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Meal families

Desserts

Chocolate praline dome cake

Milk chocolate dome filled with praline mousse.

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Sea fish

Turbot with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce with whipped cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb and spring garnish

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Main meals

Mique lotoise

France. Quercy.
A type of bread ball cooked in broth with meat (usually salt pork or ribs and shank, sometimes andouille sausage) and vegetables (carrot, cabbage, turnip, leek, potato).
Served hot or cold.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Desserts

Paris-Brest

Ring-shaped pastry made of choux pastry and a praline flavoured cream with sliced almonds.

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Cheeses

Green Dirt Farm’s Ruby

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cheese made from a blend of pasteurized cow’s and sheep's milk with a washed rind.

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Desserts

Pink Charlotte with red fruit

Charlotte made with pink Reims biscuits dipped in champagne, milk or ratafia with red fruits (strawberry, raspberry, currant).

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Consommé and Soup

Fish soup

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with thyme

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cheeses

Quart

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord. Avesnois.
Maroilles form.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks minimum.

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