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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus

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Ice cream and sorbets

Mandarin and passion fruit trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake covered with fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes jam, custard and whipped cream arranged in layers.

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Desserts

Apple 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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Poultry

Chicken Tikka Masala

Marinated chicken in spices and yogurt and baked.

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Main meals

Mique lotoise

France. Quercy.
A type of bread ball cooked in broth with meat (usually salt pork or ribs and shank, sometimes andouille sausage) and vegetables (carrot, cabbage, turnip, leek, potato).
Served hot or cold.

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Sauces

Brown butter sauce

Brown butter : cooked until a clear brown color and smells nutty poured through a strainer into a cold container to stop the cooking.

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Cheeses

Monterey Jack

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese.

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Sea fish

Gravlax

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

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Game animals

Haunch of venison with sauce poivrade

Haunch : leg.
Pepper sauce: mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, diced bacon, herbs (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or venison stock and black peppercorns.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Whelks

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Main meals

Koftas

Meatballs (half beef, half lamb) mixed with spices and/or onions and fried in oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Salmon lasagne

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