Is summer really setting in?

After weeks of shivering under a jacket, i am finally starting to perspire even in a T shirt.

Somehow it feels a little like summer already.

We had neba neba soba for lunch

Neba neba describes the stickiness of all the toppings.

Okra, natto, nameko, mozuku seaweed make the dish super gooey after you mix it.

plus top with a poached egg and you get a super sticky soba lunch.

To some, this might be gross, but if you like the stickyness, it is said to energise you on a hot and restless day.

Dinner was a one dish affair cos my afternoon nap lasted till evening time, which made me go uh oh, i was supposed to make dinner.

Beef and beans vegetable soup topped with toasted cheese cubes

with crispy croissant sticks

(made speedily with frozen pie sheets)

Since it was children's day yesterday and there are lots of eggs in the fridge, my hands were just itching to bake something.

Though we ended up with something than didn't need eggs.

Kinako (roasted soy bean powder) cheese cake

Started on a happy note and a growling tummy after smelling those fragrant biscuit crumbs,

but halfway through when i was about to do my favourite whip cream, opened the ice compartment and found ZERO ice cubes. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It irks me whenever i need ice and there is no ice cos it takes TIME to make them.

Went ahead and started whipping though. whipped and whipped, but the cream started to curd!

double AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! so indeed, ice is needed at the base of the whipping bow.

now i am in a lousy mood and the vacuum cleaner is blasting away, which worsens the lousy mood.

OK, made J get me another pack of cream and ice.

Mood lifts a bit. still a little sulky, cos WHY DOES MY HUSBAND LIKE CLEANING UP SO MUCH?!!!

when i poured the cream mixture into the cake tin, the fragrance of the kinako sort of melted my stress away, so we are at peace again. ^.^