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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach and ricotta cannelloni

Ricotta: Italian or Maltese cheese made from the whey of other cheeses, sheep or cow.

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Warm starters

Lobster raviole

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with thyme juice

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

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Desserts

Oeufs au lait and strawberry

Boiled milk poured over eggs beaten in omelette and baked.

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Poultry

Roasted capon with forestiere sauce

Forestiere sauce : sauce made from butter, mushrooms, crème fraîche and shallots.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin with mushrooms

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Desserts

Bayadere of red fruits and mascarpone mousse

Bayadère: alternating stripes of different colours.

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Cheeses

Vacherin d’Abondance

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese wrapped in a strip of spruce bark.

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Desserts

Christmas pudding

United Kingdom.
Dark-coloured Christmas cake, steamed for a long time with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses and often beef kidney fat and flavoured with beer (Porter, Stout), alcohol (Cognac) or citrus juice. Before being served with cognac or flambéed rum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Eggplant tian

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Poultry

Bordeaux style duck confit

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Cold starters

Botargo

Botargo : salted and dried mullet eggs.

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Desserts

Cofee merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Cooked meats

Rillauds

Anjou speciality.
Pork belly with the rind browned and confit in fat.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Peas

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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