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Well, okay, in all honesty I wasn't super-super-crazy about this French Fridays with Dorie recipe. Although, I think that has more to do with the fact that I maybe had some less-than-super-flavorful crab meat than anything having to do with the recipe. Oh well, it was still a pretty good & healthy weeknight meal (I …

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Okay, okay, it's Saturday. But I did actually make this last week and then just forgot to post about it Thursday night. Sometimes that happens...to me. Anyway, this week's French Fridays with Dorie was cheese soufflé. Instead of making one big soufflé, I opted to make small, individual soufflés in one cup ramekins. I also …

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This week's French Fridays with Dorie is indeed an onion biscuit. I liked these a lot. I made a half recipe and only seemed to have gotten seven biscuits, but I may have made mine a little big. Another item of note -- I used red onion. I think that's it. Oh, and they had …

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French Fridays with Dorie this week, er, yesterday was for a French Onion type of soup. I have made a variation of this before, but I was very curious as to how it would work with chicken broth (I used beef broth before). And, in fact, this time I used "No-Chicken Broth", so it was …

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This week's French Fridays with Dorie involved mussels, which I am not always a huge fan of (although the mussels at Place Pigalle in Seattle are unbelievably delicious), but generally, aside from those, I can take or leave mussels. That being the case, I used about 1/2 pound mussels and a 1/2 pound shrimp for …

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