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Family Cooking ~ Sushi Dinner

The boys love to eat sushi. Well, they mostly love Tamago ("egg sushi"), soy sauce, and edamame. Though, they will venture a taste of salmon sashimi sometimes.

We thought it would be fun to have our own sushi dinner, to give the kids an idea of how those fun little bite sized rolls are made.

Now, we don't have raw fish on hand very often, and even if we do, it's unlikely to be sushi grade. Since this was a spur of the moment idea, we filled most of our rolls with some unusual sushi choices.

We made three types:

1) Tomogo - Scrambled egg, rice vinegar, sushi rice, nori

2) Hamburger Rolls - Ground beef with (cooked), ketchup, mayonnaise, & mustard, sushi rice, nori

3) Salmon Patty Rolls - Salmon patty (cooked), mayonnaise, sushi rice, nori

We've made Tamago before, and as usual it was a big hit, *surprise*. Hamburger rolls and salmon patty rolls was also well received.

Can't replace the real deal, but it was a fun family cooking event.

Friday, February 10, 2017

A Slugterra Birthday Party {Rowan's 6th year}

by Sarah

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I know that every year it's hard to believe your children are another year older, but 6 is different. I don't really know why. Six is like the beginning of the new year, when you keep writing the old year on accident. I keep catching myself saying Rowan is 5 years old.

For the past two years, I've been trying to convince either of the boys to have a space themed birthday party. I've collected stickers and favors and decorations to go along with the space theme over that span of time, because, well, I like space.

I finally got Rowan on board this year, begrudgingly. It's not that he doesn't like space. He loves space. But I think they like the flashiness of a birthday party theme based on the latest popular cartoon/movie/game. Party stores know this....obviously.

As the party day approached, I surprisingly felt uninspired by my space themed party collection. Weird. And since Rowan had an overall pretty shitty year of being 5, I decided I was going to surprise him with a Slugterra themed party!

What's Slugterra, you say? Oh, just a very serious animated series about a world beneath ours where people (and other beings) practice "Slug Fu", a sort of shooting slugs (the slimy kind) in a such a way that they transform and wound your opponent.

It's strange. And kind of obscure, really. Not too many kids seem to watch it. But Rowan does. He LOVES it.

Oddly, I was more inspired by this theme, which has absolutely no ready-made decorations, favors, or games available for purchase so we had to get creative. Maybe that's what drew me to it.