Homemade Sushi & Gyoza Yumminess

Holly and I had a great time this past Saturday night learning how to make gyoza from scratch, and roll sushi. Friends of our purchased the hands on food demonstration at a private grade school charity auction. All and all it was all for a good cause, and the company was great!



The filling which consisted of ground chicken, spices, cabbage, green onion, soy sauce to name a few. All rolled up by hand or in gyoza making devices. I personally found it was easier to just do this by hand, and omit trying to do the fancy edge with the rolling machine. The beauty of it, is that it all tasted the same going down.



Our little sweat shop, making dozens of gyoza.



My sushi roll. Mine had sprouts, smoked salmon, green onion, red pepper and mushrooms in it. Not a bad roll for my first time if I must say so myself.



My finished roll, all decked out on the plate just prior to consumption. We had a fantastic evening and will definitely be doing this again.

Some Much Needed Reprieve

It’s been an interesting few past weeks at work. A period of time that I hope we will be leaving soon behind us and moving on to other productive things. It’s interesting to see how people respond to changes and process improvements, particularly in a corporate setting. I’ve gone through these types of changes before, a myriad of times, at other places of employment. I’m learning with some colleagues at work, that these types of changes are stressful if they have never been subjected to a process improvement review. Or have never gone through anything like this in their professional working career. Tensions have been high at work to say the least and I’m glad I can be a sounding board for colleagues that are stressed out. I’m glad I have direct work colleagues to vent to.

I’m starting to feel that there are enough things in motion at work that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The much needed changes and process improvements are commencing and starting to fall into place. And enough external departments are in the know of the challenges we’ve been facing, that they can be a catalyst for implementing the changes as well. For the first time in weeks, I feel some sort of reprieve with the work related stress.

The Resistance

I've really been enjoying my Muse recent music purchases. I like the varying styles of music on both CDs. Some a little country sounding, some heavy metal and others alternative in nature. Particularly with wanting to block out unnecessary drama with colleges at work, it's nice to put my head phones on, and tune people out.