I did this for several years. Not sure what grocery store, but they had a complete kit with the bamboo mat and also the seaweed, and can't remember all the other items. Made our own for quite a while. We got hooked when we went visiting on the coast and ate it for the first time about 15 years ago. We have moved to the coast and can find it at most restaurants now, and also have a friend that makes it all the time and loves to share with us. Hopefully you have a speciality store in your area that has all the supplies. When we were making our own the store also sold the smoked salmon for sushi. Good luck in finding the items. We love sushi.

Rho, I have seen those really expensive machines, and I know that ,beyond a doubt, there are not enough garments or anything else that I could produce in one lifetime to warrant the price of those machines. Just to buy the thread for the embroidery function can be prohibitive. And, I really don't believe that there is any more pleasure to be gotten from them, either. Also, many times, the machines that offer fewer functions are really the best. I wish that I had, maybe, just bought a new sewing machine instead of a serger. Now I sew with my old mechanical Bernina with a backup of an old Singer 401 from the 50s the was my moms and that I learned to sew on. All I want is old school. So much of modern life suffers from what I call "style over substance, and, the style sucks". So, where does that leave the substance? The form is not pleasing and the function is even worse. Much of it is a lose/lose affair, in my opinion. It has become difficult to find just a well made somethingortheother. So many things come loaded with functions that you never knew you needed or wanted and still don't need or want. It is all about upsellling things that are really of little value.

Wow, I love all the crafts you all made! Right before Thanksgiving I started working on Christmas decorations for our home. I crafted a table centerpiece, 3 swags and 2 potted 3' Christmas trees, using Dollar Tree mini Christmas trees. They were fairly cheap to make and I think they turned out great.

LOL! PM, the closest I have to the grange is the black family reunion cookbook, as in not at all like the grange. But there could be a recipe in there. i didn't think to look. Recently, I got a compilation reprint the suffragist's cookbook, maybe a bit like the grange but urban, which might also have one. I think all my community cookbooks are Jewish, which would have plenty of eggs, but no béchamel with turkey because the great rabbis had a vote a couple thousand years ago (I forget the year) and by one vote decided that milk and birds had to be at separate meals even though birds don't have mother's milk, and the whole reasoning for separating them at all is that it would be cruel to kill mama cow's calf and then cook it in her milk. (The original prohibition was actually referring to a pagan thing where they did just that, and was really about not doing pagan things, but continued on the kindness to cows (goats, sheep, etc.) policy.)