Be My....Sushi Chef!!!

Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love, correct? I'm going to answer my own question and say "yes!" :) So with that said we deiced to do just that....
Neither AK or myself are real big on dropping crazy amounts of cash on a silly day when really all your supposed to do is love each other, so we decided to hang out with each other (the people we love tons) in our lululemon sweats (the sweats we love the most) and attempt to make ourselves a sushi dinner (food we love a lot). All things "love!" I have to admit I was skeptical....about the sushi! I mean I know I love to hang out with AK and I really know there are no other pants I would rather wear than lulu pants, but the sushi thing had me worried. In true Spieker/Kay fashion, we thought of this idea on our way back to Chicago on Sunday night so that left Monday to gather all the ingredients and necessary gadgets. Luckily for me, my valentine was a trooper and trekked all over the city on Monday after work to grab all necessary items....sushi rice, rice seasoning, chop sticks, soy sauce, nori sheets, sushi grade fish, etc. Basically you name it, AK bought it!! After his extreme effort I took it upon myself to make his favorite desert (Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies) and grab a "nice" bottle of red wine for us both to enjoy! So with a great team effort we were off....wine in one hand and sushi rolling with the other. Considering Whitney Houston had just passed away, I was really more interested in my wine and my fantastic "remember Whitney playlist!" But once again, AK was right there to quickly switch my focus back to sushi!! It went something like this: Me: "I wanna dance with some...." AK: "Annie it's time to make sushi we can listen to Whitney later!" Pretty typical. :) So there we were applying the rice, stuffing the rolls and of course competing over whose roll was going to be better!! :) I will admit though that it was a ton of fun and something we now know how to do and can only improve upon! There were also flowers and sweet cards exchanged, but my favorite part of the day was sushi rolling FOR SURE!!
Andy Kay I will be your valentine any day of the year for many reasons, but one specific reason being you are up for fun things like this and push me just a wee bit past my comfort zone so I can now say I made sushi!! So fun!
Cheers to us and spending our first Valentine's Day in Chicago!!!

mr. sushi chef....total natural!!

rainbow roll....our fav!

miss sushi chef....not too shabby

and the final product....how do i know it was good? because i ate enough to get full and 3 nights later i ordered sushi take out and threw half of it away!! i would say we did good!! :)