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Meal families

Sea fish

Gurnard with white wine

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Veal

Veal rump steack with morels and a cream sauce

Cream sauce : Bechamel sauce with cream.

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Beef

Grisons dried beef

Switzerland. Graubünden.
Salted beef with spices and herbs before air-dried.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Desserts

Thin apple tart

Thin tart : on puff pastry.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cockle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Cheeses

Clonmore

Ireland. Cork.
Pasteurized goat's milk hard cheese wrapped in orange wax.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clams mariniere with thyme

Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.

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Pork

Diots with cabbage

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Others

Snail cassolette with cream and morel

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sauces

Tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Cooked meats

Small chitterling sausage with Pont-Neuf potatoes

Sausage cooked with white wine and deglazed with cream.
Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with provencal herbs

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

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Main meals

Mushroom fondue

Gruyère cheese fondue with Vacherin fribourgeois cheese and mushrooms.

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