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Meal families

Cheeses

Chevrotin des Bauges

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Soft goat's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Champagne sauce

Champagne sauce : Champagne with fresh cream, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Desserts

Nun’s puffs

Small choux pastry soufflé fritter with sugar.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Mediterranean pizza

Pizza made with eggplant, zucchini, rocket salad, tomato and mozzarella.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clams with mariniere sauce

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

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Cheeses

Délice de Bourgogne

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Brasucade

France. Occitania. Languedoc-Roussillon.
Cooking mussels over a wood fire in a large frying pan before being sprinkled with a marinade.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Red mullet risotto

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

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Sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

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

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Desserts

Chocolate marquise

Iced chocolate dessert.

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Cheeses

Bijou

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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