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Meal families

Desserts

Eton mess

English speciality.
Dessert made with strawberries, pieces of meringue, and cream.

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Poultry

Supreme of fattened chicken with cream

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Porcini risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with juniper berries

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Leek quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Salads

Parisian salade

Salad with lettuce, button mushroom, cheese (generally diced of Comté or Emmental), Jambon de Paris (diced), hard-boiled egg, potato and tomato.
Seasoned with a vinaigrette with parsley and pickles.

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Cheeses

Boulette d’Avesnes

France. Pas-de-Calais. Avesnes.
Cow's milk cheese flavored with parsley, pepper, tarragon, and cloves and later shaped into a cone by hand.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Main meals

Salt pork with lentils

Salt pork : salt-cured pork.

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Cooked meats

Cold cut and salad buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, the guests serve themselves.

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Desserts

Flemish waffles

Waffle stuffed with vergeoise (brown colored sugar), butter and rum, often flavored with vanilla.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Risotto

Reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Cheeses

Glacier blue

United States. Washington.
Blue-veined raw cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 75 days.

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Main meals

Three cheese fondue

Cheese fondue made with Beaufort, Comté and Emmental.

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Appetizers

Gougères with Comté

Gougères stuffed with Comté cheese.

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Beef

Rib steak with chanterelle

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Cheeses

St. Malachi

United States. Pennsylvania.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with smoked bacon

Trout accompanied by smoked bacon and seasoned with persillade.

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Cheeses

Mt Tam

United States. California.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop ceviche

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