Sushi for beginners

I love sushi. It's one of the things I miss most about New Zealand - there, sushi is cheap and readily available and - more importantly - fresh. The stuff you can buy at supermarkets and the likes in Britain tastes like Styrofoam and I'm always seriously dubious about its freshness. The only time I can get fresh sushi living where I do (it's different if you live in London - you can get everything in London) is when I go to Milton Keynes where they have a Yo!Sushi which is a sushi restaurant chain. It's nice but quite expensive (if you eat as much as I do) and we really don't go to Milton Keynes that often anymore. So I get sushi hankerings. Today I'm rather proud to say, I made my first homemade sushi to actually taste like proper sushi. I've made it in the past, but it always lacked something. Not sure what I did differently today, but it was great! And so pretty I had to share. What a feast!

Oh, and the rice came from a bag of sushi rice I had cooked and frozen last week - even someone with as little grasp on reality as me wouldn't cook sushi rice for herself for lunch (Ok, sorry, that's patently untrue - I've done this many times, but I wouldn't do it in a temporary kitchen. I do have limits to my crazy).

Et voila! Or, Yo! It's sushi!

Fresh yellow-tail tuna and avocado sushi