It’s Thursday night, one more work day and the weekend will be upon us once again. To celebrate this last night before the weekend, I decided to cook up a dinner. I’ve wanted to make a soba noodle dish for a while. Finally, I got my hands on a great recipe, thanks to my Food and Wine magazine subscription.

This was a last minute decision, so after work I stopped by an Asian market to pick up the missing ingredients. I spent at least 30 minutes looking for tamari and agave syrup (as listed in the recipe) and still came up empty handed. So in the interest of time I decided to wing it and got honey and garlic sauce instead. Besides the sauce substitution, I also opted for a frying pan to cook the shrimp (in the interest of time, as well as due to lack of a grill). Other then the above mentioned substitutions, I pretty much followed the recipe (conveniently provided in the link above).

Now that I’ve gone on and on about how tonight’s dinner came about, here is the actual dinner itself.

To report, dinner was delicious, even with all the substitutions.