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Meal families

Sea fish

Halibut fillets with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Desserts

Petit four glacé

Glacé : topped with fondant.

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Sea fish

Salmon soufflé

Served hot.

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Cooked meats

Grilled andouille sausage

Andouille : pork sausage using the large intestine of the pig.

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Cheeses

Chaumes

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Commercial soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with a washed orange rind.

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Main meals

Jambalaya

United States. Louisiana. New Orleans.
A type of paella with seafood, fish or meat, made from rice and very spicy.

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Cheeses

Maasdam

Netherlands.
Semi-hard cow's pasteurized milk cheese wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 1 to 3 months.

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Main meals

Spicy 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.

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Veal

Veal Marengo

Marengo : cooked in a casserole dish with mushrooms, onion, tomato with white wine.

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Sea fish

Stuffed salmon with vegetables

Stuffing with vegetables and shellfish.
Served cold.

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Sauces

Hollandaise sauce

Vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 9 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Ashy goat cheese log

Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Cheeses

Dirt lover

United States. Missouri.
Soft-ripened pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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