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Meal families

Cheeses

Red hawk

United States. California.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a yellow to reddish-orange washed rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Desserts

Coffee charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Cheeses

Kāpiti Kikorangi Triple cream blue

New Zealand. Taranaki.
Triple cream blue soft ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Desserts

Fraisier cake

Cake made with strawberries, sponge cake and cream, usually covered with a layer of marzipan.

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Pork

Pork roast with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

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Cold starters

Duck foie gras 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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Ice cream and sorbets

Spice ice cream

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Pork

Jambonneau confit

Jambonneau : small ham or boneless shank.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted lamb noisette

Noisette : round-shaped piece of meat taken from the leg, loin, or rack.

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Cold starters

Meatloaf with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Sauces

Ivory sauce

Ivory sauce : supreme sauce (chicken velouté with cream) and meat glaze.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Ginger shrimp

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Main meals

Chicken tajine with curry

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster medallion Thermidor

Spiny lobster meat with a béchamel sauce and Cognac, shallot, fish stock and mustard that can be gratinéed.

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Beef

Bordeaux style entrecote with porcini mushrooms

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Beef

Roasted rib steak with hot andalouse sauce

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Hot andalouse sauce : tomato velouté with garlic, parsley, and sweet pepper.

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Cheeses

Ewephoria

Netherlands. Friesland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.
Ripening : 12 months.

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