Desserts
Puits d’amour
Hollowed round cake in puff pastry or choux pastry stuffed with jam (apricot, raspberry or redcurrant jelly) or custard and topped with caramel or icing sugar.
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Meal families
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Ajapsandali
Georgia.
Dish made with garlic, eggplant, pepper, tomato and coriander.
Sheep and Goats
Pistache Saint-Gaudinoise
France. Midi-Pyrénées. Haute Garonne.
Mutton stew with white bean, pork, lard and garlic.
Sea fish
Roasted salmon with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.
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Braised veal sweetbreads with endive fondue
Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..
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Shellfish raviole
Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.
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Salmi of quails
Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.
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Stuffed mushrooms with taramasalata
Taramasalata : specialty based on salted and cured roe (cod or mullet) added with olive oil and fresh cream and lemon.
In France, generally served with blinis.
Cheeses
Quicke’s Extra Mature
United Kingdom. Devon.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and a natural rind wrapped in muslin cloth.
Ripening : 18 months.