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Meal families

Cheeses

Smoked Gouda

Netherlands.
Smoked, pressed and uncooked cheese made from whole cow's milk.

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Salads

Frisée salad with lardons and poached eggs

Frisée salad with bacon, a poached egg, and vinaigrette.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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Cheeses

Délice de Bourgogne

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Yonne.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Salads

Apple and walnut salad

Salad of julienned apples and celery, served with walnuts and a mayonnaise dressing.

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Poultry

Bresse chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Custard tart

Shortcrust pastry filled with egg custard, baked in the oven.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops with citrus fruits

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Veal

Veal tournedos with forestière sauce

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).
Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Sea fish

Monkfish stew with red butter sauce

Red butter sauce : shallots and red wine with butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel risotto

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

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Pork

Diots with crozets

Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.
Crozets : pasta made with buckwheat flour and accompanied with Beaufort cheese strips.

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Cold starters

Ham aspic

Slice of ham around an egg in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Game birds

Roasted pheasant with Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : reduction of white wine or Madeira with a blonde roux to which diced black truffles are added.

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