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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Prawn risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed mushrooms

Stuffed mushrooms with ham.

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Cold starters

Ham aspic

Slice of ham around an egg in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Desserts

Angel’s food cake

A type of vanilla sponge cake often served covered with red berry coulis and strawberries.

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Freshwater fish

Eel with persillade sauce

Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.

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Cold starters

Provençal 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.
Anchovies, olives, peppers with tomato and Provençal herbs in jelly.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Champagne sauce

Champagne sauce : Champagne with thick crème fraîche, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca tierno

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with white paste.
Ripening : 21 to 60 days.

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Cheeses

Amablu

United States. Minnesota.
Raw cow’s milk blue cheese, pressed but uncooked.
Ripening : 75 days.

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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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Desserts

Biscuits roses de Reims 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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