Cold starters
Meze
Eastern Mediterranean.
Small dishes (ten to a hundred, with eggplant caviar, dolmas, vegetable salads, tabbouleh, etc.) served on small plates (like antipasti) for a party or a family meal to accompany alcoholic beverages.
Search a meal
All dishes:
Meal families
Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops skewers with béarnaise sauce
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.
> view pairingsCooked meats
Prosciutto di Parma
Italy. Parma.
Ham from the pork breeds : Duroc or Large White and slaughtered at the age of 9 months and hung for at least 12 months.
Cheeses
Chaumes
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Commercial soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Beef
Grilled beef with pommes paillasson and peppercorn sauce
Pomme paillasson : pancake of grated and fried potatoes.
Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.
Cheeses
Maroilles
France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord. Avesnois.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Sheep and Goats
Roasted Pauillac lamb
Lamb under 11 weeks and between 11 and 15 kilos.
> view pairingsMain meals
Tartiflette with Mont d’or
Tartiflette : dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese and bacon.
> view pairingsCheeses
Bijou
United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.
Desserts
Streusel cake
Streusel: Alsatian brioche on which there's a kind of crumble made from butter, cinnamon, flour, almonds and sugar powder.
> view pairingsCheeses
Rogeret des Cévennes
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche. Vivarais.
Soft goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Beef
Beef cheek daube with red wine and braised endive
Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.
> view pairingsDesserts
Hazelnut bavarian cream
Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.
> view pairingsShellfish and Seafood
Baked oysters with a julienne of leek
Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.
> view pairings