Forgive me!

When I last saw Mum, she had printed out all her Weekly Winners, sticky-taped them to a giant board and was standing at the top of the driveway, trying to hail a passing satellite in order to broadcast them to you.

Yes, her internet has died. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know when she will be back, as her computer tells her it is a Network problem, yet her provider tells her it is a computer error. A fine case of pass the buck, which unfortunately Mum is losing out on badly.

So! Hopefully Mum is back soon, otherwise she might just end up pulling out all of her hair and murdering my father and brother (not that they don’t deserve it sometimes).

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In other news and shameless blog whoring, I somehow managed to end up as a finalist in the 2009 Bloggies – Best Australian Blog category. I know! I don’t know how I managed it either!

Disbelief aside, I would be so grateful if you would head on over and vote for me. In fact, I would probably even be tempted to post photos of my 5 day old son just for you if you voted for me.

Please?

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Edited to Add:-

Yay!!! I am back online *phew*. I finally got through to a good technician, one that actually knew what he was talking about. Thankyou Manesh.

More photos of the new baby, Isaac will be published soon. Well as soon as I unstick them from the whiteboard,  Gosh satellites are speedy little buggers.

Cheers kim

Your answers ranged from, water over rocks to poo.. In a moment of weakness I gave everyone a hint, saying it was something to do with food.   Alas no-one even came remotely close… *sigh*

It was of course a piece of nori..Yes the stuff you use in sushi..yum..

cheers kim xxx…

Yes that’s right, No more Mrs nice guy..Muawahahaha… The next mystery object is going to be so tricky that your eyes will bleed…”insert evil giggle”

Well then my bloglings what do you reckon this is????

Please don’t freak out if the colours keep changing while you are reading this.

Cheers, Veronica

PS: Due to toddler distractions, this could take longer than I thought. Please don’t email Mum and tell her that her blog was all wonky coloured all day. Please?

Veronica asked me to make sushi for Amy’s birthday. So seeing as I had already opened my big mouth promised that I would. I decided that I might as well turn it into a sort of  sushi by numbers photos.

Sushi rice:

5 cups of medium(short) grain rice,

5 cups of water

2 tablespoons sake (I always forget to add this ooops.)

* blended vinegar :- 12 Tbsp vinegar,4 Tbsp sugar, 4tsp salt

In a largish bowl wash the rice with cold water then drain. Keep doing this until the water is clear, this generally takes about 4 rinses.

Put the rice and water and sake in a large heavy bottomed saucepan, cover and bring to the boil over a high heat. When steam starts to escape from under the lid or if a white starchy liquid starts to  bubble out from under the lid,  turn off the heat. Don’t take the pot off the stove though. Just let it sit there for about 15 minutes.

Or you can cook your rice in a rice-cooker  until the rice is soft but not gluggy, each grain of rice needs to be clearly defined.

Mix the rice vinegar ( I use white wine vinegar) sugar and salt in a small saucepan and heat gently until the sugar dissolves.

Transfer the cooked rice to a large shallow bowl and sprinkle generously with the vinegar. While the rice is still hot fold the vinegar into the rice being careful not to stir the rice.(stirring the rice makes it go all mooshy).  I cover the rice with some clingwrap and let it cool down while I prepare the rest of the ingredients.

you can click on any of the photos to make them bigger.

The ingredients for this batch of sushi are cream cheese,carrot,cucumber,capsicum,white japanese radish, sprouts and some leftover roast pork. I tend to use three ingredients at a time and try to marry flavours as well as colour.

Put a sushi rolling mat on your work surface, then place a sheet of nori(shiny side down) on the rolling mat. Using wet fingers spread the rice evenly all over the nori.

Put a small smear of wasabi paste on your finger and draw a line across the middle of the rice. Then arrange strips of your filling across the rice.

Using the rolling mat as a guide begin to roll up the nori..

Then using a sharp knife cut the nori rolls into bite sized pieces and serve with a sweet soy sauce and some wasabi..

If anyone has any questions I will answer them in the comments..  I hope that you all have heaps of fun making and eating sushi.. cheers Kim

OOOPS!!! I forgot to mention that my mum taught me how to make sushi.

Hi Mum *waves*

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This week there is a winner YAY…

Xbox4NappyRash Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 4:01 am

Dried up mess from after you’ve done that like pottery stuff n’things.

Yep Martin that is exactly what it was… Yay!!! WooHoo!!!

I had been messing about with some raw clay and when I poured the wet clay out of the jar it left a really nice pattern. My first thought was to photograph it and use it as an idea for decoration. I really like the flowing almost feminine shapes that the clay trails have left on the jar. My next thought was hehe “this will make a great mystery object”

Ree came very, very close with her guess as well. in that Ree mentioned wet clay..

Slip – (isn’t that what it’s called? the stuff that potters use? wet clay?).

And if ever I need to produce an image of Kelleys frozen bladder I have one to hand.. Thanks Kel..

Cheers Kim xxx

cheers kim xxx….