Poultry
Chicken with mushrooms and cream sauce
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.
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Desserts
Whippet cookie
Biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and then coated in a hard shell of pure chocolate.
Sometimes there's a fruit jelly between the marshmallow and the biscuit.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie
Flammekueche
France. Alsace.
Thin layer of dough covered with cream or cheese and bacon and onions.
Appetizers
Poached eggs tart and Aurora sauce
Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.
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Bleu de Gex
France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Haut-Jura.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Shellfish and Seafood
Marinated scallops in lemon
Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.
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Bacon quiche
Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Shakshouka
Shakshouka : poached eggs in a sauce with onions, peppers and tomatoes, usually seasoned with cumin, paprika and harissa.
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Montpellier butter
Butter mixed with garlic, capers, herbs (chervil, watercress, spinach, tarragon, parsley), gherkin, shallot, anchovy fillet and hard-boiled egg.
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Roasted leg of lamb with porcini
Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Cold starters
Tzatziki
Greece. Turkey.
Mezzé made from yogurt (sheep's or goat's yogurt) mixed with cucumber, garlic, salt, olive oil, sometimes lemon juice and dill, fennel, mint and parsley.
Often served with pita bread and olives.
Always served cold.
Sea fish
Sea bass with orange sauce
Spain. Valencia. Valencia.
Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.
Shellfish and Seafood
Scallop carpaccio
Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.
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Axoa
Basque Country.
Stew with shredded beef, onions, tomatoes sauté and flavoured with red Espelette pepper.