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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with black truffle oil

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Appetizers

Gougères with Maroilles

Gougères stuffed with Maroilles cheese.

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Poultry

Salmi of squab

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Zucchini tian

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Cooked meats

Caillette

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche.
Typical pâté made with pork meat, Swiss chard, spinach or salad, chopped herbs and wrapped in pig's caul fat. There may also be garlic, alcohol, spices, egg, chestnuts, walnuts…
Served cold or hot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Cheeses

Creamy Lancashire

United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a pale yellow natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 4 weeks.

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Sheep and Goats

Stew of lamb

Navarin : stew.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with boulangere potatoes

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Boulangere potatoes : baked potatoes with onions in broth.

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Cheeses

Bent River

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 5 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato croquettes with duck confit

Croquette with chopped duck confit and mashed potatoes or white sauce.

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Sea fish

Pickled herring

Herring marinated in vinegar with carrot, lemon, bay leaf, onion, mustard and sometimes served with fresh cream.

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Cheeses

Saint-Marcellin

France. Dauphiné.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Poultry

Duck with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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