Cold starters
Egg in aspic
Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.
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Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.
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France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.
Desserts
Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.
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Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.
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Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.
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France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.
Cheeses
France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Meaux. Coulommiers.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Sea fish
Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.
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Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.
> view pairingsSalads
Mesclun : salad with a mixture of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, baby spinach, arugula, escarole, radicchio and aromatic plants.
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