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Meal families

Desserts

Cofee and chocolate marquise

Iced chocolate and coffee dessert.

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Beef

Beef tenderloin with red wine emulsion

Red wine emulsion: red wine brought to the boil, flambéed, then reduced with veal stock and crème fraîche before being added to butter and whisked.

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Main meals

Gratin dauphinois

Dish based on scalloped potatoes, garlic and fresh cream.

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Consommé and Soup

Garbure

France. Gascony.
Cabbage Soup with vegetables (beans, potatoes, turnips, large peas, onion, garlic, carrot, turnip …) and piece of confit meat (duck, pork, goose giblets, pork shank, ham, sausage ...).

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Main meals

Flemish waterzooi

Belgium.
Fish or chicken stew with vegetables and herbs whose broth is bound with butter or cream.

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Salads

Salade périgourdine

Mixed salad with croutons, candied or dried gizzards, duck breast, walnuts, lettuce and tomatoes.

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Cooked meats

Brioche with pork rinds

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Savory brioche stuffed with pork scratchings (or duck, goose, chicken).

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Cheeses

Le Gruyère

Switzerland.
Hard unpasteurized cow's whole milk cheese.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Hafod

United Kingdom. Wales.
Hard pasteurized or raw cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and a natural rind.
Ripening : 10 to 18 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Salpicon of lobster

Salpicon : preparation hot or cold of ingredients diced and bound by a cream or sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus risotto

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cooked sea urchin

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Desserts

Chocolate and pear dome cake

Dark chocolate dome filled with chocolate mousse.

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Desserts

Tiramisu

Italy. Veneto.
Speciality made of Savoyard biscuits (Savoiardi) or sponge fingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa.
Tiramisu literally means "pull me up" (to the gourmet bliss).

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Cheeses

Mâconnais

France. Burgundy. Saône-et-Loire. Mâconnais.
Raw unpasteurised goat's milk cheese.

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Desserts

Apple and plum crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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