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Meal families

Desserts

Red fruit cookie tulip

Cookie tulip : container for dessert (baked dough made with butter, egg white, flour and icing sugar).

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Young wild boar pie

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Cheeses

Persillé de Tignes

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Tarentaise. Tignes.
Blue raw cow and goat's milk semi-soft cheese with a natural rind.

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Beef

Grilled beef with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Cheeses

Aged brick

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 7 months.

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Others

Snail cassolette with chanterelle

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Main meals

Spicy fondue

Gruyère cheese fondue with red and green peppers with chili pepper.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven hour leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Seven hour : Slow-cooking leg of lamb in wine with garlic and herbs until it is fall-off-the-bone tender and luscious

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Cheeses

Tarentaise reserve cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.
Served cold.

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Desserts

Blancmange

Milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Provencal eggplant

Eggplant with garlic, onion, parsley, tomato…

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Cheeses

Little boy blue cheese

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Poultry

Poached Bresse fattened chicken with supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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Sea fish

Grilled sole with melted butter

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

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Offal and tripe

Lyon-style gras-double

Gras-double : tripe cooked with onions.

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Sheep and Goats

Beef irish stew

Ireland.
Beef stew with carrots, onions and potatoes.
Traditional dish.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Brussels sprouts gratin

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