Cream Stew

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Cream stew is a homey Japanese dish comprising of meat and vegetables cooked in a creamy roux-based gravy.  I would think that it was influenced by the French 'blanquette de veau'.  I remembered my parents would occasionally purchase the prepared blocks of roux from the Japanese … [Read more...]

Sweet Potato Vermicelli with Meat and Vegetable Sauce

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This dish was a happy result of a change of mind while cooking dinner.  I've not had the chance to sit down and plan the week's meals ahead of time, and this has resulted in a lot of improvisations and experimentation, some of which were good and some of which were plain odd (but … [Read more...]