Anyone that knows me know that I’m a sushi fanatic! fortunately, for me, I also have a partner in crime My friend Patty can also eat sushi just about every day! well, her birthday is coming up, and she’s the creative type, so she decided to make a cake and decorate it with dessert sushi. I thought it was a great idea, so we got together on Saturday, and made an event out of it. Turns out that we are pretty good at making dessert sushi, for a first attempt at least. since we took some pictures of the process, I told my friends that this is going to definitely make it to the blog, as I know that there are some people out there that would be interested in knowing more about how we did some things. Of course, it’s not like there’s lack of information on ther internet about any topic, but a personal experience is always good to share
So, here’s the scoop on what we used to make the whole thing.
- A whole lot of dried fruits: Mango, Banana, Apricots, Berries.
- Colorings: Colored sugar, and food coloring
- Rice and seaweed ingredients: white chocolate, dark chocolate, black frosting, and coconut shaving. Rice crispy treats
(You can click on each of the pictures to get a bigger version) In this first picture, you can see us making the sea weed, and the rice. We tried a couple of things, and ended up resorting dipping the rice crispy treats into the white chocolate and the dark chocolate. The white chocolate didn’t quite give the effect, so in addition to that, we decided to add the coconut shavings, and that made it look perfect!
Uni, was a bit hard to get the color. We put some food coloring in white frosting, but since we only had the 4 basic colors, we mixed some red and yellow until we got thecolor we’re looking for. In my opinion, I think it’s still lacks some texture, but unless we try a different ingredient altogether for the Uni, this is about the best we’ll be able to do. any better ideas on that?
In this picture, you can see the 2 sea eel sushi, which we used the dried banana for. I didn’t think they looked very realistic, and looked a bit more like the tamago then the sea eel. though if you look in a later picture, they looked a big better when there was the sea weed wrap around them.
In this picture, you can see the two pieces of california rolls, or philly roll, or I’m not really sure what it is, but it looks darn good! Obviously the green avocado is done with kiwi. I thought this one looked great though!
My handiwork here.This is the Uni, and the massago, which I filled with the colored sugar. I thought it turned out fairly good.
The salmon was a bit challenging to make. Annette had started it with the right idea, by putting lines of frosting in it, but I thought that we could do better than that, and make it look like the white stripes are actually inside the mango. That took me about 10 minutes per piece to make, but it was well worth it. I cut V-shaped stripes in the mango, and then filled it with the frosting, and just spread whatever is left around on the salmon to make it look more natural.
This is the plate with the Salmon, Tuna and Sea Eel. The Sea Eel, still didn’t have the sea weed on it. but it still looked pretty good.
The scallops were a little bit challenging, due to their “slimy” nature. it was hard to emulate that look. but we resorted to dipping some of the dry apricot in the white chocolate, and placing them on the sushi. turned out fairly good, though it was a lot of work. The sprinkles are the orange sugar, for the massago.
This is where things start coming together. this is one of the plates that has the salmon, Yellow Tail, Sea Eel, and Tuna
This is the California rolls, Uni, Massage, Tamago, and some wassabi on the side, which was made with white chocolate with food coloring.
I loved this picture of the Salmon and Sea Eel, so I thought I’d just put it on here..
And last but not least, we decided to put the pieces in a plate like on a normal sushi dinner plate…. check this out!
Now if this doesn’t get you hungry, then I don’t know what will Oh wait, I know what will, you can check out the rest of the gallery of picture right here, just in case you’re curious.
I has been a few days since I got a chance to blog, a lot has been happening, but I’m around. I hope that you guys still stick around even if a couple days pass by without any posts! keep the comments coming, and if you haven’t checked out the EntreCard,  (especially if you have your own blog), I encourage you to do so.   I received an email from my friend a couple of days ago, which had some pretty sweet images. Some of them may be old, in fact, maybe all of them, but I’ve always been intrigued, and impressed by this kind of work! How cool! Check it out: (Click on the pictures for a larger version)
So, I don’t know if you are aware of the RSS feed that is available on this site, and other sites for that matter. it’s a great little tool to be able to keep track of any updates on the site without having to keep checking back.
To add my site to your RSS feeds, all you have to do is click on the “Entries RSS”, or “Comments RSS” and, if you have Firefox, or Safari, you would have a built in RSS reader, otherwise, you would need to download one before you add the feed.
A little confused? check out the YouTube video below, which will tell you a bit more, in simple terms about RSS Feeds:
Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?
There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese…..
Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents your-Self
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
& the Last (Little) finger represents your children
Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back
Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip
(As shown in the figure below):
Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)…, they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.
Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)…., they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.
Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)…., they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.
Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse).
You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT….., because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin!!
I thought this was pretty cool, so I thought I’d share it…
If you’ve never heard of Zoho, you may be wondering what the heck that subject means. Well, it’s very easy to explain: 99% of users have used an office suite of some sort, whether it be Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, Open Office, or any other product. Unfortunately, up until very recently, most of them were actually offline productivity tools. With the new and upcoming Web 2.0, the world has changed, and shifted to online collaboration and productivity tools.
If you are at all involved in the online world, you may be familiar with the Google Docs applications. Zoho is a very similar set of online tools, whose sole purpose is to not only provide a set of application that seamlessly integrate together, but also allow for simple collaboration between groups. The applications range from any thing simple like creating a word document or an excel spreadsheet, to creating a full fledged application with backend database supporting it, using a very user friendly interface, as well as options to script the application manually (for advanced users) using the Deluge scripting language.
One of the very cool features that I personally like about zoho, is that they allow you embed any application, anywhere, they also have plugins for outlook, to collaborate when using their CRM product, as well as other plugins to integrate with other office products, as as facebook.
Now, even you can create something really cool to impress your friends on your MySpace page, or even your professional website, collecting customer’s contact information, or a poll or what have you …
If you are intrigued as to what Zoho can do, you can check out that YouTube video that gives a brief demonstration of the product.
You can also run this search to get a whole slew of additional videos that demonstrate the different products that Zoho offers.
Alright, so maybe it’s not as exciting a fight as I may have made it sound in the title, but there’s a method to the madness.
You see, a lot of times, I find myself on IM trying to send someone a picture, and it takes forever to do so, for many reasons:
Sometimes you are at work, and there is a firewall that blocks / limits bandwidth for sending files or media files
Sometimes it is just the mere fact that some of the providers (i.e MSN has a very bad file transfer protocol, which is inherently slow
and sometimes, ok , you get my point …..
This is when a website like picoodle or tinypic will come in play.
Basically, they are sites that allow you to quickly upload any type of pictures, tag it, resize it, and send your friends a link to that image. the best thing about these 2 services are that tend to support most linking methods. so if you are unfamiliar on the format of a link in order to embed your picture in MySpace, Facebook, your blog or any other location, do not worry, because they give you the list of links, and you can choose the one most appropriate for your needs.
When on IM, usually, you would just use the “Direct Image” link.
now you may ask…. well, which one should I use? well, you can use whichever one you like. they are almost exactly the same, with one major difference however, which could, make or break the deal for you!
Picoodle allows you to login and keep track of the pictures that you uploaded for future reference to their links where TinyPic does not seem to allow that, once you upload the picture and send the link, and navigate away from the page, you pretty much lost the link, unless you saved it on your computer somewhere or bookmarked it. other than that, it’s super simple, try it out, and you’ll see what I mean.
Now…. for people who are interested in still sharing pictures in a more dynamic level and don’t want to keep uploading the whole time they are chatting, there is a solution (unfortunately, it is only for Windows, and I am bummed about that because, I have a Mac). the Software is called “Hello” .. yup it’s that simple, it’s a part of the google suite, and integrates very nicely with Picasa. essentially it is an IM client just like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, with one big difference, in that it is very media oriented, which means that when you initiate a chat session with someone, a big white screen shows up next to that session, where you can drag photos from your desktop, or your favorite photo browser (Picasa supports sending a picture straight to Hello), the picture will upload and your chat partner can immediately see the picture you uploaded. You can choose to save the pictures as you see them, or just look at them and move on. Also, you can have your buddy “drive” guiding you through the pictures as they explain. So basically, it is a remote presentation of pictures.
Do you ever find yourself trying to make a plan with your friends, but have a hard time coordinating times when everyone is available? Or even on different level trying to decide what movie to go watch prior to the event, or what travel destination a group is interested in? Without Doodle , this can be a tedious process involving a lot of emails, or phone calls and text messages. Now, check this out, you create a simple poll with Doodle, and then send it to your friends with an email link, and each will put their availability times, and this will give you a very nice overview as to everyone’s availability and/or preference. what do I think about the idea? Slick’n'Simple!
Ever found these CDs that have scratches on them, and went out and bought one of those $20-$30 kits to clean the scratches? … well .. not only is this solution viable for CDs, but also to clean any surface that is scratched, in this case, an iPod.
I have not personally tried it, but I would think it should work.
Have you tried this method at all? has it worked for you? I have a pretty scratched up iPod, so I’m going to give it a whirl, perhaps, I’ll post an update on this article to verify the veracity of the information presented in the video
That’s a pretty sweet way to make your friends drop their jaw.
I saw this in a picture. I still am not sure if it’s a photoshop picture, or if it’s sold somewhere. but I will look for that, and post an update if I can find it. that would be trippy!
Ok honestly, I’m not pondering anything with this one, though for some reason, I found the facts in it extremely intriguing, and if nothing else, it made me just think about where our world is heading, or at least try to imagine. This presentation address US Labor vs world labor, as well as education issues, and technologies, I guess I just wasn’t quite aware of some of these numbers, they left me gasping in surprise in some instances, I hope it would be some food for thought for you too..
In this first picture, you can see us making the sea weed, and the rice. We tried a couple of things, and ended up resorting dipping the rice crispy treats into the white chocolate and the dark chocolate. The white chocolate didn’t quite give the effect, so in addition to that, we decided to add the coconut shavings, and that made it look perfect!
The salmon was a bit challenging to make. Annette had started it with the right idea, by putting lines of frosting in it, but I thought that we could do better than that, and make it look like the white stripes are actually inside the mango. That took me about 10 minutes per piece to make, but it was well worth it. I cut V-shaped stripes in the mango, and then filled it with the frosting, and just spread whatever is left around on the salmon to make it look more natural.
This is where things start coming together. this is one of the plates that has the salmon, Yellow Tail, Sea Eel, and Tuna
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If you’ve never heard of Zoho, you may be wondering what the heck that subject means. Well, it’s very easy to explain: 99% of users have used an office suite of some sort, whether it be Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, Open Office, or any other product. Unfortunately, up until very recently, most of them were actually offline productivity tools. With the new and upcoming 
