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Sea fish
Sole with mousseline sauce
Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.
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Lobster claws in americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Sauces
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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Pear diplomat pudding
Sponge cake soaked with Grand Marnier (sometimes kirsch) with a pastry cream filled with pear and covered with Chantilly cream topped with a candied cherry.
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Fines de claire oyster
Fines de claire : oysters matured for 4 -8 weeks in oyster ponds.
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Florentins
Very thin, crispy biscuit made with a thin layer of chocolate topped with a mixture of almonds, fresh cream, candied orange peel, and honey.
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Marieke aged Gouda
Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a orange waxed rind.
Matured : 9-12 months.
Others
Chow mein
Chow mein : shrimp, fish, or meats (beef, pork, or chicken) cooked with vegetables (celery, cabbage, mung bean sprouts), all bound in a starch-thickened sauce.Serve with stir-fried noodles (Yakisoba).
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Braised salmon
Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.
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Munster quiche
Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie
Fouace angevine
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Warm round loaf filled with pork rillettes.
Cheeses
Camembert au calvados
Camembert soaked for several hours in Calvados and then covered in breadcrumbs.
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Black Betty
Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with black waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.