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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Dolma

Grape leaves or vegetables (eggplant, cabbage, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, etc) stuffed with spices, onion, rice and sometimes ground meat.

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Desserts

Orange givrée

Orange sorbet served in an orange.

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Cheeses

Le Gruyère bio réserve

Switzerland. Bern. Fribourg. Jura. Neuchâtel. Vaud.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow’s milk with few or no holes and complying with the requirements of the « Bio Suisse » label.
Ripening : 10 months minimum.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Rabbit

Young rabbit fillet with white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Cheeses

Bleu des Causses

France. Occitania. Aveyron, Lot, Lozère.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 70 days minimum.

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Desserts

Pear bavarian creram and apple coulis

Bavarois : chilled molded dessert made with custard or fruit purée, combined with whipped cream and gelatin.

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Desserts

Praline succès cake

Macaron filled with praline cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussel gratin

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Cheeses

Ossau-Iraty

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Béarn. Basque Country.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pizza

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Cooked meats

Poultry liver pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Poultry

Young turkey with Champagne sauce

Champagne sauce : Champagne with thick crème fraîche, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Main meals

Galette with goat cheese

Galette : savory crepe.

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Cheeses

Bleu mont dairy bandaged Cheddar

United States. Wisconsin.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a natural rind and wrapped in cloth.
Ripening : 12 to 24 months.

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Desserts

Lemon and mascarpone macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

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