http://feast-blog.com/the-joy-that-is-cassoulet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-joy-that-is-cassoulet A Beautiful Moment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 http://feast-blog.com/the-joy-that-is-cassoulet/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:30:47 +0000 http://feast-blog.com/?p=68#comment-44 The food world is a generous one indeed! Love your story about ‘borrowing’ Paula W’s cassole. I’ve been blogging Cassoulet all winter; it must be in the air. btw, I will be exporting French cassoles soon, so will keep you posted.
Happy New Year from SW France!

]]> http://feast-blog.com/the-joy-that-is-cassoulet/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:40:52 +0000 http://feast-blog.com/?p=68#comment-43 I found a “cassoulet pot” on Ebay but it was really small. The seller has larger ones at his website, http://www.instawares.com. I’ll be having a cassoulet cook-off with my daughter, who works at D’Artagnan, using the D’Artagnan kit. I’m making mine in a crockpot the way I made chulent years ago. The first time I tasted cassoulet I thought it WAS chulent. Chulent is a similar dish made for the Jewish Sabbath. My mother-in-law remembers taking her mother’s chulent pot to the neighborhood bakery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to cook overnight in the ovens. They covered the pot with wax paper and it developed a nice crust on the top, which the kids fought over. My crockpot chulent came out the same way. My mother-in-law is convinced the French stole the recipe for cassoulet from the Jewish chulent. Who knows….but they are very similar dishes.

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