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Meal families

Sea fish

Sole with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Veal

Blanquette de veau

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted spiny lobster with sweet spicy butter

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Cheeses

Rembrandt extra aged Gouda

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a orange waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Cheeses

Crater Lake Blue

United States. Oregon.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 90 days.

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Desserts

Praline succès cake

Macaron filled with praline cream.

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Rabbit

Roast rabbit with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cheeses

Harbison

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind encircled with a strip of spruce bark.

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Cheeses

Wrangeback

Sweden.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 10 to 15 months.

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Cheeses

Buttermilk blue

United States. Wisconsin.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Desserts

Damson pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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