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October 17th, 2022

Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >


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The Way to Cook

By Julia Child
Knopf - 1993

23rd November 2017

Mushroom Duxelles : page 314

I made a halfish recipe of this to make Wild rice Braised with Mushroom Duxelles. Easy and good. I have frozen the extra as she suggested.

Small confusion. This recipe says the mushrooms should be diced. A recipe using the duxelles says they are finely diced. There is a difference. I diced, and though they were find.

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23rd November 2017

Wild Rice Braised with Mushroom Duxelles : page 331

A pretty good way to do wild rice. I liked it a lot, my husband not, and we haven't figured out the difference.

This variation says the duxelles are "finely diced sautéed mushrooms" but in the recipe for Mushroom Duxelles it says they should only be diced. (Diced was fine.)

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