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Meal families

Cheeses

Beenleigh Blue

United Kingdom. Devon.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.

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Rabbit

Rabbit in mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels cassolette with spinach

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop skewers with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.

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Cured Meats

Roasted andouille de Guéméné with apple compote and white wine sauce

Andouille : pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.
Served hot.

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Seafish

Sea bass Nice style

Nice-style : fish cooked with garlic, anchovies, capers, onion, olives, tomato sauce, and a herb bouquet.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Apple bonne femme

Baked apples on slices of bread with caramel.

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Miscellaneous

Snails in the Burgundy style

Snails with parsley butter (butter, garlic, and parsley mixed).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Red berry mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Cheeses

Torta del Casar

Spain. Extremadura.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a medium to very creamy texture and a semi-hard rind between yellow and ocher in color.

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Sauces

Mushroom sauce

Mushroom sauce : sauce made from a white or brown base, with mushrooms and other ingredients such as butter, seasonings, stock (veal or poultry), and wine.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Whippet cookie

Dry biscuit topped with dome-shaped marshmallow, all coated in chocolate.
Sometimes, you find a fruit jelly between the marshmallow and the biscuit.

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Miscellaneous

Beef pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with minced meat, hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Mango miror glaze cake

Miror glaze cake : cold dessert made of mousse on a sponge cake, topped with a glaze.

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Seafish

Halibut fillets with meunière sauce

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

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Cheeses

Malakoff

France. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Pays de Bray. Gournay-en-Bray.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.
Less aged than Gournay.

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