Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Where therapy and mental health are trending, food and cooking has always been an escape for me. Today we get to take things slower making and easy appetizer. We're making for the first time, Moules Normand and scratch made bread from Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.

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🥖 The 5 Minute Baguette: youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z-husjZkxHw
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📚 Chapters
00:00 - A Bit Of Therapy
00:57 - 5 Minute Baguette
03:23 - Prepping And Talking Life
05:40 - Comment Of The Week!

🍎 Ingredients
• ¼ lb. / 112 g. slab bacon, cut into lardon
• 4 Tbsp. / 56 g. unsalted butter
• 1 shallot, thinly sliced
• 6 small white mushrooms, thinly sliced
• ½ apple, cored, peeled, cut into small dice or chunks
• 3 oz. / 75 ml. Calvados
• 1 cup / 225 ml. heavy cream
• salt and pepper
• 6 lb. / 2.7 kg. mussels, debearded and rinsed

🫕 Equipment
• large pot with lid
• wooden spoon

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