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[madbaker]

I had a nice boys' night out dinner with the fuzzy upstairs neighbor last night. Cassoulet at Le Central, yum. With the rainy weather, it was the first time I got to wear the trench coat and fedora with matching band. If it had been foggy rather than stormy, I would have felt all Bogey-like.

Name-dropping spot of the evening: Carmen Policy and his wife having dinner there. (He used to manage the 49ers.)

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[ornerie.livejournal.com]

mmmm. cassoulet.

I'm so bummed my local french bistro closed. now the only place to get it is le gourmand for a jillion dollars :( (and somehow paying a jillion dollars for french frank and beans seems wrong.... :) )

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that Carmen Policy has an interesting name, as if someone assigned it to him by picking random fruit-related entertainment and legal terms.

* The Carmen Policy.

* Your Miranda Rights.

* Exploited Banana Republic.

That sort of thing.

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

I have a cassoulet question...
Last year I had a dish in Belgium that they called cassoulet, but it was unlike any variation I've had here. It was prawns in a cheesey creamy sauce that tasted like it had some kind of booze in it as well. They served it with a huge basket of bread to sop up all the cheesey goodness with. I've been on a quest for a similar recipe since I returned, but am getting nowhere. None of the cassoulet recipes I've seen so far even remotely resemble that. Any suggestions on where I should look next?