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Meal families

Appetizers

American-style pigs in a blanket

Sausage wrapped in puff pastry.

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Cheeses

Selles-sur-Cher

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Sologne. Cher, Indre, Loir-et-Cher.
Soft-ripened unpasteurised goat milk cheese with a natural rind coated in vegetable ash.
Ripening : 10 to 30 days.

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Pork

Pork crépinettes with apple

Crépinettes : ground pork in small flat sausage.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sauteed green asparagus with olive oil

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Cheeses

Saint-André

France. Normandy. Orne.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft with white mould rind.

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Eggs

Oeufs en meurette

Poached eggs with red wine sauce, bacon and onion compote.

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Main meals

Fondue savoyarde

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Traditional Savoie cheese fondue (Beaufort, Comté, Emmenthal, Gruyère, Tomme de Savoie) where small cubes of bread are dipped.

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Desserts

Whippet cookie

Biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and then coated in a hard shell of pure chocolate.
Sometimes there's a fruit jelly between the marshmallow and the biscuit.

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Pork

Diots with crozets

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.
Crozets : pasta made with buckwheat flour and accompanied with Beaufort cheese strips.

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Desserts

Raspberry charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Warm starters

Soufflé

Served hot.

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Poultry

Chicken in cream sauce and button mushroom

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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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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Salads

Vegetable salad with toro and anchovies

Toro : tuna taken from the belly.

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