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Meal families

Cheeses

Young Edam

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 6 weeks.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Raspberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruits, cream, and sometimes jam.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with seafood

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with americaine sauce

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

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Cold starters

Kipper pâté

Served cold.

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Salads

Mesclun with black truffle

Mesclun : mixed salad composed of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves from chicory, oak leaf lettuce, lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, spinach shoots, arugula, escarole, radicchio or aromatic herbs.

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Sheep and Goats

Salt-crusted lamb with broad beans

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated bay scallops in lemon

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

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Black forest cake

Germany.
Traditional German cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) made of several layers of cocoa sponge cake, flavored with kirsch, filled with cherries in syrup and whipped cream, all covered with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

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Cured Meats

Andouille sausage

Pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
Served cold as first course.

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Sauces

Spiny lobster butter

Spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Freshwater fish

Eel with lemon butter

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Coffee mousse

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Poultry

Stuffed goose neck Strasbourg-style

Goose neck stuffed with pork and veal meat, with Cognac, cream and black truffle.
Served hot.

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Cheeses

Montasio fresco

Italy. Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a brushed rind.
Ripening : 2 months maximum.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb and spring garnish

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…

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