3 meaty cassoulet Recipes

lardons or 50 g bacon, chopped into small dice, olive oil, meaty sausages, lean pork chops, cut into large pieces, tinned beans, cannellini or navy beans or mixed beans or haricot beans or butter beans, onion, peeled & diced, carrots, peeled & diced into biggish chunks, chopped tomatoes, chicken stock, red wine, sugar, garlic cloves (or more ), breadcrumbs, bouquet garni

dried white bean , such as great northern, table salt, smoked ham hock or 1 smoked ham shank, fresh rosemary, fresh thyme, onion , left intact, garlic cloves, peeled and lightly crushed, bay leaf, cold water, head garlic, whole, olive oil, divided, kielbasa, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, button mushrooms or 1 lb cremini mushroom, minced, onion, minced, minced thyme leaves, salt , to taste, ground black pepper , to taste, day-old white bread, crusts removed and pulsed to crumbs in the food processor