Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Gnocchi
Mixture of wheat flour and potato semolina or durum wheat poached in water and often gratin in the oven with cheese.
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Cheeses
Ameribella
United States. Indiana.
Semi-soft raw cow's milk cheese with a washed brown orange rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.
Main meals
Lorraine style potée
Soup with slices of toasted bread and vegetables covered with pork.
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Taramasalata
Greece. Turkey.
Specialty based on salted and cured roe (cod or mullet) added with olive oil and fresh cream and lemon.
In France, generally served with blinis.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Black truffle turnover
Puff pastry containing lightly-cooked duck foie gras with black truffle wrapped in prosciutto and flavored with Armagnac, Cognac or Madeira.
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Brabander
Netherlands. North Holland.
Hard pasteurized goat’s milk cheese wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 6 to 9 months.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallop 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.
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Serra da Estrela curado
Portugal. Serra da Estrela.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a rind ocher in color.
Desserts
Blackberry 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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Shrimp tomato
Belgium.
Tomato stuffed with brown shrimp mixed with mayonnaise.
Sauces
Aioli sauce
Provencal sauce.
Emulsion of garlic and olive oil, sometimes with egg yolk and lemon juice.
Desserts
Eggs in snow with pink praline
Eggs in snow : whipped egg whites accompanied by custard, usually topped with caramel.
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Béarnaise sauce
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.
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Idiazabal
Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 60 days minimum.