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Meal families

Desserts

Apricot blancmange

Blanc-manger : milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Cheeses

Tomme de montagne

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Loire. Puy de Dôme.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White asparagus vinaigrette

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Desserts

Pâté aux prunes

France. Pays de la Loire. Maine-et-Loire.
Pie in short pastry or puff pastry with unpitted plums.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish and Newburg sauce

Newburg sauce : lobster butter with cream and egg yolks seasoned with onions and sherry or Madeira.

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Sauces

Melted butter sauce

Melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.

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Cheeses

Ashy goat cheese log

Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster a la nage in a beurre blanc sauce

Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Cheddar

United Kingdom (Cheddar, Somerset).
Cow's milk cheese with pale yellow colour and strong flavour.
Available in soft, medium, hard and extra hard.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels cassolette with spinach

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Desserts

Strawberry 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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Sauces

Nantua sauce

Fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Sea fish

Coulibiac

Russian speciality.
Puff pastry filled filled with salmon and sea bass mixed with mushroom, hard-boiled egg, onion and dill.

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Pork

Braised pork chop

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Cheeses

Serra da Estrela curado

Portugal. Serra da Estrela.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a rind ocher in color.

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Poultry

Squab with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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Desserts

Eggs in snow with raspberry

Eggs in snow : whipped egg whites accompanied by custard, usually topped with caramel.

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Consommé and Soup

Borscht

Ukraine.
Soup with beetroot, mushrooms, vegetables (carrot, cabbage, cucumber, beans, onion, potato, tomato) and meat (beef, pork or chicken).

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