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Meal families

Cold starters

Crab aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Salads

Langoustines salad in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Main meals

Lobster raviole with Newburg sauce

Newburg sauce : lobster butter with cream and egg yolks seasoned with onions and sherry or Madeira.

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Cheeses

Dorset

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.

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Cheeses

Saint-Jorge 6 meses

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 6 months.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini with porcini

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Main meals

Burgundy style potée

Mixture of salted meat or pork sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

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Cheeses

Paški sir

Croatia. Pag.
Hard pasteurized sheep's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with wild mushrooms

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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Sea fish

Cod with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cheeses

Fresh Écume De Wimereux

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw double cream cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Cooked meats

Rillons

France. Touraine.
Pork belly browned and confit in fat.

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Cheeses

Sawtooth

United States. Washington.
Semi-soft raw cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 60 to 75 days.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Boiled shrimp

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Cheeses

Nicasio square

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.

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