~ Japanese Nuts

Only K would be so generous to treat people to nice (but expensive) stuff!
Japanese nuts, 80g/pack @ $6 each! Any takers?

Sesame-paste-coated (sweet) ones:

Mustard-mayonnaise-coated (spicy) ones:

Fish-roe-paste-coated (spicy) ones:

I like all, I'm such a pig!

Oh ya, being a pharmacy student (and identifying yourself in some pharmacy as one) has its own perks, hehe:

~ Mushroom and Sausage Soba

Adapted from:

Eating Pleasure

Description:
Unusual but tantalising fusion of the Eastern fungus and the Western bangers over soba~

Ingredients (1 serving):
1/2 tbsp minced ginger
5 Shiitake mushrooms
1 sausage, sliced
2 tsp oil
2 lettuce leaves, shredded
1 tbsp chopped parsley
100 ml water
1 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp corn starch, dissolved in 1 tbsp water
60 g soba, cooked

Directions:
1) Heat oil and ginger till fragrant, 2 - 3 min.
2) Sauteed mushrooms and sausage slices for 3 - 5 min till slightly browned.
3) Add in lettuce, 1/2 tbsp parsley, water and oyster sauce. Simmer for 5 min.
4) Stir in corn starch solution, and simmer till desired consistency before adding the remaining parsley.
5) Serve hot over soba.

Remarks:

K: "thrice-deli-cious" (which means "delicious deLicIoUs DELICIOUS~")

Not exactly a creative term, but still a positive comment for my attempt at a very quick dish!

~ Chocolate Avocado Milkshake

Taken from:

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Description:
Creamy concoction of avocado and milk~

Ingredients (1 serving):
1 ripe avocado
1 C milk
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions:
1) Blend all together. Serve with ice/blended with ice.

Remarks:

The avocado can really be uber squishy and oily, do handle it with care! If not you may have to do an extra step in cleaning up the place and losing some of this exotic fruit!

Since the blender is spoilt (long long time ago), I mixed this up manually. What I did was to roughly chop the avocado, and mash it up with the rest of the ingredients using a potato masher in a tall canister! Sounds fun?

~ Baked Teriyaki Salmon

Modified from:

Allrecipes

Description:
Broiled salmon coated with sticky savoury homemade teriyaki sauce~

Ingredients (4 x 6 cm x 6 cm pieces):
2 tsp cornstarch
2 tsp water
3 tbsp brown sugar
1/3 C soy sauce
2 tbsp distilled white vinegar
1 tbsp of minced garlic
1 tbsp of minced ginger
1 tsp of ground black pepper

Directions:

1) Bring all ingredients to boil till thickened, cool before using.
2) Marinate the salmon chunks in the sauce, wrap in foil and leave in the refrigerator for 30 min.
3) Bake covered in a preheated oven at 200 deg for 10 min, bast salmon with more sauce, and broil uncovered for another 10 min till slightly charred. Serve hot.

Remarks:
Slightly charred with the sweet aroma of caramelised sugar and baked fish (Mum said it was fishy), this dish will be a treat.. if it wasn't so salty. But it looked really appetising hmm-hmm:

Yeah! K bought soft nougat for me (actually, paid for MY purchase). Well, it was not as nice as the one I had before though, as it was really sweet with minimal almonds at an exorbitant price:

~ Cold Soba

Modified from:

Pinoycook

Description:
Chilled Japanese buckwheat noodles~

Ingredients (serves 3):
180 g soba noodles.
3 tbsp distilled white vinegar
6 tbsp soy sauce
6 tbsp honey
3 tsp sesame oil
Toasted sesame seeds
Sliced onions

Directions:

1) Cook soba noodles in boiling water for 5 min, plunge into cold water for 2-3 min and drain.
2) Combine vinegar, soy sauce, honey and sesame oil together, and pour onto the soba noodles.
3) Refrigerate soba with the sauce for 30 min.
4) To serve, generously top with sesame seeds and sliced onions and/or other cooked ingredients.

Remarks:

Delectable! I've spiced the soba up with some egg tamago, Shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, julienned carrots and shredded lettuce, and coupled the dish with baked teriyaki salmon.

Being the kiasu and greedy me, I'd made too much extra ingredients again. So this is my second plate of soba with all the remaining ingredients: