Category: Poultry

Bresse avec morilles
Main dish Mushrooms Poultry
18th June 2022

Bresse chicken, morels, and yellow wine

The Doubs area is in the east of France, between the Jura and Switzerland, and is blessed with good products such as the Bresse chicken. These birds with red combs, white feathers and dark blue feet symbolise the French flag. Their special treatment makes them a reference in gastronomy. The yellow wine is a strong kid of wine with a taste close to sherry and […]

Poultry
14th September 2019

Free-range chicken in a casserole

There is free-range and free-range.. The poultry on sale at the butcher’s or in the supermarket may be labelled free-range but that does not mean they could roam about the farm as their ancestors. There are some poultry farmers around here with large barns where the birds can actually move around and are not squeezed together in cages. We also know some people that keep […]

Mongetado
Beans Main dish Pork Poultry Sausages
5th March 2018

Mounjetado/Mongetado – cassoulet in Ariège

There are a lot of recipes for cassoulet here in the southwest of France. Castelnaudary, Carcassonne or Toulouse fight for the crown of the best recipe or the most original one. Cassoulet is a hearty dish and meant for winter, but restaurants here serve it to tourists in the summer when a lighter diet may be called for. The origin of the dish goes far […]

Roast rabbit
Main dish Poultry
4th December 2017

Whole roasted rabbit

By chance, this post is about rabbit, just as the previous one from some time ago (busy, busy). I made it after reading “Un dîner à poils ou plumes” by Stéphane Reynaud — a lovely cookbook with nice pictures. His warning with this recipe was “not for sensitive souls” and that was not without cause as the picture of my rabbit on Facebook drew various […]

Main dish Poultry Vegetables
18th September 2017

Lapin Lagarde – rabbit legs in vegetable stew

I am trying out a new online fresh retailer, Tauziet et Co, that allows me to buy goods direct from the producer in southwest France. There is plenty available around here, but not everything. The more you order the smaller the transport fee, so when I do order it is a full carton. That is how two rabbit legs ended up in my freezer. I […]