Mom’s Pot-Cooked “Roast Beef”

Until I reached late elementary school age we did not have an oven at home, so my mother cooked beef roast in her way, in a pot. She proudly called it rosuto-bífu, “roast beef,” although it had little relationship to real roast beef. Even after my mother obtained an oven, she continued cooking her beef in this way, until one day my sister came back from her Western cooking class with an authentic roast beef recipe. My mother was surely impressed with this new preparation.

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