The Cakebread Winery is one of the very few wineries in Napa/Sonoma that offer a cooking class. Cakebread offers 6-8 different hands-on cooking class during the year, classes have no more than 15 students.
The Cassoulet class was our class of choice for this cold and rainy Saturday morning. Many of you may wonder what a Cassoulet is. Cassoulet is a rich, slow-cooked bean stew or casserole originating in the south of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white haricot beans. The dish is named after its traditional cooking vessel, the cassole, a deep, round, earthenware pot with slanting sides.
Cakebread’s Cassoulet deserves high marks; it is made with Liberty Duck’s pecking legs and high quality pork sausages, and beans. The dish was complemented with the winery’s Syrah wine which made this meal outstanding!
