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Meal families

Poultry

Chicken with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Freshwater fish

Gefilte fish

Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.
Stuffed fish (with pike, hake… and served in slices) or large fish balls garnished with a slice of carrot with a horseradish sauce.
Served cold or warm.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed turnip

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster Bellevue

Bellevue : presentation of a shellfish (typically lobster or spiny lobster served in medallions), a whole fish, or a meat (often poultry) cooked whole, served cold and coated with aspic jelly.
Often accompanied by mayonnaise or andalouse sauce (mayonnaise with tomato puree and spices), vegetables, or hard-boiled eggs.

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Cooked meats

Young rabbit paté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Desserts

Pineapple charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Others

Mixed skewers

Skewer with lamb, beef, pepper and kidney.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Seafood pizza

Pizza topped with shrimp, mussels, or squid on a tomato sauce base.

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Cold starters

Pike mousseline with crawfish sauce

Mousseline : light culinary preparation to which whipped cream is added.

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Cooked meats

Jamón ibérico

Dry-cured ham produced from black Iberian pigs (pure breed or crossed with at least 50% black Iberian pig with Duroc pigs).

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Cold starters

Fish aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bouzigues oysters

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cheeses

Provolone piccante

Italy. Lombardy.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk made with kid rennet.
Ripening : 16 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Remoudou

Belgium. Limburger.
Pasteurized Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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