Recipe - Bos Cowboy Cassoulet*

5 pound Trimmed beef stew meat
Salt
Pepper
2 Cinnamon sticks
Garlic cloves
2 Ancho chilies
Soaking water
2 pound Dried northern beans; cooked
Salt
3 pound Italian sausage; hot/mild
2 Onions
Or 3 onions; finely minced
4 Peeled carrots
6 Celery stalks
1 lg Can tomatoes
2 Ancho chilies; additional
Soaking water
Chicken stock

Recipe By : Lou Jane Temple

1. Oven roast 5 lbs. of trimmed beef stew meat. Season with salt and
pepper, 2 cinnamon sticks, a handful of garlic cloves and 2 ancho chilies
soaked in warm water (use the water too). Roast at 375F degrees, 23 hours,
until the meat is tender. Cool and refrigerate; then remove the fat that
has congealed on the top.

2. Soak and cook 2 lbs. dried northern beans, adding salt after the beans
are tender. Cool the beans by surrounding the pot with an icewater bath in
the sink or transferring the hot beans into shallow plastic containers.
Beans are easily soured, so it is important to not put them in the
refrigerator hot. It will take too long for the middle of the pot to cool.

3. Sausage: 3 lbs. hot or mild Italian sausage or a combination of the two.
Prick the sausage with a fork on both sides. Roast 25 minutes at 375
degrees. Cool the sausage and cut into threeinch chunks.

4. Finely dice 23 onions, 4 peeled carrots, and 6 celery stalks. Saute
until onions are clear. In a large ovenproof roasting pan, combine the
defatted beef, the beans, sausage and the vegetables. Add 1 large can of
tomatoes, 2 more ancho chilies that have been soaked in warm water, and
enough chicken stock to make the whole mixture very wet.

Do not combine until right before you bake or the beans will absorb the
moisture and the dish will be dry. Top the mixture with toasted bread
crumbs and bake at 350 degrees until the sides are bubbling, the crumbs
have browned and formed a crust, and the middle of the casserole is hot.
Notes: "...cowboy stew... It was kind of an American version of cassoulet,
with White beans sausage and beef and a complex heat Heaven guessed came
from dried chilis. "*Recipe from REVENGE OF THE BARBEQUE QUEENS, a culinary
mystery by Lou Jane Temple, with Heaven Lee, chef, Heaven Cafe. Pat
Hanneman (ed) 9/98 MasterCook

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