What is a cassoulet?
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A rich, slow-cooked bean stew or casserole originating in the south of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white haricot beans. The dish is named after the cassole, the distinctive deep round earthenware pot with slanting sides in which cassoulet is ideally cooked.
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Cassoulet (from Occitan caçolet [kasuˈlet]) is a rich, slow-cooked bean stew or casserole originating in the south of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white haricot beans. The dish is named after the cassole, the distinctive deep round earthenware pot with slanting sides in which cassoulet is ideally cooked. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassoulet
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Cassoulet actually means casserole in French, and it's the name of an earthenware dish that the cassoulet was cooked in, gratineed in. The main ingredient is haricot beans, a white bean and then different meats are added, according to the region the cassoulet came from. Toulouse Cassoulet adds sausage, leg of lamb and confit. Limoux adds pigs tail, Perigord uses a lot of goose like the neck and confit. Carcassone uses lamb and partridge. Whataever the combination, it ends up being this wonderful rich concoction. Add leeks, tomatoes and onions and you've got French dish for the gods.
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Heavenly stew best enjoyed with a great glass of cheap merlot or cabernet (after giving a prayer of thanks to God) on cold foggy December morning after a long motorcycle ride in the wet damp French countryside where every part of your body is soaked and cold. It tastes even better when the guy serving it is some half-Italian old man who keeps bugging you about jazz and blues and notes that since you are reading Proust you must be cool (of course which you are not because you are a Bible believing Christian- and of course he never finds out). It's even more heavenly when he gives a small cut of baguette from last night to wipe the bowl clean with. The final mingling of flavors and sensation kicks in when he offers you a filterless Gitane cigarette which you take graciously but skip on thanking the Lord for. At this point its worth noting that he hasn't seen the King James Bible in the backpack. That whole scene to me is a cassoulet.
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a casserole in it's developmental stage.
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