Prep Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour | Cook Time: 30 minutes or less | Serves: 8
Lunch » Seafood » Japanese

 Ingredients:

Mmmm, sushi. Almost everyone loves sushi. Most people spend the extra cash to get it from a restaurant, but making it yourself is both cheaper and more fun.

So, what exactly is involved in making sushi? Well, to start, you need to make the rice. Sushi rice is short-grained and made very sticky. Exactly how much rice you need is dependant upon how much sushi you're making, so I'll let you judge that for yourself. However, three cups was all the rice that I used to make what's in the pictures later in the thread.

The general recipe for rice is this:

2c Short-grain rice, washed.
2c Water
1/4c Rice Vinegar
1tsp Sugar
1 Rice Cooker

You will need to wash the rice before cooking it, just to clean all the extra junk off of it. Run the rice in a strainer under cold water, until the water flowing through it runs clear. It doesn't take very long, and it tastes so much better. 
  
 
 Step 1:

You'll want to measure out 1/4c of rice vinegar and dissolve the sugar into it. Add this to the 2c of water and washed rice in your rice cooker. Hit the switch to send it into cooking mode, and go do something else for a bit. When it's done cooking, you will have something that looks like this:

Fresh out of the cooker, the rice will be too hot to handle, much less to form to make sushi. So, let it cool off until you can work with it. I suggest putting it under a fan, to speed the process. Don't let the rice go cold, though, it needs to retain a bit of warmth. Don't ask me why, it just does.