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This is a French Fridays on a Saturday -- mainly because I didn't even manage to make this until Friday night for dinner. This is probably one of the simplest recipes so far for FFwD. Basically, you slice an avocado in half, peel and remove the pit, drizzle with some lemon juice and salt, then …

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The trickiest part of this recipe is probably locating the halloumi cheese. I used Mt. Vikos brand, which I've found easily before at both New Seasons and Zupans. I'm sure places like Whole Foods have it as well (and also Barbur World Foods, no doubt). This cheese browns and crisps up nicely instead of just …

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Hey! I finally got it together to get my French Fridays with Dorie post up on time! This week it was a fairly simple and straightforward Asparagus Soup. I added a little dried dill to mine and also some extra garlic. Not much to say about this, it was pretty tasty. And, in usual soup …

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These are oddly delicious little scones that are great as a quick breakfast or afternoon snack. Odd mainly because the dough is very wet and sticky so that you can't really pat it down and either cut the scones into wedges or circles like normal. You sort of have to scoop the dough out like …

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This was a recent meal at our house and even though I accidentally made two "errors" with it, the meal was still delicious. So, I think we'll call this one both forgiving and versatile. Error number one was not realizing this recipe made two cake pans worth of polenta (not a big deal as the …

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