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Holy Cassoulet! Kids Make a Short Version

April 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment · kids, Recipes

You can’t get more authentic southwest France than cassoulet, but the classic version–with duck confit, sausage, and various iterations of pork–takes so long to make I had no hope of introducing it to my food appreciation classes. Plus, duck confit is not a standard item at our local grocery. But our friend Kate Hill, who […]

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Homegrown Cassoulet

December 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Here’s an old-fashioned pleasure: shelling beans. We grew a hefty crop of lima beans in a our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. I let them dry on the vine and finally just the other day got around to removing the beans from the pods. I […]

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