cassoulet
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cassoulet (plural cassoulets)
A rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
Aside from bar-b-que, cassoulet, duck confit, and a patty melt, a burger smothered with fried onions topped with melted swiss cheese and served between slices of griddled rye bread, fried chicken is my all-time favorite food.
In France, right around the time, regional cuisine was being lumped into some kind of a national identity, as soldiers traveling during the First World War got to know the cassoulet of their countrymen in the South, the crepes in the North.
Approaching the cassoulet with flexibility gives it staying power as one of the few regular items on Heartland's always-evolving menu.
Dang Neil I'm sitting here now 4am with bread rising and all I can think about now is smoked lamb rack on a potato hash with a haricot bean cassoulet - gadfry oh I'd love to try that, even read about you trying it would help.
Ropes of Toulouse sausage form a meaty spiral, in case you feel like making cassoulet.