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Meal families

Cheeses

Montgomery’s Cheddar

United Kingdom. Somerset.
Semi-hard cheese from raw cow's milk with hard pressed paste and a natural rind wrapped in a cloth.
Ripening : 9 months minimum.

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Beef

Bordeaux style pan seared rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Main meals

Inarizushi

Fried tofu stuffed with rice, sweetened and vinegared.

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Sauces

Ravigote sauce

Ravigote sauce : lightly acidic hot or cold sauce with velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Rabbit

Roast rabbit with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Main meals

Seafood gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Asparagus tart

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with spring vegetables

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Desserts

Chocolate and pear dome cake

Dark chocolate dome filled with chocolate mousse.

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Cold starters

Fish bread with green sauce

Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with mashed chervil, cress, spinach and parsley.

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Desserts

Frangipane tart

Frangipane: almond based cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum mixed with pastry cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Boiled shrimp

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