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When Costco Gives You Croissants, Make a Croque Monsieur Casserole
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When Costco Gives You Croissants, Make a Croque Monsieur Casserole

What's a boy to do with a kitchen filled with ginorous packages of croissants, ham, cheese, and mustard? Go all Betty Crocker on their asses.

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THE CROQUE MONSIEUR. My first genuine C.M. (genuine as in eaten in Paris, its birthplace ) was at a little wedge of a bistro in the third arrondissement about 30 years ago. The pulse of new love, years of near-fat-free dieting, and the swirl of Parisian life held hands and duped the neurons in the pleasure center of my brain to deem this humble ham and …

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