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Meal families

Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bass fillets with maitre d’hotel butter

Maitre d'hotel butter : softened butter mixed with shallot and parsley.

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Veal

Veal chop milanesa

Milanesa : breadcrumbs with Parmesan cheese

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Sea fish

Salmon coulibiac

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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle risotto

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

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Cheeses

Montasio mezzano

Italy. Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with brushed rind.
Ripening : 5 to 10 months.

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Main meals

Scallop sushi

Sushi : cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients : seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits.

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Consommé and Soup

Aigo boulido

France. Provence.
Soup with garlic and boiled sage leaves.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Squid a la nicoise

Squid cut into thin slices and baked with tomato sauce and herbs.
Served with potatoes or rice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Onion tart

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Pork

Lomo en adobo

Marinated tenderloin of pork with garlic, oregano, paprika and salt.

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Poultry

Stuffed capon

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Others

Lamb and chicken gyros

Gyros: greek sandwich, derived from the döner kebab, with meat, onion, tomato and tzatziki sauce on pita bread.

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Others

Caviar Naccari

Adriatic caviar. (Also available in Spain)

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Cheeses

Ewephoria

Netherlands. Friesland. Semi-soft pasteurized sheep's milk cheese.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Cheeses

Crottin de Chavignol

France. Loire Valley. Chavignol near Sancerre.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Ice cream tutti-frutti bombe

Bombe : spherical or semi-spherical shaped ice.
Vanilla ice cream and strawberry ice cream with candied fruit and strawberries.

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