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Meal families

Cheeses

Appenzeller Classic

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.
Silver label printed in blue and red.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk-fed lamb with savory

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Desserts

Chocolate marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Cold starters

Vegetable 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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Desserts

Strawberry mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Cheeses

Truffe du Périgord

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Dordogne (Périgord).
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with Nantua sauce

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

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Warm starters

Goat cheese raviole

Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with shellfish

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Pork

Pork roast with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Poultry

Duck salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Cooked meats

Smoked ham and potato rösti

Rösti : potato pancake.

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Desserts

Fontainebleau with raspberries

Fontainebleau : dessert made with fresh cow's milk cheese and whipped cream.

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Beef

Lucullus tongue

Mille-feuille of smoked beef tongue slices and duck foie gras.

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Cooked meats

Grilled andouille de Vire

Andouille : pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.

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Game birds

Pheasant salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Freshwater fish

Roasted pike-perch with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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