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Meal families

Cheeses

Tomme de chèvre

Semi-soft goat's milk cheese.

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Sauces

Colbert sauce

Colbert sauce : maitre d'hotel butter with gravy and tarragon.

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Cheeses

Boursin

France.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese similar to cream cheese with garlic and herbs.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetables à la croque au sel

A la croque au sel : raw vegetables dipped in salt, for example radishes.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cooked sea urchin

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Desserts

Citrus fruit gratin

Gratin of citrus fruits : grapefruit, orange, fresh cream, egg, vanilla.

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Pork

Roast pork with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Gnocchi

Mixture of wheat flour and potato semolina or durum wheat poached in water and often gratin in the oven with cheese.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal roasted shoulder of lamb

Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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Sea fish

Sea Bream carpaccio with citrus fruits

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Sea fish

Grilled herrings with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Main meals

Tuna sushi

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

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Cheeses

Ewephoria

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

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Cheeses

Fat bottom girl

United States. California.
Semi-hard raw sheep's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Sauces

Mushroom sauce

Sauce composed of a white or a brown sauce with mushrooms and other ingredients (butter, condiments, veal or poultry stock, wine, etc.).

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Cold starters

Provencal aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.
Anchovies, olives, peppers with tomato and Provencal herbs in jelly.

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Desserts

Savarin with red fruit

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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