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Meal families

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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus with coriander

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Pork

Porchetta

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Italia.
Boneless suckling pig, stuffed with its flesh and offal with herbs (garlic, bay leaf) roasted over a wood fire.
Eat cold, sliced ​​or fried with oil and tomato.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

Pasta cooked with tomato, salted anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and peppers.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop ceviche

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Freshwater fish

Artic char with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Patatas bravas

Spain.
Potato speciality cut into in dice of about 2 centimeters, then fried in oil with garlic and served warm with an aioli (Catalonia) or a spicy tomato sauce.

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Main meals

Tajine

Stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Others

Croque-monsieur

Grilled ham and cheese sandwich.

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Appetizers

Roquefortins

Toast with Roquefort mixed with walnuts and raisins.

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Pork

Pork crépinettes

Ground pork in small flat sausage.

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Desserts

Blueberry 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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Cold starters

Chicken meatloaf stuffed with crayfish

Meatloaf : piece of meat, game, fish, poultry, boned, stuffed and rolled, cooked and tied up with string, cooked in casseroles or prepared in jelly.

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Sheep and Goats

Herb roasted leg of lamb

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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