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Desserts and Sweet Courses
Rhubarb sablé
Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).
Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Tomato bruschetta
Grilled bread rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil and salt, served with tomato and basil.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Braised endives
Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.
Hot Starters
Quenelles
Plain quenelle : durum wheat semolina or flour with butter, eggs, milk and/or water, and seasoning.
Cheeses
Trappe de Bricquebec
France. Normandy.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Cheeses
Hafod
United Kingdom. Wales.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind ripened in an additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 10 to 18 months.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Maltese strawberries
Strawberries served with orange juice and Cointreau.
Shellfish and Seafood
Marinated scallops in lemon
Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Praline macarons
Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.
Freshwater fish
Trout with white wine sauce
White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.
Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops with lemon butter sauce
Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.
Seafish
Steamed sea bass with black truffle
Steam or stew : Steaming in a container closed by a lid.
Cheeses
Gabietou
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Béarn.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw sheep's and cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 4 months.
Seafish
Skate with black butter sauce
Beurre noir (black butter sauce) : butter cooked until it takes on a dark color, in reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine, vinegar).
Miscellaneous
Red curry
Thailand.
Complex combination of spices or aromatic herbs (garlic, shallot, red chili, galangal, shrimp paste, salt, kaffir lime, coriander root, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, pepper and lemongrass) with coconut milk and fish sauce.