Things I have done today

[lnr]

• Got up at around 10:30 to answer door
• Opened parcel and ripped 5 CDs in it
• Showered and dressed
• Ate breakfast: toast and yoghurt and fruit
• Put some washing on
• Put dinner on: a variant on cassoulet, with whole dug duck legs rather than lamb pieces
• Made lunch: tom yum noodles, then raspberries with porridge oats and yoghurt, then some biccies
• Wiped worksurfaces in kitchen, and stacked washing up more sensibly
• read and geeked a bit in between it all

I guess that's not bad really.

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

A little Googling sugegst that you have indeed pretty much re-invented the classic form (http://www.banlieusardises.com/delices/archives/000358.html) of the dish!

[sparrowsion]

The only cassoulet I've encountered had has been vegetarian with a huge variety of beans. From the way it was referred to as just "cassoulet" not qualified by "vegetarian" or "bean" I wouldn't have guessed there was any other variety.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

"Cassoulet" isn't vegetarian at all. As I understand it, while the main ingredient is indeed haricot beans, the classic cassoulet also contains either duck or goose (in its own fat, to form what is called the "confit"), pork, and Toulouse sausage.
The dish dates back from the Hundred Years' War where some besieged Frenchmen in the town of Castelnaudary, near Toulouse, had cooked a big stew using their rations of beans and preserved meats, and feeling fortified by that, they were able to fight off the English.