A Japanese Birthday!

Azucena's birthday was yesterday, and though she's from Taiwan, we made Japanese food for dinner.  There are 4 students from Japan at the house now and they planned a menu of sushi, chicken, beef and broccoli dish, potatoes, rice, eggs, tofu.

The seaweed sheet is placed on top of a special board and a layer of saran wrap.

Guatemalan-style sushi, with avocado and ketchup/mayo dressing along with rice, crab, and cucumber.

The special board is used to roll everything tightly together.  I got to try but needed a little help to get it just right!  It's as tricky as it looks!

The birthday feast

and a puppy :)