Here I include advice about how to best make sushi, prepare to make sushi, tools for making sushi, etc. This pretty much includes all posts that aren’t about making a specific type of sushi.

About a month ago, I signed up to be a member of Blake Makes’ Sooper Heroes. Blake is a food blogger from New Orleans who gives his Sooper Heroes opportunities to recieve free food samples. In the past, he has offered home-made dulce de leche and Sucre chocolates. This time around, Blake had about fifty pieces of TCHO chocolate bars to give away. I was one of the lucky bloggers to comment in time to receive a TCHO bar!

A few hours ago, Yahoo! launched a new project called Shine. This is pretty exciting for both me and you, because Shine is a blogging platform, and they have a category to blog about food! This is great for promoting your own blog or blogging about stuff that you wouldn’t normally put on your blog (like for me, I can post all sorts of non-sushi stuff!), especially because it gets to a potential audience of millions! Although there are still a few kinks they have to iron out, it’s pretty cool! I was pretty lucky, because through my connections, I got to get in early and start blogging a little over a week ago. You can go check out my blog on Shine, here! Some of the posts are from Sushi Day, but there are some new ones on there that won’t be on here, so go check it out!

Gosh, where is all the time going? I could swear I just posted the last Taste and Create… and then yesterday I realize that I only have a couple of days left until the deadline for this one! What happened? Oh yeah… big papers, finals… oh boy. Well, luckily I did remember in time! Just a hop and a skip over to Tami’s blog, Running With Tweezers and… dang. Another setback. Well, not really a huge setback, but I couldn’t decide what to make!

(Yes, I do actually talk like that. What? I don’t like to cuss. )

I just found out that for some reason, Google Checkout (what I use to sell my Sushi Day shirts) won’t let people select locations outside of the United States to ship to. Yeah. That’s a problem. Especially because I know quite a few of you are from outside of the U.S.! Oi.

It’s that time again! Yep, that’s right, it’s time for Taste and Create V!! This month, I was paired up with Karina from The Floured Apron. She is a very new food blogger as she has only been posting for two months (!) but nonetheless it was very easy for me to find several recipes I wanted to try out. Her Creme Brulee looks delicious, but I don’t think I have any dishes that are oven safe, so I didn’t want to risk exploding bowls. I really really REALLY wanted to try her Perogi, but I didn’t have very much time, so I’m putting those off until later. I’ll definitely be making them eventually though! Yum. I love perogi. Anyways, I ended up making her Crab Rangoon. It’s super easy to make… all you have to do is mix the ingredients together, stuff the wontons, and then fry or bake them!

SUSHI DAY SHIRTS ARE FINALLY HERE!!! Yay! See that link over in the left sidebar that says “Store”? Well that means that finally, FINALLY we are selling the Sushi Day shirts! They are $20 each + shipping, and the money goes towards buying more sushi-making ingredients (believe me, it can get expensive!) and continuing to bring you all sorts of sushi goodness! I can ship to people both inside and outside of the United States, although for those of you are international it will obviously take a little longer to get there.

I first introduced you to Cheese Age waaaay back when I first tried them at Honda-Ya for Son’s birthday. Yeah, I’m a bit behind in my posts, can you tell? Anyways, I promised you I would try making them and then write a post about them… and I did! Make them anyways. I made them for my great-aunt’s Christmas party the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and they were a hit! One of my great-aunts loved them so much, she took all of the left-overs home!

I tried. Really, I did! But it wasn’t meant to be. I even tried baking them to see if I could salvage them! But, well, you can see for yourself.

Congratulations to Rebekah, Carolina, Yvo, Andrea, and Violet! They are the five winners of the Sushi Day t-shirts. Thanks so much to everyone else who entered… I will be emailing each of the entrants who didn’t win the contest a $5 coupon that you can use to buy a Sushi Day shirt (when we get the order form up later this week)!

I’m sure some of you are curious, so the answers to the contest questions are after the jump…