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Meal families

Cheeses

Holey cow

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized raw cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

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Cheeses

Parmigiano Reggiano vecchio

Italy. Emilia Romagna and Lombardy south.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 18 to 24 months.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Sea fish

Bilbao eels

Basque Country.
Dish with elver eels, garlic, olive oil and chili pepper.

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Main meals

Stoemp and sausage

Belgium.
Stoemp : mashed potatoes with some vegetables (broccoli, onion, cabbage, spinach, peas, leek, carrot) and flavoured spices (bay leaf, thyme).

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Consommé and Soup

Pork goulash

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Cheeses

Quicke’s Extra Mature

United Kingdom. Devon.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and a natural rind wrapped in muslin cloth.
Ripening : 18 months.

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Poultry

Ostrich tournedos with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Cheeses

Castelmagno

Italy. Cuneo. Castelmagno, Pradleves and Monterosso Grana.
Semi-hard raw whole cow's milk cheese with a washed rind, sometimes some milk from ewe or goat may be added to the cow's milk.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.

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Desserts

Apricot bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Beef

Rib steak with bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Cold starters

Scallop sashimi

Sashimi : thin slices of raw fish or shellfish.

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Beef

Pastrami

Beef salted, smoked and cut in thin slices.

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Cheeses

Vacherin fribourgeois Classic

Switzerland. Fribourg.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 9 to 12 weeks.

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Veal

Veal escalope with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Freshwater fish

Trout au bleu with hollandaise sauce

Blue: cooked in court-bouillon and vinegar.
Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Langoustine with white asparagus

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