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Meal families

Cheeses

Quicke’s traditional cheddar

United Kingdom. Devon.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and a natural rind coated with lard and wrapped in muslin cloth.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Sea fish

Marinated anchovies with white wine

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Vegetables quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Freshwater fish

Fish quenelles with lemon sauce

Lemon sauce: butter, olive oil, lemon juice and white wine with parsley.

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Desserts

Red fruit crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Sheep and Goats

Grilled lamb with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Desserts

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

Puff or shortcrust pastry coated with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream puff topped with caramel around. The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or chiboust cream (custard mixed with Italian meringue).

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Sea fish

Turbot fillets in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Patacabra

Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a washed rind from a reddish color to a pale orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 9 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled scallops

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Desserts

Baklava

Speciality of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey…
Dessert made of many layers of filo pastry dough separated with melted butter, or oiled dough layered in which there's a mixture of dried fruit (hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios), sometimes spices (cloves) finely ground and crushed, which is then dipped in a sweet liquid (lemon and sugar water, orange blossom, honey, rose ...).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam gratin

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Salads

Tuna salad

Tuna salad with lettuce, tomato and vinaigrette.

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Sea fish

Roast sea bass in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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