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Shrimp rolls

Canada. Quebec.
Hot dog-style bun filled with salad and mayonnaise sauce.

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Desserts

Banana soufflé

Served hot.

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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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Main meals

Ratatouille

Vegetable stew (eggplant, zucchini, onion, pepper, tomato) cooked with olive oil and garlic.
Served hot or cold.

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Cold starters

Prawn cocktail

Shrimp salad with egg and cocktail sauce (Cognac, ketchup, mayonnaise, Tabasco).

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Sheep and Goats

Marinated leg of lamb with red wine

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cheeses

Garrotxa

Spain. Catalonia. Tarragona.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a with a mouldy rind of gray or bluish-grey colour.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.

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Others

Red curry

Thai speciality.
Complex combinations of spices or herbs (garlic, shallots, red chili peppers, galangal, shrimp paste, salt, kaffir lime peel, coriander root, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, peppercorns and lemongrass) with coconut milk and fish sauce.

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Main meals

Aligot

Aligot : mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream, crushed garlic, and melted cheese (Tome fraîche de l’Aubrac).

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Pork

Pork shoulder with diable sauce

France. Alsace.
Pork shoulder coated in a mustard sauce with garlic, shallot and parsley, wrapped in pig's caul fat.

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Poultry

Lemon chicken

Piece of chicken marinated in lemon before cooking.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle with rice

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Desserts

Strawberry shortcake

United Kingdom.
Shortcake : sweet cake covered with a layer of fruit, juice and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Murol

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Semi-hard, pasteurized cow's milk cheese with deep orange rind and a hole in the middle.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with clams and toasted bread

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