Easy French Style Cassoulet - Lavender and Lovage

Ingredients

• 50g smoked lardons or streaky bacon, chopped into small dice
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 450g meaty sausages, preferably pork
• 4 lean pork chops, cut into large pieces
• 400g tinned beans, such as cannellini beans, navy beans, mixed beans, white haricot beans or butter beans (drained)
• 2 onions, peeled & diced
• 2 carrots, peeled & cut into biggish chunks
• 400g chopped tomatoes
• 400ml chicken stock
• 200ml red wine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 to 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely diced
• 50g breadcrumbs (fresh are best)
• 1 bouquet garni