm going to try and make my own sushi. Apparently, you add a little bit of rice vinegar to the rice to make it better. I plan to use faux-crab and cucumber and probably a little avocado and make some California Rolls. I have high expectations.

I need to make some teriyaki chicken again soon. The kids really like it when I make the sauce, and my oldest son perfected my recipe. We just use equal parts sugar, soy, and water, then flavor with garlic and ginger. It's sweeter than some of the off-the-shelf stuff. (The sweeter, the better!!!)