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Meal families

Cheeses

Abbaye de Belloc

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 6 months.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with black truffle mashed potatoes

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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Cheeses

Rocamadour

France. Occitania. Lot. Tarn-et-Garonne. (Quercy).
Soft-ripened goat cheese made from whole raw milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 days minimum.

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Desserts

Chocolate and Griottines twelfth night cake

Griottines : cherries macerated in a kirsch liqueur.

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Cooked meats

Pâté en croûte

Terrine of assorted meats, oven-baked in a pastry crust and set in natural gelatin.
Served cold.

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Desserts

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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Desserts

Walnut mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops skewers

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Cheeses

Smoked Gouda

Netherlands.
Smoked, pressed and uncooked cheese made from whole cow's milk.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Polenta

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Sea fish

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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Poultry

Fattened chicken with morel sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb irish stew

Ireland.
Mutton stew with carrots, onions, and potatoes.
Traditional dish.

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