Desserts
Red fruit 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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Meal families
Shellfish and Seafood
Tellines mariniere with herbs
Tellines: small clams of Camargue with long flat shell.
Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.
Cold starters
Shrimp tomato
Belgium.
Tomato stuffed with brown shrimp mixed with mayonnaise.
Main meals
Chicken gumbo
United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.
Desserts
Kouign amann
France. Brittany. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Eat hot or warm.
Beef
Grilled rib steak with spring vegetables and herb butter
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Herb butter : softened butter mixed with chopped herbs (chives, parsley and tarragon), pepper and salt.
Consommé and Soup
Aigo boulido
France. Provence.
Soup with garlic and boiled sage leaves.
Cheeses
Great hill blue
United States. Massachusetts.
Raw cow's milk rindless blue cheese.
Ripening : 2 months.
Cooked meats
Grilled andouille sausage
Andouille : pork sausage using the large intestine of the pig.
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Red mullet risotto
Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.
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Roasted saddle of lamb with potatoes
Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
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Cofee iced parfait and gingerbread
Parfait : frozen dessert made from fresh cream and eggs with a flavouring (alcohol, crushed fresh or dried fruit, chocolate, vanilla ...).
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Grilled rib steak with spring vegetables
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
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Pavin
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.
Cheeses
Bleu des Causses
France. South of Massif Central. Causses.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 70 days minimum.