It’s done.

I knew the Bride when she used to rock and roll.

Note the appropriate Paris Hilton standing.  You can’t point a camera at any of us without an immediate “leg in front turn to the side” thing happening.   Good times.

My mother was right.

It’s just the one time I’ll write that so take a minute to absorb.  A while ago my mother gave me a rice cooker.  This was just one thing in a long list of useless gifts that my mother has given me over the years.  I am not very gracious upon receiving these gifts but this one in particular really pissed me off.  I fancy myself kind of a chef. I enjoy making new and exciting meals for my family as well as staple favorites that everyone loves.  My turkey and stuffing is legendary.  I never opened the rice cooker.  I’ve had it over a year and never opened it. Then came sushi night.  I had a LOT of rice to make and thought, what the hell I’ll give it a try.  I took it out of the box (yep still in the box WITH styrofoam) and followed the directions to make 8 cups of rice.  Holy crap!  This it the best invention EVER.  There is no boil over onto the stove the damn thing is AUTOMATIC and the rice comes out perfectly. I am in shock. Here is my new best appliance.

Tonight I used it to make wild rice to stuff the cornish game hens….which bring us to the second part of this post.

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving.  I REALLY didn’t want to make a turkey for a variety of reasons so I decided to do something my mother used to do and make cornish game hens.  Here they are before they went into the oven and once finished…stuffed with wild rice from the rice cooker….and bathed in red wine…..Happy Thanksgiving.

I know what you’re thinking.  Yes, I’m a rock star…..

Sushi night in Canada.

So “N” desperately wanted to make sushi.  Since there is no family thing this weekend for Thanksgiving I figured what the hell.  We made vegetable sushi and salmon maki.  We also made Orange Chicken teriyaki with homemade teriyaki sauce and vegetable tempura from scratch.  It was AWESOME.  I think I’ll make the kids sushi for their lunches (just without the raw fish).  What a great supper.  Here’s us making the rolls. Elijah “helped” by coming over and eating the rolls as we made them.

Tomorrow night I’m making Cornish Game Hens instead of a turkey with wild rice stuffing and mashed potatoes.  I love cooking.  I need to win the lottery so I can really go whole hog.