White Bean and Butternut Squash Stew

Obviously on a soup/stew kick.

This recipe from The Kind Diet, a spin on Black Soybean and Kabocha Squash stew, was super, super sweet.  My fault since I left out the 2 cups of tomatoes it called for.  Those tomatoes would have cut the sweetness.  I just was tired of tomatoes in my soup.

Even with tomatoes though it would have been sweet. One cup of [expensive] mirin made sure of that.

I'm thinking of draining and rinsing the remaining squash and beans and eating them like that.