Cream Stew

So, after much contemplation I made cream stew today. I wanted to do it the way it looks like in the picture, but I really didn't want to go buy potatoes so I just used whatever vegetables I had on me. Now that I think of it, potatoes would have been good to use 'cause there's starch in there so the stew would have thickened easily without any rue. Oh well.

I decided not to use rue though, which is kind of a bold move on my part 'cause the vegetables I used have a tendency to shrink and release water so the stew's only going to get more watery from here on out ^_^;;;; Yeah, I used broccoli, zucchini and carrots. Broccoli and zucchini are full of water so ... my stew's going to be pretty runny later on lol ^_^; If I added some rue, I was afraid that I'd make it too thick. My stew has a tendency to become all gelatin-y the next day after I add in rue made from scratch so... I try not to add any in =_=; I guess cooking is still in the trial & error stages.

I'm not going to be here next week so that's why I wanted to use up all my vegetables and cook once so that I'll have food throughout the week before I fly back up to see my family for Thanksgiving. I didn't want my good ingredients to go to waste while I'm gone. Plus, I can freeze stew and thaw it out to eat when I get back ^_^

I can't believe I'm going home soon. It feels really surreal to me so I'm not really all that excited, but I'm going to be really happy when I get back. My friend whose picking me up at the airport is really excited to see me and I'm really excited to see her too. I really miss my friends back home. It seems like all my really good friends live really far away from me and only the ones that bog me down live close to me T__T. Why is that? Oh well ^_^ not going to think about it. I'm just glad that I'll be able to take a nice vacation away from here again.