Your wedding? of course. The birth of your child? Obviously, the 9th month isn’t exactly a walk in the park. But the day us SAHM’s all look forward to has to be the day we get our hair done. I’m serious here people. This is …
@ wives of men (or men who do other mens laundry): If your husband pulls his socks off and leaves them in balls like this; just know that you are not alone. I thought I was the only one to suffer this affliction but it …
There is probably no way our family could ever eat enough sushi. Dave loves it, Ethan loves it and I love it. In fact Louie loves it too but we can’t afford to feed our Shi Tzu sushi, shame on us I know.
I can roll sushi like a pro, but I can’t do it fast. This means we don’t eat homemade sushi as much as we should because it is a (fairly) cheap and super healthy family dinner. After a quick googling, Dave and Ethan headed to Stevens and picked up our very own……SUSHEZI! I swear this thing is so quick, easy to use and rolls amazing sushi. We love it so much we are having sushi again tomorrow night.
Cook your sushi rice and cool, prepare your ingredients. We used smoked salmon, avocado, cucumber, snow pea shoots, honey soy chicken, orange capsicum and cream cheese.
Grease your SUSHEZI! lightly and fill each side with half a cup of rice, create a trench with the plunger rod on each side.
Place your fillings in the trenches, this is the fun part!
Close the contraption with the plunger inside, and screw the plunger in. This will compress the rice and make the sushi roll nice and tight. Make sure the end cap is on – left hand side of the contraption.
Lay out your nori sheet and prepare to squeeze out your 1st sushi log! Look at that thing, it is perfect!
Roll the sushi as usual, wet the edge of the nori slight to make sure that it sticks.
Now let the roll rest for 15min so the nori softens – this will make it easier to slice.
Devour! We were hoping for leftovers, but we underestimated the appetite of our 4 year old.
Sometimes being tucked up in your bed early on a Friday night is the best place to be, especially when it’s freezing cold and it has been a long, busy week. Things I am loving right now; That I finished and submitted my law assignment …
The Prompts:
1.) Tell us about a “dirt cheap” you’ve taken this summer.
2.) When I grow up I want to be like…
3.) Describe a difficult moment that you survived.
4.) List 5 things you like to do while camping…or 5 places you’d like to go.
5.) What are you paranoid about?
Well, it’s not summer so #1 is out, I just plain do not want to grow up so I can’t even entertain #2.
3. Describe a difficult moment that you survived. OK let’s tackle this guy.
The first situation that springs to mind is Ethan’s Christening. I don’t even know if that’s what it was called, maybe his dedication or something? Obviously I am not much of a ‘force religion on your child’ type-person. We were in the south, staying with Dave’s family for the final month before we moved permanently to New Zealand. There was this ridiculous drama surrounding the whole thing, certain family members had not spoken to us for 3 of the 4 weeks because we weren’t shelling out money to their children left and right (cause we are filthy rich right?) so tension was running high. Add to this, it was Mothers Day and I was being forced to go to a Baptist church and do something I felt quite strongly against. It was a ill planned joke in the church. On a day when a number of very young children were ‘booked in’ for this procedure, the pastor decided to make the kids wait til the end of the service. By wait, I mean a couple of hours. Can you imagine? So when it’s finally the time to address the issue of the screaming children and their destiny with Jesus we line up in front of the congregation. It’s very quiet, everyone is listening to the pastors inroduction of each little family. Ethan is pissed and wallops me across the face with this satisfying slap that was totally worthy of a Sopranos sound bite. That’s how The Jack family met the southern baptists.
To amplify my mothers day misery, it was a Sunday. In Georgia. Do you know what that means? NO LIQOUR SALES. I was unable to drown my sorrows. So I did what any self-respecting, miserable wife would do – I sent my husband and my best friend to Florida to buy beer. Happy mothers day!
This pic was taken at midday believe it or not. This crazy bird was so tame, when I arrived at the cafe it was sitting on Pauline’s head.
My Michael Jackson memories. There are so many, I grew up in the eighties so pop music was like crack to me. Madonna, MJ, Tiffany, NKOTB if you hate it, then I probably loved it. Christmas 1987 rolled around and Santa delivered the gift of vinyl – …
To celebrate the fact that I was well enough to get out of bed yesterday, the boys took me shopping. The mall is a dangerous fantastic place to be in the midst of our sobering economic climate. Everything is on sale, if you are paying full price for something at the moment you may have lost your marbles (but can probably pick up some new ones at 50% off). I found a pair of Country Rd jeans for $45 (more than 50% off) and these two fab tops from Max which were also 50% off. Ok. To be truthful, I got 2 of the grey star-sign tops as they will be so great for layering in winter and as t-shirts in summer.
Ethan is permanently fixed to his computer at the moment and is obsessed with hidden object games (made for grown-ups of course), so the advertisements on TV for the board game Pictureka really appealed to me. I wanted to be able to encourage what he enjoyed, but also get him off the computer. This game is SO much fun, we all had a blast playing it last night, it is easy to tweak the game play for all ages and best of all it was on sale at K-Mart for $29!
I may not drive a Prius (though I would if Toyota needed me to test drive one for a year or so!) and my car does not run on recycled vegetable oil, but I can say that I have been the proud owner of a …