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Meal families

Sea fish

Salmon and tuna ceviche

Ceviche : cold dish made with shellfish or fish marinated in citrus juice (usually lime) with seasonings (garlic, cilantro, cumin, white onion, chili pepper, pepper, salt, etc).

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Freshwater fish

Trout with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with seafood

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Cheeses

Tasty Lancashire

United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 24 months.

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Appetizers

Poached eggs tart and Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with linden butter

Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.

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Main meals

Matelote with riesling

Matelote : white wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Cheeses

Ashbrook

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Cheeses

Wabash Cannonball

United States. Indiana.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind rind coated in ash.
Ripening : 7 to 10 days.

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Cheeses

Gaperon

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Allier.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind flavored with pepper and garlic.
Ancestor of Boursin cheese.

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Cheeses

Crü di capra

Italy. Lombardy.
Pressed, uncooked pasteurized goat's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with orange sauce

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine or a reduced veal or poultry stock.

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Cheeses

Red hawk

United States. California.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a yellow to reddish-orange washed rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Poultry

Tandoori chicken

Tandoori : meat or fish marinated and coated in yogurt mixed with spices (garam masala, ginger, garlic, cumin, cayenne pepper).

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