Check it out – add a few ingredients to your next shopping list and get stuck in with the kids this World Sushi Day, or any day. Fill the lunch boxes or the dinner table. Got a train set? You could even make your very own sushi train. For the super health conscious, you could even use brown rice – but yeah, my kids are not eating that.

OR if you have no idea why you have landed on this page, you might prefer to check out our favourite places to buy Sushi HERE

To make enough sushi for four kids lunch boxes you’ll need:

1 cup sushi rice

3 sheets sushi nori (seaweed paper)

1 sushi mat (or you might like to use a sushi press)

2 table spoons sushi seasoning (or make sushi su with 2 table spoons rice vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar + pinch salt)

Suggested fillings:

Panko crumbed chicken schnitzel, avocado slices, kewpie mayonnaise, tinned tuna, cooked prawn, cucumber sticks, capsicum sticks, left over roast chicken, smoked salmon, cream cheese, sesame seeds, pretty much any thing you feel like putting in and rolling up……

Steps:

Cook your rice (can be done ahead, but warm rice is also fine). You can use a rice cooker or use the stove top absorption method. Follow your packet instructions or this is what we do:

Absorption: 1 cup rinsed uncooked rice and 1+ 1/2 cups of cold water into a saucepan with a lid on it. Bring to the boil, turn down to a slow simmer and leave it for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool (lid off) for 10 minutes.

Mix in 2 tablespoons of sushi rice seasoning, or your home made vinegar sushi su (give it a taste, some people like 3 tablespoons – less is more for us.)

While your rice is cooking, prep your sushi fillings. Think veggie strips, and maybe a protein.

We like to panko crumb strips of chicken breast. You could buy chicken schnitzel already crumbed. Even better, plan your dinner the night before to include left over sushi fillings. Some kids like it as simple as a strip of cucumber or avocado only.

Place a sushi mat on your clean bench – sticks running horizontal. Place a sheet of nori shiny side down.

Using wet hands, press a thin layer of cooked cooled rice all over the sheet, leaving a 3cm wide strip along the edge furthest from you.

Place your fillings along the middle of the rice in a line. Stack them on top of each other, or keep them close together. Don’t forget to add a generous line of mayo – if you are that way inclined.

Now we roll!!!! Hold filing in place while you roll the mat over to envelope the rice and filling. Roll it up with gentle pressure, imagine you are rolling wrapping paper back onto the roll.

Unroll the matt and use a sharp knife to slice sushi into 1.5cm rounds or larger rolls.

Our tip if you are sending in school lunchboxes, leave them as long rolls and tightly glad wrap them to keep the rice soft and fresh, slice when packing lunch boxes, or simply cut the long sushi into two 10cm lengths and send bigger.

Don’t forget to serve with your favourite dipping sauce, some pickled ginger, soy or perhaps wasabi for the brave, and then stuff that sushi into your head flat out!

(We like to eat these with in 24 hours for freshness, we also like to wash our drink bottles out every day, but now I’m just bragging honestly.)

Here’s the pick of the bunch:

Not just another biscuit! Opa means “wow” in Spanish and that’s exactly what we thought when we tried these 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ made, artisan treats. Filled with indulgent Dulce de Leche and all made from scratch, you can choose Chocolate Alfajores (our favourite), Coconut, Walnut or Cornflour and trust us they are all mouthwatering. Visit Opa Alfajores Café at 314 Pulteney Street in the city or find them at 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ Showground Farmers Market. We are told the Empanadas are pretty amazing too – like a little bit of authentic South America right here at home. Checking out their Instagram is a must…….

91¹û¶³´«Ã½’s naughtiest cookies, loaded with all of the best bits! Find this shop windown on Hutt Street in the city or order online. They also make epic fat slices and our tip? Pop these bad boi’s in the microwave for thirty seconds and gobble them warm. Perfect gift for any occasion, they come boxed and ready to tuck under your arm for any event! If you are ordering online you can do that any time but best is to order on a Tuesday as they ship every Wednesday!

These are the bomb!

Mouth watering oversize New York Style Cookies, Lactation Cookies, Cookie Pies and more. If your day is lucky enough to see you stumble into a café that stocks these bombs of deliciousness you’ll know two things: 1. Only excellent cafes stock them and 2. You MUST buy at least a couple (one for now, one for ‘Ron…. or the kids if you’re feeling generous). We LOVE living in the age of the internet, this clever artisan has a swanky, easy to navigate website and you can literally get this goodness delivered to your door with a bit of prior planning and a few clicks. Kinda gooey and indulgent. Kinda life changing. Yep that good.  PS order heaps – they are individually wrapped, have a brilliant shelf life and you can freeze them. Know a breastfeeding Mum? This.

Righto, if you are in the 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ Hills and you want ‘Sugar Cookies’ this is your gal. Queen of a custom bake, queen of the marbled fondant and every thing in between! We actually decided to send this lot of cookies out to KiA Dad Tim and what better option to select than printing edible photos of his own face on a cookie. YOUR HEAD ON A COOKIE. YEP. You can also have embossed cookies, party cookies, wedding favours and if you ask really nicely Nicole might even make you a custom birthday cake, she’s pretty talented. Crafty and popular, so be organised – this is a hand made artisan product, not a same day delivery – I bet she already has half of next year booked! These cookies were buttery with the perfect amount of crispness and sweet as the day at home with a toddler is long. Seriously put some one you love on a cookie and they will never ever ever forget you. Please message via the Facebook page.

Hand made macarons like you have never seen before. They are SO bloody good they might even be my favourite thing about living in South Australia. Regular or double filled and dressed to impress, the creativity of these artisans has no limits. Find them in their hidden (and epic) little shop front at 3/4 Clement Terrace, Christies Beach or stalk one of their many loyal local stockists. Don’t want to leave home? Order your macs on line including custom orders. Seriously don’t gift a candle, gift a box of these delicate delicious feasts for the senses. Dare you not to dribble on your phone screen when you follow them on Instagram.

It’s no secret we are long time Kytons lovers, these cookies are crisp and delicious. Perfectly made to share with friends in chocolate chip, macadamia and white chocolate, butter shortbread fingers or Christmas varieties. Try stopping at just one! The best part? Buy a sensible sized box, or buy them by the bucket! Ok that’s not as big as it sounds, but it’s pretty fun. Kytons are a South Australian owned, family run business. They are hand on heart great people and I don’t think a week goes by where we don’t see them supporting other fantastic South Australian’s. You can visit their retail bakery in Edwardstown, find them in many supermarkets and fruit and veg stores, order online or even better RUN A SCHOOL OR CLUB FUNDRAISER WITH THEM. Now, I know this is about cookies but obviously you have been under a rock if you didn’t know that Kytons make 91¹û¶³´«Ã½’s most iconic Christmas Range, Hot Cross Buns and Lamingtons too!

Holey Kingston Biscuit! Golden crunch oat biscuits sandwiched together with a rich chocolate filling, get in my belly. These oversized home made Kingston’s are everything. There are a lot of perfect bikkies coming out of this very talented woman’s kitchen, but we fell in love with these monsters at one of 91¹û¶³´«Ã½’s most on fleek new venue’s What The Croque! Café and well, we wouldn’t leave until we had the details. Now, let’s not judge KiA Dad Tim, but I think he consumed more of these than was probably entirely necessary. Seriously Some one should win Australian of the year for these. Apparently the original Kingston dates back to the early 1900’s and is actually and Australian biscuit. 

Bean & Bikkie Co. Ginger Bread Cafe

Everyone loves gingerbread. The smell is like a magnet for the food enthusiast, drawing you in off the street like a mermaid’s song. We have long been admirers of Bean and Bikkie Co and are sad to see they are no longer in Hahndorf, however we have popped past their Beulah Park location this week (top of The Parade) and it’s nothing short of brilliant. Made on-site, by hand, using the finest locally sourced ingredients, this would have to be right up there with the best gingerbread on offer in SA. They have a huge range, which allows you to really cater your pick to your budget. We couldn’t go past these huge reindeer on a stick and thought for $7.50 it was excellent value. We love the complimentary gingerbread cookie provided with every coffee too plus you can eat here and the food is great. Make a visit here your Christmas tradition, or you know, all year around is good too. 

Find them here

Undoubtedly 91¹û¶³´«Ã½’s premier cookie delivery service, offering same day cookie satisfaction. These big thikk boii’s are almost a meal. The perfectly surprising flavour combo’s this team come up with deserves some kind of award honestly because there is nothing boring about the mouth watering New York Style cookies that we sampled. Think Honey Crackle, Red Velvet & White Chocolate, Fairy Bread, Gingerbread Caramel and more…..but don’t take our word for it, check out their website. This is another example of a great easy to use www, seriously why gift any thing else? A box of cookies this good is all you will ever need!

Cookies By Jess, for local inner northern suburbs pick up or delivery Australia wide, may just be the prettiest, most finely detailed beautiful and delicious Sugar Cookies in 91¹û¶³´«Ã½. Made with fresh ingredients and created with so much passion and love, Jess will work with you to create the perfect look and style to suit any gift or event. First birthday? Sorted. Need to impress the mother in law? Done. We were lucky to get our hands on one of her current Festive Packs, and can we just say it was almost too cute to eat, but too droolworthy not to. Yum. 
Check out all of the creative handy work on Instagram @cookiesbyjessadelaide and contact her to chat about your next event or special delivery that can’t go without cookies! 

This is a beautiful success story of a small South Australian mother and daughter business outgrowing their home kitchen some years ago and now operating commercially in North 91¹û¶³´«Ã½. Supplying Cafe’s and counter tops, what a lot of people don’t know is that public orders are also most welcome. With an extensive range the best thing to do is scroll their functional website to find your favourites. These travel and store well and are the most professionally individually packaged cookies we have found, while still ringing true to a gorgeous hand made quality and taste. 10/10 for this product. 

These are the classics. The good old days bikkies that start with creamed butter and sugar with original and unique recipes that follow to ensure a flavour sensation that can’t be equalled. Containing only the freshest of ingredients, these beauties are fun, delicious, obviously handmade, plus they are also preservative and additive free. You will find these on counter tops of some of 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ favourite cafes and delis but you can also order for your kids parties, catering events, school celebrations or any excuse at all really. We particularly hunted this little team down for their smiley cookies – they are just the best! There are also some pretty nostalgic slices on offer and bakery door sales by prior arrangement are welcome.

The only sugar cookie artist you need if you live south of 91¹û¶³´«Ã½. What a talent! Megan can safely post your orders Australia wide, and local pick ups are welcome. Such a lot of time and passion goes into these hand baked and decorated works of art, make sure you have some decent lead time for your request. From christenings, to weddings, corporate events to fundraisers there are so many reasons to call on a small business with a product this good! Love the rise of the custom cookie here in Australia – so fun and so delicious and really special when something has been made just for your, to your brief. We were blown away with our little delivery.

We found another fun use for those [slightly annoying but ever consuming] trending pop it figit toys. Use them as a chocolate mould! Look, we are not going to claim it as our own idea, but we did have to give it a crack when we came accross it online, and we are pretty chuffed with the results.

What a fun school holidays idea!

What you will need:

One or more pop it figits, washed in warm soapy water, rinsed and dry. [We like to buy from 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ business ]

A block of your favourite chocolate

Enough M&M’s to fill as many pop it holes as you desire [I mean how many is ‘enough’ when you are a kid? Go the party sized bag.]

Microwave proof jug or dish to melt your choccy – oh yeah and a microwave, although honestly we don’t have one and melted our chocolate over a water bath, same same – what ever spins your wheel.

Rubber scraper or spoon

Instructions:

Put an M&M in each hole of your pop it. You could also use nuts or sprinkles, we found smarties too big.

If you have OCD like we do, the M&M logo needs to face down so as you can see it when you turn the chocolates out of the mould.

Melt you choccy of choice. Remeber slowly slowly with chocolate. Try 20 second bursts in the microwave and stir in between.

Tip melted chocolate over the M&M’s in the mould, smooth it over / level it off

Place in fridge 30 mins +

Carefully turn out your chocolate rows and consume immeadiately. Best enjoyed by fighting siblings, especially when there is an odd number of chocolate rows.

God speed.

*Yes yes, we know this is not healthy, but it’s fun, and for a birthday party or a svhool holiday treat. Thank you in advance to all of the people who take the time to point this out to us. Erry time.

Whats on the board:

YES it is all gluten free! You can switch it up if you don’t have that need – but we think this looks pretty awesome regardless.

Nutella

Caramel topping (Cottee’s)

Sprinkles (Dollar Sweets)

Marshmallows (Pascall)

Strawberries

Banana

Ice Cream (Peters)

GF Pancake Stack

Gluten Free Buttermilk Pancake Recipe

1cup gf sr flour

1/4 cup gf plain flour

1 tbsp caster sugar

1 cup buttermilk (or milk or *milk with a dash of white vinegar left to sit for five)

2 eggs

Smidge of butter for cooking

Does any one REALLY need a method for pancakes…..ah well, here goes:

1. Heat pan over medium heat. Melt butter to grease. 2. Reduce heat to low and pour approx 2 tbsp of batter into pan. 3. Cook until bubbles appear and surface appears to dry out a little. 4. Flip pancakes over; cook until lightly browned. 5. Transfer to board, top with your selection of goodies. 6. Smother in treats and eat with face hole.

*legit according to my 94 year old neighbour Betty, milk with a dash of white vinegar turns into buttermilk if you leave it sit for five minutes or so. Who am I to question it, 94 year olds surely know their shit so I am taking it as gospel.

2 cups SR Flour

Pinch of salt

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup water

1 tsp sugar

30g chopped cold butter

suggested optional flavours

Handful of:

Frozen raspberries and white chocolate chips OR

Frozen or fresh blueberries OR

Sultanas OR

Grated cheese and chopped chives

METHOD:

Place butter and flour together in a large bowl and rub with your fingers until resembles breadcrumbs. Add sugar, milk and water and chosen flavour, if any, and stir until a sticky dough. 

Place dough on a floured surface and knead gently into a ball, then squash or roll it to 2cm thickness, cut with a cutter and place in a greased or lined tin. Brush with milk to glaze and bake for 12-20 mins at 200 degrees, this will depend on your oven so watch them!

Serve with butter and enjoy!

Big thanks to our friend Amy from for sharing her recipe and photos with us!

Ingredients:

• 3 Cups of flour
• 125 grams of melted butter
• 1/4 cup condensed milk
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• m and m’s

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees
• Line a tray with baking paper
• Melt butter in microwave for 15 seconds
• Add sugar and mix to creamy
• Add flour to a bowl
• Add condensed milk and butter mix to the flour
• Mix well
• Roll into approx. 2 inch balls and flatten to look like biscuits
• Add m and m’s to the top of the cookies
• Place in oven and bake for 15-20 mins

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