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Meal families

Appetizers

Tomato bruschetta

Toast rubbed with garlic, topped with olive oil, salt, tomato and basil.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Asparagus flan

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Desserts

Raspberry macaron

Macaron : cupcake made with two meringue cookies and a cream or ganache between them.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with porcini

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Desserts

Raspberry bavarois

Bavarois : cold moulded dessert made ​​with custard or fruit puree, mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine.

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Sea fish

Monkfish blanquette

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Appetizers

Roquefortins

Toast with Roquefort mixed with walnuts and raisins.

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Desserts

Almond miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Main meals

Pike-perch matelote

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Cheeses

Montboissié du Haut Livradois

France. Auvergne.
Semi-soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a striking vein of ash through the middle and a washed rind.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.

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Sea fish

Grilled salmon a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Main meals

Moitie-Moitie fondue

Mont d'or cheese fondue with gruyère.

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Beef

Beef tongue with Madeira sauce

Madeira sauce : Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.

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Cheeses

Imokilly Regato

Ireland. Cork.
Pasteurized cow’s milk hard cheese with a natural rind.
Matured : 9-12 months.

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Desserts

Strawberry 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

Petit four glacé

Glacé : topped with fondant.

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Cheeses

Gubbeen smoked cheese

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind covered in black wax.

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