Easter rolls on by

yesterday we had an easter sushi rolling dinner party. quite impromptu and quite fun. it was our first ever and i highly recommend it. although, here is a tip: sushi grade fish is not just fancy expensive fish, but more safe for eating raw. this we did not know. deciding to host a sushi rolling party 3 hours before the guests are to arrive, on easter sunday, can cause a problem. we started at whole foods thinking that even if they do not have "sushi grade" they certainly have good-enough-for-us grade. but the friendly wholefoods lady explained that we were being dumb (in a nice way). sushi-grade fish doesnt touch any other fish and has less bacteria blah blah, so its safer. hm, very interesting...now what do we do? we go to wegmans of course. wegmans is this quite fantastic phenomenon of a grocery store. its sort of heavenly. growing up in nebraska i had never seen such phenomenons as whole foods and wegmans before moving to this land of more pretentious foodies (which, i guess, i am, since i love it). omaha does have a whole foods now, but wegmans is something else. man. and it provided us with sushi-grade tuna and salmon from sustainable wild fishing areas. go wegmans, we love you.

so, although i admittedly am not even really into sushi, the rolls are really fun - its art! and its food! and somehow it seems a great easter thing to do. though, i do certainly enjoy the more traditional deviled eggs and carrot cake. but not a hardboiled egg did i see yesterday, and thats ok too. didnt really feel too much like easter with the cold blast. but spring will come back, it always does. thats the real message of easter i think. the flowers always come back eventually, and rebirth is a happy certitude.