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Meal families

Cooked meats

Hare pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Beef

Hachis parmentier

Mashed potato combined with diced meat. French equivalent of cottage or shepherd's pie.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Cheeses

Bijou

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Cheeses

Patacabra

Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a washed rind from a reddish color to a pale orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

mixed fried horn of plenty

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spring vegetables in 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.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Eggs

Cheese omelette with ham

Omelette with grated cheese and ham.

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Cheeses

Alex

Germany. Allgäu.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind with a blend of hand-picked herbs and elder flower.
Ripening : 7 months.

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Desserts

Floating island

Whipped egg whites on sponge cake with custard and usually caramel sauce.

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Cheeses

Langres

France. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d'Or.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Desserts

Cremets d’Anjou

Egg white beaten with whipped cream and berries.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Eggplant caviar

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch 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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