All dishes:
Meal families
Beef
Tournedos Rossini
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.
Main meals
Fish waterzooi
Belgium.
Fish or chicken stew with vegetables and herbs whose broth is bound with butter or cream.
Cheeses
Vermont Herdsman
United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard cheese from cow's raw whole milk cheese with a washed straw rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.
Veal
Veal chop with morels and vin jaune sauce
Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.
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Crayfish a la nage in a beurre blanc sauce
Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.
Desserts
Baklava
Speciality of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey…
Dessert made of many layers of filo pastry dough separated with melted butter, or oiled dough layered in which there's a mixture of dried fruit (hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios), sometimes spices (cloves) finely ground and crushed, which is then dipped in a sweet liquid (lemon and sugar water, orange blossom, honey, rose ...).
Main meals
Seafood gumbo
United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.
Sea fish
Baked sea bream with Bercy sauce
Bercy sauce : Reduction of chopped shallots with peppercorns mixed with white wine with meat glaze and whipped with butter.
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Montasio
Italy. Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with brushed rind (Fresco: matured up to 2 months; Mezzano from 5-10 months; Stagionata more than 10 months).
Cheeses
Le Gruyère
Switzerland.
Hard unpasteurized cow's whole milk cheese.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.
Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster fricassee
Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.
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Roncal
Spain. Navarre.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed with a colour ivory white or pale yellow and a blue-grey natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.
Cooked meats
Andouillette sausage
Pork sausage using the small intestine of the pig.
Served hot.