Southwest Dishes

A Texas Wine and Food Experience - Gone to the Dogs What better way to appreciate wine and food in Texas but through a common appreciation of dogs. To be specific, last night’s wine and food experience would not have...

Don't know Wine Access' policy regarding reprints, but, nonetheless, the writing got me reaching for my travel agent and a quick trip to southern France. The cassoulet, and the wine, definitely sound yummy... ;-)

I just read this on wine access, and found it interesting. I love a full, rich, chewy wine. Yet, to pay the type of $$$ for a true representation of a good Chateauneuf-du-Pape that is aged well, I cannot and will not. I...

I do a cassoulet dinner every year. Many wines to pair with the complex, layered flavors. I can't wait for this years and look forward to writing about it.

Oh, it was ! The cassoulet was, let's say, a semi-industrial cassoulet, but it was OK ! Right now, it's time to harvest those white beans needed for cassoulet. I'll cook some next week... If you want to taste, you're...

Satiated from a delicious meal, naps in the fields. Sounds positively bucolic! Love that cassoulet, especially with local wines...

The meal was really nice : - countryside soup with goose confit (known also as "garbure") - assiette de charcuterie = duck paté, raw ham, pork paté - cassoulet (white beans, goose confit, Toulouse saussage, pork,...) -...

Those wines, Vins doux naturels (Sweet natural wines ?) are really delicious, and superb when they're old (20, 30, 40, 50 years old: a sweet concentrate of roasted nuts, dried fruits and figs, apricot, honney, tabacco,...

Not I but I have indulged in my fair share of (pork charcuterie, cassoulet, fat goose and duck, foie gras, patés, ...) and then some! How about sharing some of your thoughts here instead of just referring people to yous...