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.

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…

Only 24 hours left to enter our contest! See yesterday’s post for contest rules and how to enter!

Only 48 hours left to enter the Sushi Day contest! You might have some questions… so here are some answers!

What can I win?

5 Sushi Day shirts worth $20 each, in the size of your choice! We have women’s small, medium, and large, and men’s small, medium, large, and extra large.

What do I have to do?

There are 12 questions you have to answer (they are at the bottom of this post)- 10 of the answers can be found on the website, and the last two are opinion questions that have no *right* answer. Out of those who answer the first 10 correctly and put some kind of answer for the last two, I will randomly pick five winners.

How do I enter?

Use the Contact Form or email me at sushiday [at] gmail [dot] com with all of your answers. Make sure to number your answers, so I know which answer goes with which question!

When is the deadline?

11:59 PST on Saturday, January 12th.

When will you tell me who won?

I will email and announce the winners on Monday, January 14th.

Contest Questions:

1. What is the key ingredient that makes sushi what it is?
2. What is the date of Sushi Day?
3. What kind of sushi does my family have every New Years?
4. When is Son’s birthday, and how old is he now?
5. How many different types of inari sushi have I made? (I’m counting anything that uses the inari pouches as inari…)
6. I have a sushi battle wound… where is it and how did I get it?
7. Which sushi roll was named after a song?
8. What programming language did I use to write a program to *automate* sushi posts?
9. What video game logo did I make with sushi?
10. What is the color for leukemia? (Kinda like how pink is the color for breast cancer) What about children’s cancer? Which month are they recognized in? (For example, breast cancer is October…)
11. What is your favorite recipe on Sushi Day?
12. What would you like to see on Sushi Day that isn’t already here?

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If you haven’t already, head over to my “Contest Time” post and enter the contest to win one of five Sushi Day t-shirts in the size of your choice! Deadline is midnight PST next Saturday, so get entering!

It’s contest time!

Find out about the contests after the jump!

About a year ago, you might recall I was raving about New Years sushi, and talking about how every year we go and get it from the same place. Surprisingly, I had never actually been there aside from New Years Eve to pick up sushi. So I was wonderfully surprised when the “hole in the wall sushi place” that my friend was taking me to ended up being our “New Years sushi” place!