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Sweet potato cake

While riding around on my new bicycle (!!) last weekend, I chanced across a small fruit-and-vegetable stand selling what I assume are farm-fresh vegetables. I can't tell, of course, since there's no way I could read this information even if it was advertised, or even ask, but I went in anyway and came out with numerous healthy treats, among them some sweet potatoes, which I just discovered on my top shelf this evening!

Sweet potato cakes are a traditional Japanese treat, naturally gluten-free, and healthy for you, so I figured I'd try my hand at them, since I'm actually not quite sure what else to do with Japanese sweet potatoes. Herein lies the recipe:

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I have committed a Cooking Sin...

...I baked first and now I just want to eat that. And not make dinner. Even though dinner is going to be delicious, I can't stop eating it.

"It" being a not-particularly-photogenic banana bread.

Told you.

Recipe follows...

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Pumpkin lasagne stew

People in Japan love their pumpkins - it's delicious barbequed, pan-fried, or baked: the other day, I decided to try baked! This recipe is modified from one that Skittles sent me from her mother's cookbook; apparently the original uses butternut squash, but I have yet to find one of those in Japan, and pumpkin turned out to be a delicious (and cheap!) substitute.

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