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Meal families

Desserts

Cherry merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Appetizers

Roquefortins

Toast with Roquefort cheese mixed with walnuts and raisins.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tomato

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Rabbit pie

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Cheeses

Tilsiter Switzerland

Switzerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.
Red label.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Desserts

Angel’s food cake

A type of vanilla sponge cake often served covered with red berry coulis and strawberries.

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Cheeses

Crumbly Lancashire

United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Lobster risotto with saffron

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Provençal eggplants

Eggplant with garlic, onion, parsley, tomato…

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Cheeses

Mâconnais

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Saône-et-Loire. Mâconnais.
Soft-ripened goat cheese made from whole raw milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 10 days minimum.

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Desserts

Strawberry miror glaze cake

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

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with goat cheese

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

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Cheeses

Cheshire

United Kingdom.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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