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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Brasucade

France. Occitania. Languedoc-Roussillon.
Cooking mussels over a wood fire in a large frying pan before being sprinkled with a marinade.

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Cold starters

Blintz with taramasalata

Greece. Turkey.
Specialty based on salted and cured roe (cod or mullet) added with olive oil and fresh cream and lemon.
In France, generally served with blinis.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Young wild boar pie

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Pork

Pork chop with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cooked meats

Rillons

France. Touraine.
Pork belly browned and confit in fat.

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Sea fish

Monkfish with Romesco sauce

Romesco sauce: catalan specialty. Sauce with a rehash of garlic, almonds, ñoras (dried red pepper), bread, tomatoes, oil, vinegar and spices.

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Cheeses

Chavroux

Industrial soft cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk.

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Sea fish

Brill with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Main meals

Stoemp and sausage

Belgium.
Stoemp : mashed potatoes with some vegetables (broccoli, onion, cabbage, spinach, peas, leek, carrot) and flavoured spices (bay leaf, thyme).

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Cheeses

Calvander

United States. North Carolina.
Hard, cow's milk cheese.

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Cold starters

Meatloaf

Mixture of minced meat (lamb, beef, pork, veal...) with milk, bread crumbs, onion, egg and spices, cooked in the oven or in a pot and generally rectangular in shape.
Served cold, warm or hot.

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Cheeses

Arnéguy

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Sheep's milk cheese.

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Veal

Veal tournedos with forestiere sauce

Tournedos: slice cut from the end portion of tenderloin.
Forestiere sauce : sauce made from butter, mushrooms, crème fraîche and shallots.

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Cheeses

Murol

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Semi-hard, pasteurized cow's milk cheese with deep orange rind and a hole in the middle.

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Poultry

Grilled duck aiguillette

Aiguillette : thin strips of chicken breast.

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Salads

Pasta salad with neapolitan sauce

Neapolitan sauce : tomato sauce with garlic, herbs (basil, oregano, parsley), olive oil, onion, pepper and salt.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared scallops

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Beef

Rib steak with bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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