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Meal families

Sea fish

Hake with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Main meals

Fish and chips

Battered fish and deep-fried chips.

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Desserts

Opera

Pastry with Joconde cake, coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache.

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Pork

Currywurst

Germany. Berlin.
Pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry ketchup.
Served with bread rolls (Brötchen) or with french fries.

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Sheep and Goats

Braised saddle of lamb

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Sea fish

Goujonnettes of sole with lemon

Goujonnette : small fish fillet cut on the bias.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fettucine al ragù

Italy.
Pasta with bolognese sauce.

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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.

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Desserts

Apricot 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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Cheeses

Edam demi-étuvé

Netherlands. Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Cheeses

Brie de Meaux

France. Brie. Meaux.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Green asparagus quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Cheeses

Medium-old Mimolette

France. Nord Pas de Calais. Semi-hard cow's milk cheese annatto colored.
Ripening : 6 to 12 months.

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Game animals

Haunch of venison with huntsman sauce

Haunch : leg.
Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.

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