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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cockle risotto

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

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Sea fish

Trout fillets Gravlax

Gravlax: fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices and herbs, salt, sugar with a mustard sauce.

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Cheeses

Vacherin des Bauges

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance. Bauges Mountains.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Sheep and Goats

Spit-roasted knuckle of lamb

Knuckle of lamb : meat joint from below the knee.

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Cheeses

Venus

United States. Washington.
Semi-hard cheese from raw goat's and cow’s milk with a yellowish-golden rind washed with cider.
Ripening : 10 to 12 months.

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Desserts

Chocolate and cofee charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam fricassee

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

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Desserts

Lemon soufflé

Served hot.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Mandarin sorbet

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes with melted butter

Melted butter : melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.

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Cooked meats

Lomo embuchado

Spain.
Lomo : sausage of pork loin marinated and refined several months.
Eaten raw and cut into very thin slices.

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Pork

Diots with cabbage

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam chowder

Clam soup with potatoes and onions in broth.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and bay scallop cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Zucchini provencal

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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