Winter is well and truly here, and I don’t know about you
all, but I need some pure comfort food. I’m talking meat, I’m talking root
vegetables and I’m talking one-pot so you don’t have much cleaning to face
afterwards, when you’re all full and cosy.
Well hello, cassoulet.
This is a cosy winter stew if ever I saw one. Except, it’s
better than a stew (not a huge stew fan, sorry Ireland). It’s flavourful and
colourful and warming and filling and only a little stodgy, in that good way
that you need sometimes when you’ve come in from the rain and Christmas shopping and you’re all cold
and hungry and in need of rejuvenation.
I basically threw in whatever veggies I had,
and it made one really simple and delicious meal. For an authentic French
experience (this dish has its origins there, after all) serve with a hunk of
baguette.
