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Meal families

Sauces

Mint sauce

Mint sauce : vinegar with sugar and chopped mint leaves.

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Desserts

Black plum pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chicken rice pilaf

Pilaf : wheat, quinoa or rice cooked in a seasoned broth in the oven or casserole.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Endive with ham in papillote

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bitter-sweet shrimp

Sweet and sour sauce : tomato sauce with shallots, olive oil and laurel.

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Cooked meats

Lyon-style andouillette sausage

Small chitterling sausage cooked with onions, meat juices deglazed with vinegar.

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Desserts

Mont-blanc

Meringue cake covered in whipped cream and topped with chestnut cream dusted with icing sugar.

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Cheeses

Abbaye de Belloc

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Semi-hard sheep's whole milk cheese.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Tuna pizza

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustine cassolette with cream sauce

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Tiramisu

Italy. Veneto.
Speciality made of Savoyard biscuits (Savoiardi) or sponge fingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa.
Tiramisu literally means "pull me up" (to the gourmet bliss).

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