Boiled beef with gravy and potatoes

I like meat as much as the next carnivorous person but I really haven't acquired the taste for partially cooked beef unless it's sliced paper-thin, sukiyaki style. Oh, I eat my steak rare but it's not something I crave for. And I like roast meat as well except that I find it inconvenient to have a chopping board on the dining table where the meat is sliced during the meal. I'm very Asian when it comes to serving food. I like the lauriat style where everything is placed at the center of the table and everyone helps himself. And that should explain why I like my roast-style beef served with the vegetables and gravy in one dish.

This boiled beef with gravy and potatoes is very similar to the beef brisket swimming in gravy that I cooked a couple of years ago, an experiment probably borne out of laziness but which surprisingly turned out to be a hit among my friends. Needless to say, I have refined the recipe somewhat and I am convinced that this version is better than my older recipe.

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