Weekend Cooking/Paris in July: Cassoulet

I mentioned a few weeks ago that we recently were given a Crockpot pressure cooker/slow cooker  combo thingy, so we have been busy trying new recipes, especially since we bought a very clever Women's Weekly cookbook recently which has both a slow cooker and pressure cooker version of recipes. There are lots of recipes that we want to try in this cookbook as evidenced by all these little bits of paper wedged in the book!

So far we we have tried making a green curry chicken which was in the recipes that came with the gadget. We might keep looking for another recipe. We also tried a roasted carrot and sweet potato soup which wasn't a success either, but the other things we have made were great! They include barbecue pork ribs for 4 July (delicious), pork belly and then this week, in honour of Paris in July, we made cassoulet.

A traditional cassoulet is made in a dish of the same name, and can include confit duck as well as sausages and beans. We didn't have either the traditional dish or confit duck, but instead we used sausages, lamb shoulder,and bacon. Despite not being totally traditional, this was delicious!! It was perfect for a cold winner's night dinner and we will definitely be having it again this winter.

Because the recipe can be done two ways I am going to share images from the book. For every recipe there is a picture of the ingredients required and the finished product and then the two different versions of the recipe. It's very effective as a way to share a recipe.

I am also sharing this post with Paris in July hosted by Thyme for Tea.

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