{"id":948,"date":"2011-01-23T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-01-23T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T01:18:27","slug":"helens-chicago-cassoulet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/recipes\/helens-chicago-cassoulet\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen&#8217;s Chicago Cassoulet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassoulet Helen made for us in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: The recipe can be halved.<\/p>\n<p>2 cups dried canellini or great northern beans, soaked overnight or quick-soaked<br \/>\nPork shoulder or fresh ham cut into large chunks and trimmed<br \/>\n6-8 brats, cut in 3rds<br \/>\n1 onion, diced<br \/>\n2 stalks celery, diced<br \/>\n3 cloves garlic, minced<br \/>\n2 large carrots, in 1\/2 inch pieces<br \/>\n1 TBS thyme<br \/>\n2 bay leaves<br \/>\nsalt and pepper<br \/>\n1 can diced tomatoes<br \/>\n2 TBS tomato paste<br \/>\n1\/2 cup white wine<br \/>\n4 cups broth<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups bread crumbs<br \/>\nolive oil<\/p>\n<p>In large dutch oven, brown pork in olive oil.\u00a0 Remove from pan.\u00a0 Add onions, celery, carrot, and saute until translucent over medium heat.\u00a0 Add tomato paste, garlic, and thyme and saute for 3 minutes.\u00a0 Add canned tomatoes, broth, wine, bay, salt and pepper, and stir until combined.\u00a0 Add beans and meats.\u00a0 Bring to simmer, then place in preheated 325 oven, uncovered, for 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Increase oven to 375.\u00a0 Combine bread crumbs with 2-3 TBS olive oil, sprinkle on top of cassoulet and return to oven for 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>Let stand 10-15 minutes before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassoulet Helen made for us in Chicago. NOTE: The recipe can be halved. 2 cups dried canellini or great northern beans, soaked overnight or quick-soaked Pork shoulder or fresh ham cut into large chunks and trimmed 6-8 brats, cut in 3rds 1 onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[38,27],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}