Jman / Others - if you guys like Japanese-style curry, this is an easy curry dish.
Cube meat of choice (beef, lamb, chicken), cut up some veggies and starch (carrots, onions, potatoes whatever). Stir-fry in large skillet. Add this:
Or this:
Simmer in skillet 'til curry sauce thickens, dump over rice or egg noodles and you are done.
Also second the rice cooker / steamer as great, versatile appliance. I just splurged on a fuzzy logic rice cooker, and while it was pretty expensive, the fact that it handles multiple grains of rice (even brown rice, which my previous, cheap rice cookers failed to cook through), as well as cooking steel cut oats, oatmeal, pudding, and acting as a steamer, was worth it in my mind.
-Al