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Meal families

Cheeses

Vieux Lille

France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Soft, cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 5 to 6 months.

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Sauces

Crayfish butter

Butter with crayfish.

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Game birds

Roasted pheasant with Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : white wine or Madeira reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles.

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Pork

Boudin blanc

Boudin blanc : white sausage made of white meat with milk instead of blood.

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Cheeses

Vacherin fribourgeois Classic

Switzerland. Fribourg.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 9 to 12 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fettucine Alfredo

Italy. United States.
Pasta dish consisting of long pasta mixed with butter and parmesan cheese.

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Desserts

Peach zabaione

Zabaione: egg yolk beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or not, to get a froth hot or warm and fragrant.

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Cheeses

Bay blue

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk blue cheese.
Ripening : 3 months.

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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.

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Desserts

Oeufs au lait and strawberry

Boiled milk poured over eggs beaten in omelette and baked.

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Cold starters

Chicken 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.

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