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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels cassolette with spinach

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplants with goat cheese

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Cheeses

Niolo

France. Corsica. Niolo.
Soft-ripened cheese made from sheep's or goat's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Sauces

Mole

Mexico.
Sauce made from peanuts, cocoa, chili pepper, sesame, tomato, and thickened with corn dough, bread, or fried and crumbled tortilla.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with crayfish

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Sauces

Mole turkey

Mole : sauce made with peanuts, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread, or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Main meals

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fouée with rillauds

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Hot bread roll stuffed with rillauds.

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Desserts

Mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

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Cheeses

Coolea Extra Matured

Ireland. Cork.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a yellow waxed rind.
Ripening : 18 months.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Banana split

Frozen dessert traditionally made of a banana cut lengthwise, surrounding three scoops of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry in France or three scoops of vanilla in Belgium), all topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Endive and scallops tart

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Rabbit

Rabbit cacciatore

Chasseur sauce : brown sauce made from veal (and sometimes beef) stock, white wine, and butter, enhanced with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes, and finely chopped parsley.

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